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Issue at Hand from MyBusiness Magazine
  • NFIB Legal Center Works for You
    06/03/2008
    The NFIB Small Business Legal Center actively pursues legal cases that will help protect much-needed legal reforms. By stopping suits before they are filed, opportunities for unscrupulous attorneys to force small business owners into settlements are limited. Here are a few of our critical wins on this issue.
  • Liability Reform
    06/03/2008
    Ranked the No. 2 problem by small business owners: The cost and availability of liability insurance
  • From Sea to Shining Sea
    04/02/2008
    A look at the immigration debate in several key states
  • Enact Commonsense Immigration Reform
    04/02/2008
    Will Jailing Small Business Owners Make Us Feel Better?
  • Help Wanted
    04/02/2008
    As the immigration debate grows louder, NFIB urges Congress to act--and serves as the voice for small businesses in states that have grown tired of waiting on Washington.
  • Searching for Alternatives
    02/11/2008
    The best intentions don't always produce the best results, and the alternative minimum tax is a shining example. The tax seemed like a good idea when it was established in 1969 to prevent a handful of extremely wealthy Americans from using unfair advantages to evade their fair share of taxes. But in the four decades since the AMT was enacted, its reach has crept from the very wealthy to average, middle-class American taxpayers--many of whom are small-business owners.
  • Your Vote, Your Health Care
    11/30/2007
    What a difference a year makes. By this time next year, Americans will have elected a new president. Between now and then, candidates will debate every aspect of the economy, the war and the environment. And at the top of voters' domestic agenda, including that of small-business owners, is health care.
  • Spending Spree
    09/26/2007
    The unsustainable future of government spending progams in the United States
  • The Rising Cost of Energy
    07/25/2007
    What America's Potential Energy Crisis Means for Your Small Business
  • NFIB Battles Big Labor's Influence
    05/30/2007
    Passing card-check legislation is No. 1 on Big Labor's agenda this year, but it's not the only union-backed bill harmful to small business. Intent on expanding their influence, activists will be pressuring federal and state lawmakers to support other anti-business proposals.
  • No Vote, No Voice
    05/30/2007
    For a decade now, Randy Truckenbrodt has been locked in the fight of his life, trying to save his business from being unionized--and possibly destroyed. Truckenbrodt, owner of Randall Industries, an Elmhurst, Ill.-based company that distributes and leases aerial-lift equipment to contractors, has lost customers and spent countless hours and half a million dollars trying to resolve an endless power struggle for his business.
  • Behind the Rhetoric
    05/30/2007
    Discover some common justifications union proponents use for card-check agreements--and the reality behind their arguments.
  • The State of Health Care
    04/03/2007
    NFIB plays key role in state health-insurance reform proposals
  • Sensible Solutions
    04/03/2007
    NFIB supports market-based reforms that rely more on the power of consumers than the government. Here's a look at some of the reforms NFIB supports.
  • The Perfect Cure?
    04/02/2007
    Why some think government-run health care is the answer to the country's ailing system.