The Power To Derail An Entrepreneur

The Institute for Justice has put together a great series called “The Power of One Entrepreneur,” which demonstrates how much can be accomplished through creativity and hard work. What it also shows, though, is how intrusive government at all levels can make it impossible for small business to thrive and create jobs.

Take one example:

Funeral home and cemetery owner Kim Powers Bridges from Knoxville, Tenn., who battled bureaucrats in her home state of Oklahoma where she wanted to sell caskets online. Unsuccessful in that fight, she grew a brick-and-mortar business in Tennessee and now has holdings in nine states from the Gulf Coast to New Mexico and Colorado. Read about the dramatic lengths this entrepreneur went to in order to recover and restore the remains of those entrusted to her after Hurricane Katrina hit her newly purchased Mississippi cemetery.

You can read about her story here.

Thanks to the Institute for Justice for highlighting these critical stories, which are reminders that we must halt the assault on free enterprise if our nation and its workers are to be prosperous again.