Republicans strongly dislike the Obama Administration's EPA greenhouse gas regulations; they could easily replace this big government solution
with a small government, free market, economically beneficial revenue - neutral carbon tax.
Cameron's repositioning of the party as a compassionate Conservative party,
with small government and low tax roots but progressive social attitudes, has resonated with voters.
Glenn Cooke, his father Gifford and brother Michael launched Kelly Cove Salmon,
with a small government grant and 5,000 salmon hatchlings in two wooden cages.
Simplification will be hard, because someone or some group will almost always end up
with a smaller government benefit.
Not exact matches
The UK capital hopes to lure talent
with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech
small and medium businesses from the
government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.
And all
small businesses that attend will interact
with federal
government officials, local elected leaders, representatives from national businesses and other
small business experts.
The SBA, in partnership
with the GSA, pulls info from SAM to populate the SBA's Dynamic
Small Business Search (DSBS) so that
government agencies — or even private sector corporations — that are interested in a service or product your business offers can search for and find your company.
After a year of infuriating
government shutdowns and mind - boggling health care reform,
small business owners are entering the new year
with confidence.
The summer started
with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the
government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower
small - business tax rate, and ended
with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.
With Finance Minister Bill Morneau set to deliver the budget on March 22,
small business owners are still in the dark about what exactly the
government has in store for them.
The Canadian Medical Association, argued in its pre-budget submission that the
government should maintain access to the
small business deduction for physicians, since they enter the workforce later in life and often
with significant debt, and unlike
small businesses are unable to pass on higher costs to clients.
Stevens adds that if
governments begin penalizing companies
with substantial taxes, then businesses will find alternative (read: shady) ways to make the compensation gap appear
smaller.
Some of these
smaller countries
with more agile
governments — the Netherlands, Israel, Singapore — will have an advantage, because regulation is going to start to become a hindrance for innovation.
Before the SBA funding came through to pump up
small - business involvement, the cluster was serving as an innovation accelerator
with the federal
government.
Approaching the federal bureaucracy can seem daunting, but the cluster offers half - day workshops helping
small businesses learn how to connect
with the right
government officials and how to pitch themselves most effectively.
The company is currently working
with small businesses and merchants across the country, but some of India's larger corporations and
government agencies are also integrating their software systems
with Ezetap.
Government can help by focusing on
small - scale businesses
with an appetite for innovation.
Small Business Saturday also receives
government support,
with representatives across the country — including the president — publicly promoting the day each year.
The problem is that
government procurement officers are simultaneously overworked and under pressure to cut acquisition costs, which discourages due diligence, if not dealing
with small vendors altogether.
The state
government has cast a wide net in its bid to boost defence - related work in Western Australia,
with 16
small businesses — ranging from a landscape gardener in Port Hedland to a signage contractor in Bellevue — sharing in the latest round of defence - specific grants.
Government lenders are traditional lenders working with government arms like the Small Business Administrat
Government lenders are traditional lenders working
with government arms like the Small Business Administrat
government arms like the
Small Business Administration (SBA).
Small business owners are more satisfied
with the federal
government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.
A new report from American Express on
small - business owners doing business
with the U.S.
government shows that active contractors spent almost $ 129,000 in the past year seeking out those opportunities...
«It is one thing for
governments to allow
small anonymous transactions
with virtual currencies; indeed, this would be desirable,» Rogoff wrote at the time.
Two - thirds of young people agree
with a
smaller majority of Americans overall that the
government should make sure people have health care coverage.
He has been making the rounds in Colorado, driving from one
small mountain town to the next, meeting
with county and local
government officials and visiting the facilities in which he hopes to take an ownership stake — so far, two dispensaries and their growing facilities.
Small - business owner: To encourage the
government to hire more Canadians as part of the Economic Action Plan, the budget proposes a hiring credit, which offers a one - year Employment Insurance break of up to $ 1,000 for firms
with premiums below $ 10,001 in 2010.
«The Opposition» is the major first comedy show
with a baked - in acknowledgement of the shift in the conservative - media landscape away from the dogmatic,
small -
government Reagan Republican.
The
government teamed up in April
with the EIF to launch Equifund, the 400 million euro fund - of - funds aimed at startups and other
small companies.
In a town of 17,000 (along
with Seton Hall students) and a
small unpaid governing body and
government, we have over 40 committees, many of which have high turnover and don't meet frequently.
Banks and
government data point to a recovery in
small business loans since the recession,
with loan figures nearly back to their 2008 levels.
With the rise of a
small number of big tech companies — and
governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.
October: A survey of national trends affecting America's gross creative output, including the work that the Fortune 500 and the
government are doing
with innovative
small companies.
Small and medium companies across the country that have contracts
with the prime (think of a parts manufacturer for a car or airplane company) or
with the
government are eligible in the vast majority of cases.
But «when you're talking about
small, medium enterprises, there's a little less pressure — the
government doesn't see that as having any way to shape the economy, or cause issues
with policy,» he said.
In the past five years, the federal
government has signed
smaller deals
with countries like Colombia and Liechtenstein.
In 2010, the Startup America Partnership finally got the US
government to separate the notion of
small businesses
with high growth businesses.
While we are still stuck
with one
government organization — the
Small Business Administration — that tries to help both small businesses and startups, the language around this continues to ev
Small Business Administration — that tries to help both
small businesses and startups, the language around this continues to ev
small businesses and startups, the language around this continues to evolve.
On the one hand, if the lead in cross-border cases is automatically given to the country where the company's headquarters are located, that may encourage companies to establish their European bases in countries
with small regulators (although to be fair, the Irish privacy regulator is beginning to get stepped - up
government funding).
While content on the
government's
Small Business Administration site can overlap
with HealthCare.gov, its blog is worth a read.
The
Small Business Development Center is another
government agency that basically does the same thing as SCORE but
with paid employees and even more educational classes.
Free Consulting SCORE is a
government agency
with the mission to provide resources and expertise to maximize the success of existing and emerging
small businesses.
Now if you have a big business — and I ran Hewlett - Packard and it is a huge business, and we don't like business regulations, but we can deal
with them — but the bigger
government gets and the more complex regulations get, and the more complicated the tax code gets — and all of that is happening — the more difficult it will be for
small business.
SBA - backed 7 (a) loans, which are geared to
small businesses, come
with a
government guarantee to lenders of up to 85 percent against default.
Earlier this week, WIND Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera announced he is interested in opening merger talks
with troubled telecom company and fellow
small player Mobilicity, after the federal
government rejected an application from major player TELUS to acquire Mobilicity's spectrum licenses.
(For all the fights the 2012 budget sought to pick
with the Yankees and the environmentalists, there were a lot of hangdog expressions at Hy's that night among Conservatives who had hoped for real
small -
government conservatism from a majority
government and thought Flaherty had delivered thin gruel.)
«We know that in order to address the range of financial needs within all of our communities, we need to support and work
with the ecosystem of organizations that serve
small businesses,» said Jon Campbell, executive vice president,
government and community relations for Wells Fargo.
Just this month, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said the Harper
government is giving serious thought to more lenient pot laws that would allow cops to ticket anyone caught
with small amounts of pot instead of laying charges.
Keeping on subsidizing southern Ontario businesses and wading into the venture capital game do not exactly square
with Flaherty's
small - c conservative description of
government's proper economic role as «benign and silent.
I live in a state unfriendly to
small business; we can say
with certainty federal
government barely associates to the
small business community.