Small Business Advocacy Blog

SCE&G is asking the Public Service Commission for an overall 5.66% increase on electric rates, which would include a 3.3% hike on small businesses. In 2002, SCE&G was granted an 8% increase on small business rates after The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce intervened to protest the 14% hike the company originally requested. The

The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce is very concerned about the issue of public bodies producing goods and services and offering them to the private sector in competition with business. It is absolutely unfair for a taxpayer-supported agency to take market share and jobs away from the very small business entrepreneurs and their employees

The Small Business Chamber is a strong defender of property rights. It has encouraged local government to use incentives instead of restrictive zoning to address development issues. The Small Business Chamber has also supported legislation to protect private property, assure fair market compensation for private property, and restrain local governments from enacting regulations that exceed

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