Report: 57,000 businesses have posted "guns welcome" signs...

Change...

Via Breitbart: 

Moms Demand has persuaded just five businesses -- Target, Chipotle, Jack in the Box, Chili's, and Sonic -- to ask customers to leave their guns at home. They were also able to pressure a sixth business, Starbucks, into asking open carry practitioners not to be so flamboyant about visibly carrying guns in their stores.
That's a total of six businesses, which is 56,994 less than the current total of those who are embracing guns in their bars, restaurants and other businesses.
The Washington Times reports that one of the businesses welcoming guns is Chicken Express in Bossier City, Louisiana. That particular Chicken Express did a special, one-time Saturday night give-away where patrons "who showed up with a concealed carry license... received a free combo meal." The store owner said it was the busiest Saturday night his restaurant ever had.
Other businesses on the "guns welcome" list include Leesburg, Virginia's The Cajun Experience. They have a weekly Wednesday night special encouraging patrons to come with a handgun either concealed or carried openly. 

Tweet of the Day: Confirmation the White House thinks you didn't build your business...

Check out the term "Our businesses" in this tweet. 

FACT: Our businesses added 1.4 million jobs over the first half of this year—more than in any first half since 1999: http://t.co/hBd2gnl89d
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 7, 2014

Obamacare to cost large employers $4800 or more per employee...

Higher prices for goods and services will be passed on to you and me...

Via Daily Caller:

Large employers are looking at up to $186 billion in Obamacare costs over the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday.
The American Health Policy Institute, an industry-run group, estimates direct and indirect Obamacare costs will cost companies with 10,000 or more employees between $151 billion and $186 billion over the next ten years.
That amounts to$4,800 and $5,900 in additional costs per employee.
The study, authored by former deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Tevi Troy and the institute’s chief economist Mark Wilson, found that businesses will have to adjust their services due to the costs.
“Cost increases in the range of $163 million to $200 million per large employer over the course of a decade will not be overlooked by CEOs, CFOs, or Boards of Directors,” the authors conclude. “Employers have a significant incentive to make fundamental changes to their health offerings as a result of the ACA.”
Keep on reading…

Venezuela’s socialist government starts arresting businessmen...

Barack Obama is most envious...

Nov 14 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government has arrested more than 100 “bourgeois” businessmen in a crackdown on alleged price-gouging at hundreds of shops and companies since the weekend, President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.
“They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!” Maduro thundered in the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. “We have more than 100 of the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment.”
The successor to the late Hugo Chavez also said his government was preparing a law to limit Venezuelan businesses’ profits to between 15 percent and 30 percent.
Officials say unscrupulous companies have been hiking prices of electronics and other goods more than 1,000 percent. Critics say failed socialist economic policies and restricted access to foreign currency are behind Venezuela’s runaway inflation.
“Goodyear has to lower its prices even more, 15 percent is not enough, the inspectors have go there straightaway,” Maduro said in his evening address, sending officials to check local operations of the U.S.-based tire manufacturer.

Fail: Chris Christie's New Jersey one of ten worst states for business climate

The rating is tied to tax rates. Christie's BFF Barack Obama must be proud.

Via WaPo:

Northeastern states dominate the bottom 10, thanks to higher taxes on corporations and complicated tax codes. New York came in last place, while Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland all fell in the bottom 10. California, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Minnesota all have tax rates high enough to qualify for the bottom 10.
Expect the Republican Governors Association to celebrate the rankings: Seven of the top 10 states are run by Republican governors, while seven of the bottom 10 states are run by Democrats.
The rankings won’t stay static next year. Drenkard said a package of tax reforms signed by Gov. Pat McCrory (R) earlier this year will move North Carolina out of the bottom 10; had those tax rules been in effect by the July 1 beginning of the fiscal year, North Carolina would have qualified for 17th place on the list.

Obama advance his plan to destroy business through increased regulation...

Barack Obama's hatred of business knows no bound. He must truly be a Socialist at heart. In the latest attack on business, Obama is using the global warming fraud.

Via Bloomberg News:

President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they have to consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways.

The result could be significant delays for natural gas- export facilities, ports for coal sales to Asia, and even new forest roads, industry lobbyists warn.

“It’s got us very freaked out,” said Ross Eisenberg, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based group that represents 11,000 companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Southern Co. (SO) The standards, which constitute guidance for agencies and not new regulations, are set to be issued in the coming weeks, according to lawyers briefed by administration officials.

