Enhancing Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Act advances
Great news! Yesterday Senator Tim Scott’s (R-SC) bill, Enhancing Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Act, passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee with a unanimous vote.
Promoting small business development just a fraction of the cost of Boeing incentives
South Carolina state officials are reported to have been secretively putting together an incentive package to lure Boeing into manufacturing its new 777X jet in the Palmetto state. In addition to the prestige of expanding Boeing’s presence and employment in the state (which has already cost South Carolina $570 million in incentives to date), 2000 …
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Creating Jobs from the Ground Up
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. Knapp, the president and CEO …
Opinion: Putting tax dollars to work in S.C.
The State April 29, 2008 By Frank Knapp In a guest column on March 13, Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor said his agency had modified the state’s film industry incentives in order to “encourage the hiring of South Carolinians and the purchasing of products from South Carolina businesses.” The S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce believes …