New York Has Tried to Kill off Cryptocurrencies—We Shouldn’t Let Them Embracing the Future of Transactions By Dan Smith Most people don’t know much about cryptocurrencies. They know even less about blockchain. But a lot of people have heard about Bitcoin—it’s that computer money that made some geeks multimillionaires in 2017, but then its price […]
Let’s Support Main Street Fewer Rules, More Businesses—It’s Really as Simple as That By: Dan Smith New York gubernatorial candidate Larry Sharpe released a campaign video of him walking through his old neighborhood in New York City. Sharpe describes how his neighborhood has changed. Many of the small, mom-and-pop retailers have disappeared, leaving a mixture […]
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 […]
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 […]
Energy Firms Hold New York Taxpayers Hostage; Cuomo Pays the Ransom by Dan Smith If energy policy makes your eyes roll back into your head, I get it. And if all the regulations, bans, subsidies, taxes combined with all the different forms of energy leave you confused, I get that, too. It’s likely by design. […]