The below is an editorial by the Sun News that ran in the Myrtle Beach area newspaper on July 05, 2011 ——————————————————————————————————- Creating Jobs from the Ground Up Frank Knapp has a message for those who want to create jobs and bolster our state’s economy: Look to the little guys.…
Reducing unemployment by 45%
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…
Amazon customers: Start paying your sales tax because now there is a record
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…
Amazon and Mitt
Below are two must-read editorials from this weekend. The first by Cindi Scoppe, Associate Editor of The State, accurately analyzes the meaning of the recent House vote to give Amazon.com an exemption from collecting sales tax. But most legislators acknowledge that there was a serious question of fairness in this…
What’s the value of our advocacy? How about $35 million and 751 jobs!
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…
More reasons to oppose Amazon sales tax deal
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…
Better use for Amazon’s incentive dollars
The opinion editorial below by Frank Knapp ran today in The State.———————————————————————————————- Better use for Amazon’s incentive dollars By FRANK KNAPP JR. When the S.C. House voted to support our state’s small retailers by not giving in to Amazon.com’s incentive demands to build a distribution center, predictions of doom erupted.…
Amazon not giving up
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…
House stands with state’s small businesses
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…
Amazon will build in Lexington Co. without tax deal or we’ll see them in court
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…