Published on April 27, 2013 By Andy Brack | Free Times When South Carolina business owners figure out how they’ll face millions in fines if the state doesn’t take billions in free federal money to provide better health care for hundreds of thousands of low-income workers, they’ll rise up in disgust. As part of the […]
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Published on April 27, 2013 By Andy Brack | Free Times When South Carolina business owners figure out how they’ll face millions in fines if the state doesn’t take billions in free federal money to provide better health care for hundreds of thousands of low-income workers, they’ll rise up in disgust. As part of the
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Published on April 24, 2013 Accuracy.org Two national business policy groups released a poll showing small business owners strongly oppose corporate tax loopholes. More than four out of five small business owners (85%) oppose aterritorial tax system, which would permanently exempt offshore profits fromU.S. taxation. Frank Knapp is vice chairman of the American SustainableBusiness Council
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Published on April 9, 2013 By Frank Knapp, Jr. | The Hill’s Congress Blog In our highly partisan environment there seems to be very few issues that Republicans, Independents and Democrats agree on. This partisanship is easily seen in Congress but is also alive with voters across the country. Small business owners are often no
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Published on March 20, 2013 William Greider | The Nation An employee counts money from a sale at Chagrin Hardware in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) A promising new force is finding its voice in progressive politics, though it is still widely ignored or misunderstood. These overlooked progressives are small-business owners and entrepreneurs who
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March 23, 2013 By Frank Knapp Jr. | Rock Hill Herald Why do so many of our state’s officials not believe in our free market economy? That is the question I keep asking myself every time a state official dismisses the benefits of expanding Medicaid to low-income South Carolinians by saying that there aren’t enough
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Published on March 20, 2013 By Lauren Sausser, The Post and Courier South Carolinians covered by companies other than Blue Cross Blue Shield could see lower health insurance premiums if a proposed bill is signed into state law. Senate Bill 145 is attempting to even the playing field among competing companies in astate that is
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Published on March 11, 2013 Greenville News By Frank Knapp Jr. Recently a representative of the Heritage Foundation told a South Carolina Senate subcommittee that expanding the state’s Medicaid program as allowed under the Affordable Care Act would be bad welfare policy. Director Tony Keck of our Department of Health and Human Services has framed
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Published on February 23, 2013 By JOEY HOLLEMAN, The State COLUMBIA, SC — A wave of higher health insurance expenses will threaten the bottom lines of many small and medium-sized businesses starting next year under the Affordable Care Act. And if S.C. leaders turn down expanding Medicaid,as expected, the wave will be even bigger. Those
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Published on February 21, 2013 By FRANK KNAPP JR. — Guest Columnist, The State Columbia, SC — The debate is underway over whether to expand the federal-state health insurance program, Medicaid, to more uninsured low-income South Carolinians. Opponents of expansion, made possible by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, are led by Gov. Nikki Haley’s
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