Your South Carolina Senator is ignoring you! The Senate has been debating the Department of Administration bill, H3066, for three weeks. It has been amended five times. There has not been one single recorded vote. Thank you for contacting your Senator multiple times to tell him to implement the recommendations of the South Carolina Policy […]
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Bill Would Put More Teeth, Transparency in Incentives Deals
If you ask S.C. Rep. Thad Viers, he’ll tell you that it was mainly for philosophical reasons that he voted earlier this year against offering a controversial state sales-tax collection exemption to Internet retail giant Amazon.com. “My philosophy is that I don’t think government should pick winners or losers in the marketplace,” the Horry County Republican […]
Financial Coercion
How the federal government decides who receives unemployment benefits Last month, we highlighted various ways in which South Carolina finds itself using state tax dollars for federal priorities. Usually what happens is this: The federal government promises the state money on the condition that the state pay a sizeable proportion of the costs, and state […]
Who is pulling the strings?
More than a third of our budget depends on a source that’s headed for financial ruin. The federal government is now $14 trillion in debt and running a $1.3 trillion deficit. That’s bad news for South Carolina. In 2011, South Carolina lawmakers passed a budget that was 39 percent federal money. South Carolina raked in […]
SC House members padding pockets, too
As an addendum to yesterdays post on Senators padding their pockets, here are the House members who are on the same gravy train, collecting pensions while still serving in the SC House. The State published the names of nine SC House members as follows. Let’s give them the retirement they deserve! Remember these lawmakers […]
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