Statehouse Report June 29, 2018 By Frank Knapp Jr., special to Statehouse Report President Trump has defended his desire to open all the country’s federal offshore waters to drilling for oil by saying that the United State must have energy dominance over all other nations. But a recent Republican proposal…
A Lost Opportunity to Help Small Business
The American Prospect Summer 2018 By Chuck Collins Where’s My Tax Cut? Despite the claims about small business, the Tax Act is heavily tilted toward large corporations. The small-business community is all too familiar with being used as a prop for tax cuts for the wealthy. From estate tax repeal…
Hicks column: A telling sign that South Carolina attitudes on offshore drilling have shifted
Charleston Posts and Courier June 24, 2018 By Brian Hicks In at least one way, South Carolina’s climate has changed noticeably. It’s nothing you can detect with thermometers or barometers, wind gauges or rain gauges. But it’s real. The best way to measure it is through politics. During a GOP…
Important recent development on rolling back SCE&G rates
SCE&G electric rates that have risen 18% since 2009 to pay for the construction financing costs of the now abandoned nuclear plants in Fairfield County. Ratepayers have been forced to pay about $2 billion in extra charges on their electric bills because of this failed project. From the very beginning…
You aren’t getting that $4000 raise but instead a cut to Medicare and Social Security
Six months ago Congress passed a major tax bill that President Trump eagerly signed with a promise that the average American family would get a $4000 raise due to their taxes being cut and raises or bonuses from their employers. Employers were supposed to pass on much of their tax…
Labor Department rules expand AHPs, in further blow to Obamacare
MultiBriefs: Exclusive June 21, 2018 The Trump administration’s Department of Labor on June 19 issued a final rule that lets groups of small businesses offer Association Health Plans (AHPs), which are health insurance plans that sidestep some provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. America’s Health Insurance Plans…
ACTION ALERT and Newsletter
Newsletter June 21, 2018 ACTION ALERT!!! Legislature Meets Next Week on SCE&G Rates and Regulatory Reform The SCE&G/Santee Cooper nuclear plants debacle that has dominated the news and legislature this year has resulted in this….NOTHING! We have one last chance to tell our legislators to quit talking and making excuses…
Sea level rise could put thousands of Beaufort County homes at risk, study says
Hilton Head Island Packet June 20, 2018 By T. Michael Boddie And Alex Kincaid Thousands of Beaufort County property owners may want to tread lightly. A continued rise in sea level is expected to put coastal properties at risk of chronic flooding, not just by the end of the century,…
Opinion: Feeling Confused by the New Tax Law’s Small Business Provision? You’re Not Alone.
Entrepreneur June 20, 2018 The IRS charges 5 percent interest on underpayments, so miscalculating a quarterly payment could have serious ramifications. But what if you don’t know what that quarterly payment should be? By Anne Zimmerman, Guest Writer, Founder and Owner, Zimmerman & Co. CPAs I’ve been a small business…
Opinion: Corporate Tax Cuts Are Unpopular With Voters
Inside Sources, June 20, 2018 Mason City Globe Gazette (IA), June 22, 2018 Dayton Daily News, June 25, 2018 The Progress-Index (VA), June 28, 2018 Palm Beach Post, July 2, 2018 by Frank Knapp Jr. This month, an NBC/WSJ poll of registered voters in swing congressional House districts found that a candidate’s…