Comments on: Weaver: The Insanity Of Crisis

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:27:58 +0000

Rick-

Right on. Weaver is dead-on with this one – which is why we published it.

There’s an army of status quo “comment bitches” on this site who do nothing but sit around and wait for us to post stuff so they can attack the messenger, whoever that may be.

On one hand that’s sad, on the other hand it keeps our hit count high and the big sweet dollars flowing.

-FITS

By: rick

rick — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:09:03 +0000

Don’t know weaver or his past….do know that his economic postulations are correct.

By: Old Bike Dude

Old Bike Dude — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:02:31 +0000

Weaver is just more of the same old same old.

By: Red Bank Bar

Red Bank Bar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:07:34 +0000

Weaver’s a ‘ho. He’s just like the Policy Council plutocrats, he’ll take dirty money from any corporate criminal pushing a deadly or immmoral product on the people of South Carolina. Phillip Morris, payday lending, toxic dumpers, they’re all the same to Weaver, just another cash cow.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:14:53 +0000

Don-So predictable..Crisis or no crisis your organization would still be funded by a certain cigarette company. Raising the 7 cents cigarette tax may cause “massive layoffs and unemployment” in your office but not in South Carolina.

By: Bill Floyd

Bill Floyd — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:59:08 +0000

So, lets bring in the Mafia – - they will create jobs too. Hitmen, pimps, pushers, etc WOW –
What a FI

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:51:21 +0000

James, the solution to the high income tax is NOT to raise other taxes. It is to cut state spending, lower all taxes and let the economy recover through the private sector. You will end up paying all the regressive taxes, too, and you’ll also pay for the federal “matching” dollars, which are still tax dollars and which are still coming from an increasingly smaller private sector.

This state has the ability to fund any really important government program, but we are spending too much money on the not-so-important ones. Raising taxes of any kind is bad policy for everyone, James. You included.

By: walter david

walter david — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:10:51 +0000

I agree with Weaver in a sense. If we legalize some drugs, we can then take the growers, transporters, and sellers, and legitimize their jobs. I’m sure this would reduce our unemployment rate significantly.
I think Weaver might be on to something.

By: James the Foot Soldier

James the Foot Soldier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:03:55 +0000

Mr. Weaver,

For those few of us that pay the high INCOME tax in SC the regressive taxes like cigarettes and gasoline are a breath of fresh air.

If the legislature could leverage those higher taxes into matched federal dollars then perhaps our inability to fund a nursing school or maintain a decent stretch of highway would be within reach.

South Carolina’s problem is that too few in the state are shouldering the tax burden while the under the table/on the side scammers laugh all the way to the bank.

Moving the state further from an income tax supported tax structure to a sales tax (quit your whining over there at the State Newspaper) based stucture is the way to go.