In case you missed Wednesday afternoon’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, all five of our Republican members cast a vote that would result in either small businesses losing health insurance tax credits or forcing them to change health insurance plans. H.R. 3 passed largely along party lines. All of these elected leaders—Joe Wilson, […]
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I met Zach Carter, a young journalist with the Huffington Post, back in April. We had lunch at a trendy deli in DC with David Levine (American Sustainable Business Council), Scott Klinger (Wealth for the Common Good) and Chuck Collins (Institute for Policy Studies). While we couldn’t get Zach interested in writing about tax haven
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Today the U.S. House might vote on H.R.3., legislation which would negatively impact small busiesses in their ability to obtain health insurance tax credits. Call your congressman today and ask him to vote NO on H.R. 3. Below is my editorial that ran in The Hill’s Congress Blog on May 2, 2011 House Member Name- DC
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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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The editorial below is from the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Amazon insists on tax breaks that help it compete against other retailers Sunday, April 24, 2011 Imagine you own a small retail business. You’ve been selling books, cameras, auto parts or some other product for years. You’ve earned your clientele, paid your taxes and hired local employees. In the
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Taxpayers just got screwed again by big, U.S.-based multinational companies. The overseas tax havens they use to avoid paying their fair share in taxes cost the average U.S. taxpayer $434 in 2010 according to a just released report. South Carolina tax payers each paid $204 additional federal taxes so that these multinational companies could pay little
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The Senate Finance Committee room was packed yesterday by Lexington County supporters of Amazon.com’s request to be exempted from collecting sales tax for sales made to South Carolina residents in exchange for building a new distribution center in that county. The room was also filled with lobbyists hired by Amazon.com to move its legislation forward.
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Last week legislation was introduced in both the South Carolina House and Senate to exempt Amazon.com from collecting sales tax on sales to South Carolina residents from its proposed distribution center in Lexington County. The bills have an uphill fight. My earlier blogs lay out the arguments against the Amazon deal:April 5th–Selling Small Businesses down the
