Author: Mark Hillman
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GUEST COLUMN: Easy access to entitlements undermines Americans’ work ethic
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933. Although sometimes considered the father of the American entitlement state, FDR understood that our sense of achievement and self-sufficiency comes from our work. Forty years later, another Democrat, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan likewise grasped the degrading affect of welfare on…
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GUEST COLUMN: Sen. Mark Udall’s conflicting views on freedom a tasteless joke
Fortune cookies and Mark Udall have more in common than Colorado’s Democrat U.S. senator might like to admit. You probably know the juvenile prank of reading the message inside a fortune cookie – like “Now is the time to try something new” – and then adding ” . in bed” to give it an off…
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GUEST COLUMN: Bills that encourage job creation
Here’s a little exercise for Colorado business owners, managers or anyone else whose job requires that they keep the bills paid, the doors open, and customers satisfied: • Take a few minutes to read how legislators at the state Capitol want to treat you. • Then suppress the urge to go out and create a…
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GUEST COLUMN: Bills that encourage job creation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here’s a little exercise for Colorado business owners, managers or anyone else whose job requires that they keep the bills paid, the doors open, and customers satisfied: • Take a few minutes to read how…
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GUEST COLUMN: A solution in search of a problem
At a time when state legislators should be doing everything possible to encourage job creation, a bill working its way through the Colorado Senate unfairly paints employers as unreasonable and untrustworthy. Worse still, Senate Bill 3 gives trial lawyers another opportunity to sink their teeth into Colorado’s job creators — extracting “damages” where none exist…
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GUEST COLUMN: Trial lawyers value ‘right to sue’ more than jobs
To hear trial lawyers and their anti-business enablers tell it, the only thing that prevents Colorado employers from literally chaining workers to their desks is the “right to sue” their dastardly bosses. In this fantasy world, trial lawyers never bring frivolous lawsuits and fired employees never file dubious claims motivated but grudges against their former…
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GUEST COLUMN: This November the time for conservatives to break new ground
The Republican Party wasn’t always a conservative party. Waves of conservative insurgency and resurgency during the past 50 years have transformed the Grand Old Party into the only major party with a core constituency that desires individual freedom and limited government. The emergence of TEA (for “taxed enough already”) parties and the 912 Project —…
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Era of big government is … back
The era of big government is back – with a vengeance. President Barack Obama returned to Denver to sign into law his American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the biggest spending bill in history, conservatively priced at $787 billion. In reality, this “stimulus” encourages nothing but government dependency and the belief that you really can get…