This week a Federal Circuit Court made a ruling that will turn the Internet into cable TV—for sale to the highest bidder. Internet providers like Verizon, Time Warner Cable and AT&T will now be able to extort fees from any business that wants to speed up access to its website versus their competitor’s or even […]
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In May of 2011 the U.S. House passed a bill that would have prevented small businesses from having access to health insurance tax credits available under Obamacare or forced them to change health insurance plans. The issue was health services related to any type of procedure related to abortions. I participated in a press conference
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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber launches SCBARS (South Carolina Businesses Acting on Rising Seas) Phase 2 today. The below story from Climate Central demonstrates the importance of small businesses being involved on this issue. Read more about SCBARS at SCBARS.org. The Front Lines of Climate Change: Charleston’s Struggle by Bobby Magill Climate Center January
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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Last year the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) was very active in the state advocating for the interests of our state’s small businesses. The advocacy was both legislative and non-legislative. Non-Legislative Advocacy Fighting to keep utility rates low In March, Duke Energy filed for
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With House Republicans set to launch another year of attacks on government regulations in the name of small businesses, it’s nice to see reports on what small businesses really want Congress to do. J.D. Harrison of The Washington Post published comments from small business owners on what they would like to see Congress do in
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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 the search for cheaper labor if we passed NAFTA. Today’s giant sucking sound is the $25 billion not going into our economy if Congress doesn’t
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California wants consumers to know that a chemical used in some kids products are known carcinogens. Toxic chemical diisononyl phthalate (DINP), manufactured by Exxon Mobil and other petrochemical companies, is being added to the California list of chemicals known to cause cancer, known as Proposition 65. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
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South Carolina state officials are reported to have been secretively putting together an incentive package to lure Boeing into manufacturing its new 777X jet in the Palmetto state. In addition to the prestige of expanding Boeing’s presence and employment in the state (which has already cost South Carolina $570 million in incentives to date), 2000
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Job-killing regulations. How many times have we heard this rhetoric from big businesses opposing new regulations while pretending that they are concerned about small businesses? Yet polls of small business owners find that most understand the need for regulations. I outlined the results of one of these recent polls in an opinion editorial in The
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Good news from our friends at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) even if they don’t think it is good news. According to a non-random survey of 921 small business owners and operators released today by the NFIB, “64 percent reported that they pay more for insurance premiums per employee in 2013 than they
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