“Major insurers around the country are reporting that a growing number of small businesses are signing up to give their workers health benefits, a sign of potential progress for the nation’s battered healthcare system.” (Los Angeles Times, 12-27-10) The results are coming in and, as expected by those of us who supported health care reform […]
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Below are some excerpts from an opinion editorial by former South Carolina U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings (1966-2005) that ran in today’s Charleston Post and Courier. Never one to mince words, Mr. Hollings lays the blame for our economic condition on the “free traders”. In his opinion, resurrecting our country’s manufacturing is the key to our future. In
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There are thousands and thousands of employees across the country who have something to be very thankful for this Thanksgiving—new employer sponsored health insurance. According to Bernstein Research there has been a 14 percent increase in businesses with fewer than 10 employees offering health insurance to their workers compared to last year. The authors of
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I was a little pre-occupied this week so I’m late with this blog.A little thing like an election sucked some energy out of me as it did most folks. But I was involved with some positive activities. My declaration expressing support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas was filed along with
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The nonprofit, membership-driven South Carolina Small Business Chamber will officially be supporting an IRS complaint against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We, along with other business organizations, are questioning potential violations of exemptions under the federal tax law in the U.S. Chamber’s conduct of lobbying and campaign funding. More on this later. Below is a
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All those angry voters in the country who are worried about foreign and multi-national corporations influencing our government and the shipping of American jobs overseas will probably end up voting the way those foreign corporations want them to vote. A new report shows that donations from foreign corporations are being funneled into this year’s Congressional campaign
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Stacy Mitchell is with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. She has an opinion editorial in the last edition of Business week dealing with an issue that I have blogged about many times. The U.S. Chamber and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) are not representing the interests of small businesses on many issues. For six
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During the debate on health care reform, a familiar theme of the opponents was that it would increase taxes on small businesses. Of course, that was just fear mongering in an attempt to protect the insurance industry because there are no tax increases on small businesses in the new healthcare law. There will be a
Jarrett and Obama (image: romanticpoet) President Obama’s aides, Lawrence Summers and Valerie Jarrett, recently sent a letter to the national small business pretender organization, NFIB, thanking it for either its “praise” of or “support” for the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. The letter was intentionally vague so that the NFIB could pick which applied to it. Actually, neither
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When the media ran the story that the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) was joining the “frivolous” lawsuit against the U.S. government over the new healthcare law, there were a couple important pieces of information missing. The national press is not doing its job so let me help them. As we all know, the
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