The more than 690,000 small businesses that operate in Colorado remain resilient despite the challenges of the last two years. Our state continues to see significant small business growth, largely due to business-friendly policies that contribute to building a prosperous and equitable economy. The contributions small businesses make to our state’s economy promise to grow even stronger as a result of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Act will lower healthcare and energy costs for small businesses, build community wealth, and level the playing field between small businesses and very large corporations.
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Tackling Inflation by Rewarding the Rich is a Fool’s Errand
British Prime Minister Liz Truss recently resigned after just 45 days in office, disgraced by her own economic prescriptions. There’s a lesson here for the United States, a nation beset by similar economic troubles.
The Shomer: Hitler and the Nazi Party Were Fascists. Full Stop.
Holocaust revision is antisemitism.
Republican ‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse
My wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached an all-time high between this year and last.
John Kellner Can’t Be Trusted on Abortion Rights
America has been given a hard lesson in how fragile individual rights can be in the hands of ideological actors in positions of power. Just four months ago, abortion was a constitutional right in America. Today, thanks to six conservative judges on the Supreme Court, it is not. But the hardest lesson came in the form of false promises made during the Senate confirmation hearings of these judges over the past thirty years, most infamously by Justice Brett Kavanaugh who vowed that he considered Roe v. Wade to be “settled law” before voting to trash it.
Raise Corporate Taxes, Not Interest Rates
The New York Times recently pointed to car dealerships as an example of a trend that has defined the pandemic era. With high demand and new cars in short supply, dealerships have gotten used to charging higher prices and making record profits at the expense of consumers — and they are unlikely to bring prices down on their own.
The Shomer: Kanye’s Antisemitic Rants Are Unhinged, But Tucker Carlson’s Editing is Unconscionable
This is a follow-up to the column published yesterday, The Shomer: Ye, Though I Walk Through the Valley of Death-Con 3. For clarity’s sake, it’s a good idea to start there and then read this.