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Gibson Guitar CEO Blasts Obama for Federal Raid, Persecution
"Gibson Guitar is an American icon. Musicians ranging from blues legend B.B. King to rock stars with Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith have used its guitars."
...."Gibson chairman and chief executive Henry Juszkiewicz, himself a conservationist devoted to preserving natural resources, testified in Washington last week about the ordeal. He also visited Heritage to recount the story and how it is illustrative of Washington’s overreach."
STOCK Act's expansive jurisdiction could lead to abuse of power "For example, does a local legislator who owns a gas station have a financial conflict when he votes on a transportation bill that would repair a highway or a bridge in his home state?"
The Worst Thing that Anybody Can Do to You is Take Away Your Freedom "Suppose that for the entirety of those twelve years you had always packaged your shipments using plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes. Suppose that there is no U.S. law requiring you to use anything other than plastic.
Pizza shop owner's $5G fine for shirt gaffe spurs push for appeal process "But the Empire State still has a way to go if Christian King's experience is any indication.
Gibson Guitar CEO Blasts Obama for Federal Raid, Persecution
"Gibson Guitar is an American icon. Musicians ranging from blues legend B.B. King to rock stars with Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith have used its guitars."
...."Gibson chairman and chief executive Henry Juszkiewicz, himself a conservationist devoted to preserving natural resources, testified in Washington last week about the ordeal. He also visited Heritage to recount the story and how it is illustrative of Washington’s overreach."
STOCK Act's expansive jurisdiction could lead to abuse of power "For example, does a local legislator who owns a gas station have a financial conflict when he votes on a transportation bill that would repair a highway or a bridge in his home state?"
The Worst Thing that Anybody Can Do to You is Take Away Your Freedom "Suppose that for the entirety of those twelve years you had always packaged your shipments using plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes. Suppose that there is no U.S. law requiring you to use anything other than plastic.
"It would never occur to you that you might be charged with a federal crime and sentenced to over 8 years in federal prison because a third federal agency, the National Marine Fishery Service, decided that you had violated another nation’s obscure–and invalid–regulation requiring cardboard rather than plastic."
Pizza shop owner's $5G fine for shirt gaffe spurs push for appeal process "But the Empire State still has a way to go if Christian King's experience is any indication.
"King is still shaking his head at the $5,500 fine he's facing for failing to provide enough polo shirts to employees in his pizza shops." H/T to Neal Boortz who included this with it:
Small businesses fear government ...."A recent Gallup Poll shows that 85% percent of small business owners say that they are currently not looking for any new workers."
...."And here’s one more interesting stat: 71% of small businesses surveyed said that revenues from sales wouldn’t justify hiring additional workers. The cost of employing people, thanks to government regulations, is not worth it to an employer, even if they are successful at generating revenue." ((Emphasis added)
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