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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 case. So what’s the cost

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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 a month of intense lobbying

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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 that they would not build

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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. One Lexington County councilman said

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