Connect With Us
OUR SPONSORS
Archive for September, 2010
September Luncheon: Jim McAlister, Jr and What The Health Care Bill Means To You and Your Business!
Please join us for our September luncheon, held Thursday, September 30th from 11-1 at Maggiano’s Little Italy. Great
networking plus terrific information you can use in your business.
Do You Know What The NEW Health Care Bill Means TO YOU and more importantly . . . What It MEANS TO YOUR BUSINESS? Join us as Jim McAlister, Jr. gives us the information we want and need to know!
Jim McAlister received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Tennessee Technological University in 1977, where he received the Everett Derryberry Award as outstanding senior student. He has had a successful business career as a sales representative with IBM, assistant to the president of HCA Psychiatric Company, Vice President for Marketing and Payor Relations with Treatment Centers of America and LifeLink, a behavioral health insurance program, and for the last twenty years at Rogers Benefit Group, a managing general agency for predominantly small-group healthplans.
He has received numerous industry awards, including the national Healthcare Product Development Award from the American Marketing Association in 1997. He currently serves on the board of the Middle Tennessee Association of Health Underwriters, and has previously served as Education chair for that group. Jim has had a long-term interest in economics and history and in 1999 he began graduated studies in this area, being awarded a Master of Arts degree in History from Norwich University in 2002. His Masters work focused on the economic history of the United States, with emphasis on private property rights. He has taught Political Economy as an adjunct faculty member at Franklin Classical school and has written a number of articles examining the roots of the distortions that exist in American healthcare delivery and financing.
REGISTER TODAY!
Maggiano’s Little Italy is located on West End Avenue and has ample parking including valet beginning at 11AM.
Nashville NAWBO member, Lynn Taylor, in the news . . .
Did you see Nashville NAWBO’s own Lynn Taylor in the Tennessean yesterday? Great article in the Real Estate section! Lynn was the Builder Spotlight. Lynn is the owner of Taylor Made Plans, LLC creating custom additions, renovations and infill home designs that preserve the historic integrity of neighborhoods while offering the modern amenities homeowners expect today, within budget.
Check out the article HERE!
*The Tennessean often has time limits on how long the article links will last so check it out quickly before it goes away!
Obama Proposes Tax Break for Small Businesses : Sept 9, 2010 from Legistative Update
National news impacts us locally many times, and this is a case in point:
As expected, President Obama, during a speech in Ohio September 8th, announced $180 billion in new tax and economic-recovery proposals. The outlined proposals would expand and permanently extend the research and development tax credit that lapsed in 2009; allow businesses to write 100% of their investments in equipment and plants off their taxes through 2011; and pump $50 billion into the economy for highway, rail, airport and other infrastructure projects.
The president proposed extending the current tax rates for households with incomes below $250,000 for couples and $200,000 for individuals, but said the nation could not afford to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers above those cutoffs. Obama also called on Congress to pass the ABA- and ICBA-backed small-business lending bill (H.R. 5297) when it returns next week.