Tetra Images Tetra Images/Newscom Today, a growing number of small business owners are unintentionally finding themselves on the wrong side of the law. Under a statute aimed at identifying organized crime, small businesses and farmers are being prosecuted for ordinary business transactions. Fortunately, Congressman Andy Harris (R–MD) is attempting to fix that. The federal government… Read more »
The Senate’s immigration-reform legislation could be released as early as Thursday, followed by a weeks of debate and amendments by early May, a congressional aide told Fox News on Tuesday. Source: FOXNews.com
Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, now the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Tuesday that his former colleagues’ largely secret negotiations about immigration reform are troubling. A bipartisan group, dubbed the “Gang of Eight,” has been spearheading immigration reform efforts for months, and no legislative text has been presented to date. When it… Read more »
Peter Orszag probably thought he was doing his old boss, President Obama, a favor when he penned this op-ed for Bloomberg, arguing that the chained CPI really, maybe, probably won’t be that big of a benefit cut, and that “the difference between the chained CPI and the standard CPI has been diminishing. That means the… Read more »