Policy Posts

Shipping Costs Kill 100,000s of Small US Businesses – We Need Shipping Neutrality

Shipping Costs Kill 100,000s of Small US Businesses – We Need Shipping Neutrality

Joschik

Online trading allowed hundreds of thousands to create their small businesses selling directly or via platforms such as hobbyDB to others in the United States and overseas. But shipping costs are now killing these businesses off, in favor of Amazon and maybe some other big corporates that are trying to copy Amazon. There are thousands […]

The SHOP SAFE Act is ill-thought out and will cost all of us, let’s stop it!

The SHOP SAFE Act is ill-thought out and will cost all of us, let’s stop it!

Congress is once again trying to fix a very specific problem with a broad solution (and this one is relevant for you!). We support the SHOP SAFE Act’s underlying goal of protecting consumers from unsafe and defective counterfeit products (who would not?).  The problem is that SHOP SAFE tackles the issue in a way that would […]