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PRO-BUSINESS FIGHTERS GET SOME LOVE
FITSNews - August 26, 2008 - While some so-called “small business advocates” in South Carolina are running around proposing new government bureaucracies as a means of “helping” our state’s small business community, it’s nice to see a few groups actually endorsing legitimate pro-small business policy - and standing up for the lawmakers fighting to pass it.
In fact, FITSNews has learned today that one of those groups - the S.C. Civil Justice Coalition - is doing just that, pumping out a new mail piece this week on behalf of several state lawmakers who have bucked the State House trend and actually fought to protect small businesses from the evil ambulance chaser lobby.
For example, State Reps. Nikki Haley, Mick Mulvaney, Wallace Scarborough and Senators Nikki Setzler and Kevin Bryant are among those lawmakers the coalition is praising for their pro-small business stand, so props to each of them on this particular issue.
With a business climate as crappy as the one we have here in South Carolina, let’s hope more elected officials start earning this sort of love … after all, small businesses represent the main job creation engine in our state, and it’s high time we stopped pouring sugar in the gas tank.
Comments
By Dave Van Hinkel on August 26th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hooray for boobies!
By OK? on August 26th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Fits, you are uninformed on the legal reform issue. Just because some insurance company funded lobby organization claims that something is pro-business, does not mean that it is. Not one state that has enacted so called “tort reform” has seen their insurance rates go down. All that would happen is that NY and Ohio based insurance companies make more money, and injured people from SC become inadequately compensated. Don’t buy into all the lobbyist spin. You are better than that.
Also, if you want a loser pays system like Europe, than be prepared for enormous federal regulatory agencies like Europe has. There is more to the issue than tort “reform” lobby groups would like you to know. Why don’t you inform yourself on both sides of the issue by say, asking a lawyer (maybe even an “ambulance chaser”) or a law professor.
Ha! That will be the day.