by Tanya Fogg Young, The State Some critics of the Columbia Hilton convention center hotel said Friday the city is wrong to pursue financing through state-sourced bonds intended to spur development in more economically distressed areas. Four organizations, including the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce, on Friday questioned Columbia’s efforts to use Jobs-Economic Development […]
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Representative Mac Toole has introduced H.4739 that addresses the issue of state agencies competing with private business. Rep. Toole, a member of the Small Business Chamber’s Board, obtained 28 other co-sponsors to the bill. The bill requires that state agencies get permission from the Budget and Control Board in order to produce goods and services
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We want to hear how much your group health insurance premiums have increased. Can you even afford group health insurance? Send your information to us at sbchamber@scsbc.org. This information will be very important to us in our efforts to push for the Legislature to debate this issue. Our bills in the Senate (S.349) and House
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by Frank Knapp, Jr., SC Primary Health Care Association Newsline In the late summer of 2000 The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce held public forums around the state to hear what was on the minds of small business owners. Consistently at every meeting we heard a very clear message—group health insurance premiums were unaffordable. Three
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State agencies are not required to receive permission from elected state officials to pursue the development of goods and services that compete with the private sector. Consequently, businesses have no protection from unfair and unjustified competition from taxpayer supported public agencies and their related organizations. The most recent egregious example of this problem is the
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By Frank Knapp Jr., Triangle Business Journal Ross Perot coined the phrase “giant sucking sound” in the presidential debates of 1998. He was talking about the jobs he predicted (correctly) that would leave the United States in search of cheaper labor if we passed NAFTA. Today’s giant sucking sound is the $25 billion not going
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MAP Commission Adopts Small Business Chamber’s Concerns and Recommendations On July 7 of this year, The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce went public with data it had obtained from the SC Comptroller General’s Office. Over 1.3 billion of the state’s procurement dollars (approximately 42%) were leaving the state to purchase goods and services every year. The Small Business
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by Frank Knapp, Jr., The Greenville News Gov. Mark Sanford should be applauded for publicly raising the issue of privatizing our institutions of higher education. The decision-makers of these universities have been quietly debating the issue and some institutions have been actively privatizing their facilities through development foundations in preparation for the day when the schools
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Published in The Spartanburg Herald-Journal Sen. John Hawkins, R-Spartanburg, announced Wednesday he will pre-file legislation at the State House to remove unnecessary regulation from small business. He said the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act of 2004 would make state agencies more accountable in the way they regulate small businesses. “Small business is the backbone of
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Published in Press Release Columbia, SC—The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce congratulated Governor Mark Sanford and his Department of Commerce for creating a Small Business Ombudsman position. Commerce announced the appointment of Charles (Chuck) Bundy, a senior staff member in the Business Solutions Division, to the new position on Friday. “We are very pleased
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