WILL GROUP ANTE UP AGAINST PROPOSED TAX INCREASE?
There’s been a major development in round two of the debate over raising the gas tax in South Carolina …
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), one of the groups that fought hard against the tax increase during the 2015 legislative session, sent out an email to its supporters this week signaling its advocacy was ongoing.
“We will fight the continued waste and the unnecessary requests for more of our hard-earned money,” the email, sent from AFP’s South Carolina policy director Vanessa Anderson, noted.
Anderson reiterated AFP’s call for the elimination of the S.C. State Infrastructure Bank (SIB), a political slush fund that’s been repeatedly used to subsidize non-essential new construction at the expense of long-overdue paving and maintenance.
The result of that ongoing lack of prioritization? Yeah …
And for the first time ever, South Carolina’s mainstream media has joined the effort to expose this scam … a potential game-changer in setting the tone for the debate at the S.C. State House.
Speaking of … the most important part of Anderson’s missive? Its call for continued opposition to a gas tax increase – something many political observers believe became inevitable after S.C. governor Nikki Haley reportedly dropped her objection to the proposed levy.
“Call your legislator today and tell them to vote ‘NO’ on all plans that include a gas tax hike,” Anderson wrote. “Urge them to adopt our reform agenda so we can finally fix our roads.”
(To view that agenda for yourself, click here).
Let’s make no mistake: AFP didn’t stop the gas tax hike from becoming law earlier this year, S.C. Senator Tom Davis did that. But the organization does have tremendous resources it can bring to bear in this battle – and if it is willing to engage the fight again heading into 2016, that’s good news for Palmetto State taxpayers.
This website hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with AFP – and we’ve committed “conservative” heresy by criticizing its founders, billionaire industrialists Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch.
But on the gas tax issue, there can be no denying that the organization has been consistently on the side of right … and its presence has impacted the debate in a positive way.
Let’s hope they ante up and kick in … because this fight is going to need all the allies it can muster.
UPDATE: Wow … looks like AFP’s job just got a lot easier.
169 comments
i am tired of the Koch Brothers. Out of state money buying influence to suit the Koch’s needs, not ours.
We don’t need no stinking billionaires round here to tell us what to do!
Unfortunately we also have carpetbaggers like Davis doing it all the time.
DEFEATING the Democrats…and ANY Republicans that do their Bidding is GREAT. Thank you.
And REMEMBER: Opposition to Democrats is SUPPORT for America, South Carolina, and for our people.
Could you South Carolinians please quit relying on Federal tax dollars to keep your 3rd world backwater finacially solvent? You’re a real burden on the rest of us.
It’s OUR money, you Fucking idiot. There is NO SUCH THING as Federal tax dollars. It’s the money of THE PEOPLE, Dumbass. We PAID IT.
So you’re a socialist?
“It’s OUR money….”
Spoken like a true welfare queen.
No, Socialists TAKE money from those of us who EARN it…you ignorant Dumbass. Go take a social studies class.
You are a TAKER, like all Democrats. You are a GREEDY liberal, who wants what we produce, while you sit on your LAZY ass.
Yes, you and SC TAKE money from the Federal government to stay afloat finacially.
You are a socialist moocher who takes from people who earn, like me, and sit on their fat asses all day pretending to be a conservative. You’re welcome, hypocrite.
Dang, I like this guy.
Why can’t you use the GrandTango profile anymore?
Did you get banned or just really, really embarrassed?
What the hell do you produce?
CO. Lots of it.
What a mooching welfare case!
No wonder you pretend to be a wingnut conservative,
you’re paving the way for that commie Bernie?
LOL!!!
How to stump the readers of FitsNews…..
Name one currently serving ‘real’ republican?
One name will do…
Have you PROVEN that Dr. Carson did not get a scholarship offer for West Point, yet?..or will you retract your lie?
West Point doesn’t offer scholarships, you rube.
Can you prove it did not offer one to Dr. Carson…Your statement does not prove Jack Shit, except that you suck off the media…
Yes, because there’s no such thing.
There’s no such thing as an offer???..WHAT???…LMAO…….You may be the most ignorant Motherfucker on the face of the earth…
Where does the Democrat Party get people this fucking stupid?
Without an application or a Congressional nomination? No, there is not.
Has Dabo Sweeeny EVER made a Scholarship offer???
Yes or No?
What the hell does that have to do with West Point?
BUSTED you LIAR….You claimed you were just like Dr. Carson, so you knew….turns out you’re a Fucking liar, talking about an athletic scholarship.
Hope West Point did not apply your Lying Nature to your child. There are Honor Standards at West Point. If they see you as a LIAR, they may punish your child because you’re a fucking lair…You liberals are some Selfish assholes. Making your offspring pay because you are a corrupt bastard,…
Did your child get the scholarship, or did you fuck it up by being a LIAR???
Huh? What athletic scholarship? There are no scholarships at West Point. For anything.
Not schollies for lairs. LMAO…maybe that’s why they turned you down. You should be ashamed. But Carson is an honorable man. Nothing you say about him applies, because he is not a liar, like you have admitted to being.
Stapping a friend, wanting to beat his Mom with a hammer – that’s the kind of honor I’m talking about.
Carson changed his life. Turned it around. Only judgmental assholes would not understand that.