In taking the step, Obama would be fulfilling a vow to act alone in the face of a Republican-run House of Representatives unwilling to pass measures limiting greenhouse gases. He’d expand a Nixon-era law that was intended to force agencies to assess the effect of projects on air, water and soil pollution.

Amusing: Other states station full-time business recruiters in California...

With the high taxes and smothering regulations, recruiting businesses to leave California must be a cushy job...

Via the WSJ:

Nevada is one of a growing number of states stationing full-time business recruiters in California, as the nation’s economy recovers and the competition for jobs heats up. Economic-development bureaus seek to attract business and jobs from wherever they can, but California has become a particularly attractive target lately thanks to the prospect of rising taxes and new regulations that other states think could make companies there easier to lure away—an idea disputed by California officials. …

Now, states that have traditionally staffed external business-development offices only overseas are adding manpower in the Golden State. It isn’t the only place under siege—Virginia’s Fairfax County, for example, has also opened an office in Boston to lure biotech firms—but many are zeroing in on California, betting that new policies going into effect there will begin to push more businesses and entrepreneurs out. …

Companies rarely relocate purely at a recruiter’s suggestion. But states are hoping to capture the attention of Silicon Valley venture capitalists as well as California’s large number of entrepreneurs and CEOs, and to make sure they are on the shortlist for any expansions or relocations.

Bear-hugging Obama loving pizzaman fears boycott...

Scott Van Duzer claims to be a Republican who voted for Obama in 2008 and plans to vote for him again this year. If you vote Obama this year, you aren't a Republican. Change your party designation. If I lived in Florida, I would look for a pizza shop that wasn't run by a fake republican. I hate fakes.

Via Politico:

The owner of a Florida pizza shop says people are boycotting his business because he bear-hugged President Barack Obama on Sunday.

“People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Scott Van Duzer, 46, told POLITICO. “There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”

The owner of Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Fort Pierce, Fla., said that both Democrats and Republicans are welcome in his store. But he also said he thinks Mitt Romney’s running mate Rep. Paul Ryan — whose sculpted abs are thanks to intense P90X training sessions — would lose to the president in a workout battle.

MSNBC Host suffers meltdown talking about business owners (Video)

The liberal left really hate business owners and think they are evil...

Image of the Day: Business Owner Responds to Obama's "You didn't build your business" remark

Well done...

(Via FOX)

9% fewer businesses now offer medical coverage since Obamacare passes, HHS Sec. Sebelius: "The private market is in a death spiral."

But..but...Obama promised we could keep our health insurance if we like our health insurance...

The truth is Democrats planned to destroy the private health insurance market all along. The set a bomb in Obamacare.

That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care.

This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen in quite some time. Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ‘death panel’ found in Obamacare—but not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry.

REP. PETER ROSKAM: How about when the president said you can keep your health care coverage if you like it? And yet, the reality is, according to Bloomberg at least, 9 percent fewer businesses are offering medical coverage than in 2010. There, the rhetoric didn’t meet the reality, did it?

SEC. KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: Well again, Congressman, what you’re seeing – it wouldn’t have mattered if we had passed the Affordable Care Act or not. The private market is in a death spiral.

Government Fail: Kennewick Man Auctions Company Because Taxes Are Too High

Bob Bertsch's construction business has been taxed to the breaking point. I hope he runs for public office. We need more elected officials who understand businesses are being taxed out of business.

KENNEWICK -- It took Bob Bertsch 25 years to build his construction business and just a day for it all to go away.

Bertsch's Kennewick-based Ashley-Bertsch Group went on the auction block Friday at 9 a.m. By 4 p.m., Booker Auctions had sold off almost two dozen vehicles and trailers, tons of power tools and supplies, even the gas-fired fireplace in the office.

Bertsch, 65, said he is down-sizing because the tax burden got too expensive to stay in business.

After a quarter of a century of building a successful enterprise at 5903 W. Metaline Ave., Bertsch sat back and watched as about 200 people bid on what was left of his company -- boxes of electrical parts, a drafting desk, high-end office furniture, TVs, computers and even the phone system.

Anything that could be carried away, was.

"I am tired of carrying all the tax load," Bertsch said. "I renew 13 licenses here every year just so I can spend money in this city."

