For the second Sunday in a row, The State has given us first hand information regarding Governor Nikki Haley and her administration. As a result of last week’s story, I formerly requested that the Governor and her economic development team meet with the South Carolina Small Business Chamber’s Board of Directors to discuss developing an […]
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October 10, 2011 The Honorable Nikki Haley Governor State House Columbia, SC Dear Governor Haley, In an interview reported in The State yesterday you indicated your desire to revise the South Carolina tax code. Specifically you mentioned that one of the goals of this process would be to phase out the corporate income tax in
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Boeing is here! Yeah! And it only cost the taxpayer about $225,000 per new job. Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad Boeing came to South Carolina just as I’m glad that Amazon.com is building a distribution center here also (just wish we hadn’t thrown all our other retailers under the bus to get Amazon). But
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While the South Carolina Legislature might or might not go back into session this week (but for sure next week), the legislative agenda of The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce is done for this session. But remember that this was the first year of a two year session. So what didn’t get done
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Around midnight last night in Senate, Amazon finally overcame strong opposition to win an exemption from collecting sales tax on in-state purchases. Only the House agreeing to some Senate amendments stands in the way of the retail giant building a new distribution center in Lexington County. While we were on the losing side, the team
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According to newspaper accounts, this past Tuesday night Amazon executive Paul Misener called Representative Kenny Bingham to say that the retail giant was willing to increase the number of jobs and investment in the state to help win House approval of the Amazon.com sales tax deal. This came after over a month of intense lobbying
What’s the value of our advocacy? How about $35 million and 751 jobs! Read More »
Several weeks ago the S.C. House voted overwhelmingly against throwing small retailers across the state under the bus in order for Amazon.com to build a distribution center in Lexington County. The rejection of giving the retail giant the unique exemption from collecting sales tax on in-state sales led to Amazon declaring that they would not build
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The Amazon.com lobbyists must be busy working the phones to our state legislators and emailing them copies of the story in Saturday’s State. “Amazon vote drives off two firms”, screams the headline. The story goes on to quote Lexington County leaders who have been at the fore front in pushing for Amazon.com to be the
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Congratulations to the South Carolina House! Yesterday after nearly two hours of hot debate, Representatives voted not to give Amazon.com an exemption from collecting sales tax on in-state purchases. The vote turned out not to be even close. A clear bi-partisan majority in the House established a new principle for the state’s big business recruitment
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It’s not often in a political debate that a key argument of one side gets exposed as a complete fraud. This is one of those rare times. From the beginning of the Amazon.com controversy it was almost universally accepted that giving the company an exemption from collecting sales tax from in-state sales was a bad
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