by Fort Collins Chamber | Mar 21, 2012 | Economy, Government & Policy
The role, growth and cost of government and who pays combined is the biggest issue of our times. These issues play themselves out in the daily headlines regarding tax increases on the wealthy, budget cuts, corporate tax cuts, Medicare and Social Security reform, the...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Mar 19, 2012 | Economy, Government & Policy
State and local governments across America continue to cut their workforces and budgets in the face of constricted revenue, according to a story in the March 12 issue of the Wall Street Journal. State governments are facing $47 billion of shortfalls, but that is down...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Mar 16, 2012 | Economy, Government & Policy
Early in the 2012 session of the Colorado Legislature, Governor John Hickenlooper and the board of Pinnacol made a major push to privatize the “insurer of last resort” for workers compensation. Pinnacol as now structured is a quasi-public state-charted...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Jan 3, 2012 | Economy, Government & Policy
A divided state government (Democrats control the Senate and governorship, Republicans have a one-seat majority in the House), an election year, bitter feelings over the recent legislative redistricting, and a need for more budget cuts are the ingredients for an...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Oct 25, 2011 | Economy, Government & Policy
People over 50 will remember the dire predictions in the mid-1980s that the sun was setting on America, eclipsed by an ascendant Japan. We know how that ended, right? The American economy boomed while the Japanese asset price bubble burst, collapsing Japan’s...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Oct 13, 2011 | Economy, Government & Policy
“In a free economy, the pursuit of profits and serving people are one and the same. No one argues that the free enterprise system is perfect, but it’s the closest we’ll come here on Earth.” — Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin...