Obama: Raising Taxes On Rich Will Encourage Rick To Keep Their Businesses In America or Something

This is classic Obama sans teleprompter. He is a sputtering idiot. The idea that raising taxes on the wealthy and businesses in order to reduce potholes in the road will attack businesses is the dumbest argument in many years.

Socialist-in-Chief tells business they have to spread their wealth

President Obama explains to businesses corporate profits "Have to be shared by American workers." There is nothing wrong with a business sharing profits with workers, but that is not their main goal. Profits should be invested in capitol equipment, new infrastructure and growth. That is how jobs are created. Of course, President Obama is totally clueless because he has never ran a business in his life. His main occupation in life has been spreading tax dollars to his constituents.

Obama Encourages Employees to Sue Their Bosses

In Obama's weekly address Saturday, he said business had an obligation to grow the economy. Meanwhile, in an unprecedented move, he is encouraging employees who have complaints to sue their bosses.

In an unprecedented and controversial move, the White House has launched a new program at the Department of Labor which will refer workers who have complaints about their bosses to a toll free number at the American Bar Association, where they can get a lawyer to work on their case on a contingency fee basis.

More than 40,000 workers annually contact the Department of Labor with complaints about their bosses. But Labor can't get to all of them, an estimated 10%, because of budget constraints, the White House says. So the White House has instead launched a program for "unresolved complainants" with the ABA. Workers will now be provided a toll-free number that connects them with ABA lawyers nationwide who are experienced in things like alleged workplace abuses of minimum wage, overtime and family medical leave laws.

When Biden asked business owner how much he owed him, the owner responded: “Nothing, just lower our taxes.” (video)

When Biden asked Kopp’s Frozen Custard stand owner how much he owed him, the owner responded,

“Nothing, just lower our taxes.”

Gaffing Joe managed to keep quit for once. He ignored the business owner and walked away. No surprise there. Team Obama has been ignoring business owners since they took office in 2009.

Biden Embarrased By Custard Stand Owner: "Lower Our Taxes"

Survey reveals businesses will cut benefits and employees under Obamacare

President Obama and Democrats claim Obamacare will reduce costs. Most Americans are suspicious of cost reduction claims made by politicians. Mandatory coverage, coverage of preexisting conditions, mandated increased preventive care and other provisions will force the cost of health care insurance higher. What will businesses do if this happens? A new survey reveals they will reduce benefits, raise prices for customers and cut employees.

From Business Wire:

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With health care reform efforts ramping up after the summer break, many of the nation’s employers are focusing on the action in Congress and plan to adjust their benefit strategies based on how final legislation affects their costs, according to a survey of 433 HR and benefit executives from midsize and large organizations conducted by professional services firm Towers Perrin. Employers say they will not absorb any additional costs that result from reform and plan to take actions to avoid doing so, including reducing benefits, raising prices for customers and/or reducing head count.

Under a pay-or-play mandate, 29% would dump their employees into the public-option.

Among the full survey group, employers expect they would respond to a pay-or-play mandate in the following ways:

* 37% of employers would provide company-sponsored health coverage that substantially exceeds the standard.
* 29% of employers would discontinue company-sponsored health coverage and pay the assessment if the per-employee costs of payments to the federal government were substantially lower than their current costs.
* 26% of employers would provide company-sponsored health coverage at the level of the minimum standard required.

California Demands Businesses Pay Taxes on Worthless IOUs

California issued $682 million in IOUs. Of course, banks won't accept the IOUs and California won't take them either. California does expect businesses to pay taxes on them now. This sounds like a story that would be found on "The Onion." Unfortunately, the entire government of California has become insane.

From Courthouse News Service:

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Small businesses that received $682 million in IOUs from the state say California expects them to pay taxes on the worthless scraps of paper, but refuses to accept its own IOUs to pay debts or taxes. The vendors' federal class action claims the state is trying to balance its budget on their backs.
Lead plaintiff Nancy Baird filled her contract with California to provide embroidered polo shirts to a youth camp run by the National Guard, but never was paid the $27,000 she was owed. She says California "paid" her with an IOU that two banks refused to accept - yet she had to pay California sales tax on the so-called "sale" of the uniforms.
The class consists mostly of small business owners, many of whom rely on income from government contracts to keep afloat. They say California has used them as "suckers" as it looks for a way to bankroll its operations while avoiding its own financial obligations.