New York’s Overmanaged Farmers Are Suffering By: Dan Smith Many New York farmers are hurting, as they are across the nation. The USDA estimates that 42,000 farms have folded in the past four years—many in New York. This is the largest agricultural downturn since the 1980’s and second largest since the Great Depression. Many are […]
For Immediate Release January 2018 Filing period shows Sharpe outraising GOP candidates more than 5-to-1. NEW YORK, New York, January 18th, 2018 – The New York Gubernatorial Campaign of Larry Sharpe (L) outraised all Republican candidates combined by over five times, according to the New York State Board of Elections. The GOP candidate who filed with the […]
Consumers Decide What the Minimum Wage Is New York has been escalating its Minimum Wage rate. But consumers are having their say. In many cases, they are reminding us that the real minimum wage is $0.00—meaning that if consumers won’t pay, workers lose their jobs . . . and maybe their futures. By: Dan Smith […]
New York Licensure Laws – Time to Revisit and Replace How New York can review our costly licensure laws and enact smart alternatives in order to drive down costs, improve access to service and open up real job opportunities for New Yorkers By: Dan Smith More and more, you need permission from the government to […]
Albany’s Addiction to Unfunded Mandates By: Dan Smith If Albany has rules for us to follow, why shouldn’t they have to raise the tax revenue to pay for them, too? Unfunded mandates, what are they? It’s tough to come up with a good analogy. It’s kind of like your landlord showing up at your apartment […]
New York Needs Something Different By: Aaron Segal Since 2010, New York has lost over one million people. It’s losing more every year. In 2015, it fell below Florida. Even adjusted for inflation, the NY State budget has increased by 20 billion dollars a year. Many of New York’s metro areas, such as Binghamton, Syracuse, […]
When the Government Fails, Don’t Blame the Market By: Aaron Segal In the United States, the land of the free, the champion of capitalism, and the pinnacle of innovation, you have to ask your competitors for permission to start a business. Specifically, a business that provides medical treatment to people. If you want to start […]
Healthcare: Less System Means Better, Cheaper Healthcare By: Dan Smith Our healthcare system is a mess. Anyone with eyes can see it. Everyone agrees the system is too expensive, too complex and access to care is, at best, uneven. While many have proposed tweaks to fix parts or providing yet more public money, few have […]
People often support high taxes and extensive regulations intended to make the market “fair” for small businesses to be able to compete with mega corporations. But what is often ignored is that those high taxes and extensive regulations make very little difference to giant companies, but they are always a strain on small businesses. Huge […]