{"id":4564,"date":"2010-04-01T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:52:36","slug":"supreme-courts-citizens-united-decision-may-make-business-viable-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4564\/supreme-courts-citizens-united-decision-may-make-business-viable-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court&#8217;s Citizens United Decision May Make Business Viable Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/caterpillar-claims-health-care-reform-would-hit-them-for-100-million-2010-3 \" target=\"_blank\">ongoing write downs<\/a> in the wake of Obamacare, and the appointment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/01\/business\/01labor.html \" target=\"_blank\">two majority making union lawyers<\/a> to the National Labor Relations Board, many in the private sector could be excused if they pine for the days when business was usual.\u00a0 Add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6284M120100309 \" target=\"_blank\">cap and trade<\/a> to the mix, and it\u2019s entirely possible that Progressives imagine profit to be just another word for unclaimed tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>So thank goodness for the Supreme Court\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotuswiki.com\/index.php?title=Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Citizens United<\/em> decision<\/a> restoring First Amendment speech rights to groups as well as individuals just in time for the 2010 midterm elections.\u00a0 Since the Obama Administration is focused on several other toxic experiments in social engineering, any substantive legislative response to <em>Citizens United<\/em> is unlikely until next year.\u00a0 Thank goodness.\u00a0 In the meantime, businesses and the people who give them life have a unique opportunity to use their constitutional right to free speech in support of another pillar of the American Experiment: the free market.<\/p>\n<p>One commercial I\u2019d like to see features several different people providing the kinds of services that Progressives love to claim for government.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t before, check out the concepts behind <a href=\"http:\/\/minuteclinic.com\/en\/USA\/About\/ \" target=\"_blank\">CVS\u2019 MinuteClinic<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipp.org\/about-kipp \" target=\"_blank\">KIPP Academy<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grameenamerica.com\/How-We-Work\/Microfinance.html \" target=\"_blank\">Grameen America<\/a> microfinance bank.\u00a0 They and many others prove daily that \u2013 if given enough space \u2013 the free enterprise system is the quickest, best, and most sustainable way to enhance wealth and well being, for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the ongoing write downs in the wake of Obamacare, and the appointment of two majority making union lawyers to the National Labor Relations Board, many in the private sector could be excused if they pine for the days when business was usual.\u00a0 Add cap and trade to the mix, and it\u2019s entirely possible that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,100,102,1048,1050,1049,35,1051],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-citizens-united","tag-free-market","tag-grameen-america","tag-kipp-academy","tag-minute-clinic","tag-obamacare","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4566,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}