Excerpts from a Harvard study on gun ownership and gun control. It’s a fascinating read. They found no correlation between gun ownership and violence. [T]here is no consistent significant positive association between gun ownership levels and violence rates: across time…
We have a broken health care system. People can’t get the help they need, and the broken parts don’t communicate with each other – as witness this story. A woman, married and with a child, got pregnant. Her family’s income…
According to Accounting Today newsletter, the Democrats have resurrected their plan to tax the profits of an S Corporation as payroll. They proposed this a couple of years back, claiming that “millionaires” were using the loophole to avoid payroll taxes.…
Our government has failed us. As we complete our first week of drastically scaled-back government, the impacts can be seen everywhere. On Tuesday, Utah stopped issuing WIC vouchers and closed its health clinics, denying children and pregnant women much-needed food…
What strikes me as a Utah resident is that nearly 10% of Utah’s 2.8 million residents are on food stamps (and federally mandated cuts are coming) And yet Utah has one of the lowest food stamp usage rates in the…
What do fiscal and economic policy have to do with cheesemaking and local food? Quite a bit. First, our money is the basis for exchange. Without a healthy dollar, our customers can’t buy what we sell. (Increasingly we trade rather…
Our government is awash in deficit spending and debt. Our leaders assure us that this is sane fiscal policy. Sure, they quibble over how much to tax and how much to spend, but the truth is, even the Tea Party…
There’s something wrong with our country and hugely stressed society. It’s not just that we twice as much money on Viagra as we do on research to cure Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s not just that, although gun crime is down, the…
I’m an accountant by trade, so numbers and statistics fascinate me. My dad is an accountant, too, so it’s in my blood. One of the issues I watch is the government’s fiscal policy – the management of the federal budget…
A friend and organic farmer notes that if you spray paint designs on cars, no matter how beautiful and copyrighted they may be, if your overspray damages another car, you pay for the damage. Not so with GMO crops –…
