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…
Take the Money and Save Employers From Fines
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…
Small Business Owners Reject Corporate Tax Avoidance
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…
Small business opposes multinational corporations’ tax avoidance
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…
Meet the New Left: Small-Business Owners
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…
Free market trumps concerns over expansion
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…
Proposed bill would help even out competition among health insurers
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…
Medicaid expansion is critical here
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…
Without Medicaid expansion, hefty fines loom for small SC firms
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…
Knapp: Not expanding Medicaid will cost SC small businesses
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…