Comments on: SC Spending Orgy Has Consequences

By: SC Corporate Tax Receipts Plummet :: FITSNews

SC Corporate Tax Receipts Plummet :: FITSNews — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:00:48 +0000

[...] says he’s optimistic that S.C. lawmakers will look at these numbers and realize that the state spending orgies of the past need to be permanently done away [...]

By: Cap The Spigot, Not The Spending :: FITSNews

Cap The Spigot, Not The Spending :: FITSNews — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:11:29 +0000

[...] and after it passed with much fanfare in 2004 the Legislature promptly embarked on the biggest four-year spending binge in state [...]

By: Angry McCainiacs :: FITSNews

Angry McCainiacs :: FITSNews — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:42:56 +0000

[...] and acknowledging that the current crop of “Republicans,” whether in Washington D.C. or Columbia S.C., bears absolutely no resemblance to the Reagan Republicans who believed in government cutting taxes [...]

By: Scamming Small Businesses :: FITSNews

Scamming Small Businesses :: FITSNews — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:52:34 +0000

[...] Harrell and Hugh Leatherman (who believe we grow the economy investing in additional government). Click here for more on [...]

By: South Carolina Is Broke :: FITSNews

South Carolina Is Broke :: FITSNews — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:37:32 +0000

[...] In fact, a dramatic “de-stimulation” has instead taken place - which incidentally is what we’ve been saying would happen all along when you starve families and businesses of needed revenue to fund massive government spending orgies. [...]

By: ron

ron — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00:53 +0000

In my opinion, one of the most idiotic things the sc lawmakers have done was to shift the school operations funding from a local revenue stream to an increase in the state sales tax. They were forewarned that the sales tax is totally unreliable in difficult economic times. Rather than listening to reason, they listend to their beach buddies that wanted a “tax break” on their luxury homes. As you know, this resulted in a monumental “tax shift” from the have’s to the have nots in our state. Now the real estate industry, the chambers of commerce, the Strom Thurmond Institute (the institute published numerous documents warning of the dangers of this tax shift) etc are singing the blues over the “flim flam sales tax scam” (phrase appropriately coined by Col. Joseph Kress of the Dorchster Taxpayers Associaiton).

By: ron

ron — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:50:58 +0000

fits: you’re right that the overwhelming majority of sc assemblymen NEED TO GO. They apparently learned nothing from their budget fiasco following the dot.com bubble bursting early in this decade. If i recall correctly, Gov Sanford inherited an unconstitutional budget deficit when he was elected. These lawmakers, ignoring their oaths of office to protect and defend the constitution, ran 2-3 years of unconstitutional budget deficits in a row while borrowing from almost every “trust fund in state government”. Subsequently they have chosen to ignore the pleadings from the Governor and Comptroller General and even over rode almost all of his vetos which were an attempt to restore fiscal sanity in Columbia. As you say so eloquently in this blogg piece, they still haven’t learned. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY INCUMBENTS ON JUNE 10TH.