There is a lot of angst in the US corporate world. They are quite concerned that the renegotiation talks between the US, Canada and Mexico (the three participants in the North American Free Trade Agreement -NAFTA) may not deliver a new agreement that is as lucrative as the old NAFTA. NAFTA has been in place […]
Stop pretending the estate tax has Anything to do with family farmers
The mystique of the family farmer in this country goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson’s model for democracy. Jefferson centered his vision on the yeoman farmer, who, with family labor, worked a small farm and embodied the virtues of honest and hard work. It was an important idea to a new nation that […]