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By: Broadband Bureaucrats Gone Wild :: FITSNews

Broadband Bureaucrats Gone Wild :: FITSNews — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:36:33 +0000

[...] is precisely the approach that got this state in the mess its currently facing, be it jobs, education, wages or our [...]

By: D.Reinert

D.Reinert — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:38:09 +0000

Maybe some of our problems are brought about more by home rule than by the state. We have plenty of local bureaucrats with fat heads not only squandering taxpayers money on monuments to their egos but actually coming up with crap like the Greenville Plan to circumvent the constitution and put the taxpayers deeper into debt. Just before the tax swap took effect several counties jumped on the wagon, loading their citizens with decades of debt and wiping out most of the savings from the tax swap, even increasing the taxes of the people who could afford it the least. This also placed a dramatic hit on local small businessmen who didn’t realize any savings from the swap and then took the hit of increased school taxes from the now illegal financing scheme. So what results have we seen from this underhanded scheme, after over a billion dollars Greenville drops 24 points in the SAT, after $315 million Pickens drops 13 points, local small businesses shutting doors, other businesses refusing to locate unless they get hefty tax breaks which wouldn’t be necessary if the taxes were fair in the first place. Sure, our state legislatures could be more responsible, but let’s lay some of the blame where it belongs, right at our own back door. Remember, the tax swap came about because of pressure from citizens about the high and ever increasing local school property taxes. It was a bad idea, and most of the Taxpayers Associations across the state were against it, but it was a state response to local school boards out of control.

By: Big Oil Bob

Big Oil Bob — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:27:16 +0000

Poor people in SC are getting educated and less scared by power. One day soon………… you folks with money and power better get out your shotguns ’cause there are more working poor than they are of you folks!

By: moonbeam searcher

moonbeam searcher — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:38:03 +0000

where is the governor. Who is the governor?
What does whoever is the governor do all day?

Callinlg Moonbean, come in Moonbeam……

By: Red Bank Bar

Red Bank Bar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:12:36 +0000

I love this post. It’s a perfect response to your Dumb-F*ck Mandy who recently told us the economy is in great shape. She sounds like a financially challenged John McSame, something heretofore thought impossible.

By: Sanford Does Not Have A Clue

Sanford Does Not Have A Clue — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:38:09 +0000

“Pippi Wrongstockings” got this one right:

http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/487137.html

By: Philotiger

Philotiger — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:14:50 +0000

The stupid bitch in the New York Sun just about had an orgasm breathlessly
praising the S.C. business environment and now you go and
point out that things aren’t so rosy in S.C. after all. Wouldn’t be simplier
(and more honest) to just admit that the citizens of our beloved state
are by and large just a bunch ignorant dumbfucks and that this
simple fact pretty much explains our failure to become an
economic role model for the rest of the country? No amount of state-
vouchered private schooling or ginned up “mo money” public
schooling is going to change this basic fact.

By: Stupid is as stupid does

Stupid is as stupid does — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:22:17 +0000

The S.C. legislature should do what the federal government has done and send me a check immediately . Frankly I am too dam stupid to realize they might have to raise my taxes to cut me a check . Or maybe they just run up a budget deficit and print more money to water down the value of my check – either way is a o k by me.