You may need to look into what Dr. Carson did to become a force for good, instead of hate and danger, like you.
All I can say is that I better not catch him wearing a hoodie in his own neighborhood.
You a bad ass, until you jump on a brotha packin’…LMAO…You won’t do it again, that’s for sure…Dumbass.
As long as I kill them and the state acquits me I’ll go on to assault and possibly kill more people.
Only a Dumbass attacks a man with a gun. So if you place all your faith in evolution, as most Godless liberals do…then I guess you have carte blanche to thin out the herd of Democrats. You go boy…. (;
What about all of Carson’s other fibs?
He’s done for…….NEXT!
Well, looks like TARev (or T-Rav) lost again. He’s down to insulting MamaTiger’s well educated child, realizing that once again, he’s stuck holding his little pecker in his hand while the world laughs.
Ever since Taylor apparently rebuffed your throw away phone advances and contacted SLED, you ain’t been yourself?
Bet your wife is proud of you.
Nicely done.
Where is Carson’s application and nomination letter to get vetted and receive his offer? I don’t see it. Should be easy – just like a birth certificate.
If he was coaching at West Point, he wouldn’t.
Which is what we are discussing. WEST POINT.
A West Point coach has NEVER made an offer to a potential student. Is that what you’re saying?
**sigh**
Again, as there ARE NO SCHOLARSHIPS at West Point, what kind of offer are you suggesting?
As the parent of an athlete who was recruited by West Point, the athletic coach referred us to the admissions department. Every prospective student must complete the application process.
So you’re talking about an athletic schollie, compared to a leadership/academic scholarship.
Yet you claimed you (or your child) was in the EXACT same situation as Dr. Carson.
You ahve been Caught LYING…just like Politico. LIAR…LMAO…Why did you fail to disclose this when you made your initial claim. Are you a serial liar? like the Democrat Party and the media?
You’re grasping at air. He didn’t get an offer to West Point, his ghost writer made it up, and now he’s caught in a lie. I’d think you would understand that. But nooooooo!!!!
Huh? What the hell are you talking about?
For the last time… West Point doesn’t give out scholarships. There is no tuition for anyone.
I wouldn’t even bother discussing scholarships with someone who clearly took a stint in the special education department. GrandTango probably has to have his head taped down while he showers to keep him from drowning himself.
Dang, that’s good.
I swear… it’s how I remember arguing with my kids when they were toddlers.
Still can’t produce the name of one, single ‘real’ republican?
Still waiting…..
Carson created ISIS after he overthrew Saddam and gave a lobotomy to GWB on Cheney’s orders. After he stabbed a Black Panter who was threatening his white classmates.
Great, now you’ve scared him off again. He’s like huntin’ squirrels.
When I was offered financial aid at USC it came in the form of a letter. Duh!!!! Derp!!!!!
Where’s the written offer of acceptance and the commitment for the free ride? We’re waiting. Get that birth certificate while you’re at it. And when are the Eagles going to call Tebow?
So I guess you’re saying you have NO PROOF. And you are a LIAR. Right?
Nor does Carson.
Stop talking to yourself. Yes, we agree, you and Carson are liars. Big, fat, Lairs. And Trump will take care of that tomorrow night. Bye Bye Ben Lover.
Not a tax cheat like you Rocky.
Better call the FAA – eh Flip?
I don’t narc on anyone Rocky.I just see you and your NON citizen mother in law cheatin the American citizen taxpayers on Obamacare and it makes you a hypocrite on all issues of integrity.Carson is not a tax cheat.
I follow the law to the letter. You just don’t like the law. Too bad for you.
Of course you aren’t a tax cheat. Unemployed people don’t pay taxes. It’s more likely you commit welfare fraud as you clearly get tax dollars through food stamps and Medicaid and government subsidized housing. If it’s enough to let you stay here all day and comment then clearly the feds are paying you too much. Don’t you have to get so many employers to sign a sheet saying you applied or something? Or do you just sign it yourself? Just asking.
Food stamps. The only stamps on my food is the federal tax stamp on my booze. Don’t do Medicaid fraud either, and my insurance is through my employer. You do, actually, know, what an employer is, right? I even got an offer letter from my employer and still have it. Why didn’t Ben keep his offer letter to West Point?
He was 18 hyears-old and number ONE ROTC man in Detroit.Why does that bother you? Because he is a Christian or black?
What was Obama doing at 18?Oh smoking dope and hating America like his daddy and momma while attending the university on the public dime? We don’t know.They have hidden his records.My guess is terrorist activity or associations????
Just asked, where’s the offer letter. They give offers with letters. Ghost writer lied? Then admit it and move on. But not to worry, when Trump is done with him this week he’ll be polling in single digits. He better hope there ain’t no Cain-mistriss out there, ’cause Bush will leak that one.
Being black or Christian has nothing to do with someone’s inability to tell the truth.
lol…I made more money in the last 5 weeks than you make in a year! ha ha ha
You still gonna call the FAA?
Some of these people commit welfare fraud to such a degree that it is truly amazing how much welfare they are getting. I bet the 5 weeks means last month’s and this month’s food stamps, wonder how much he is scamming taxpayers like you and me.
Well, I suspect every six months he gets a McDonald’s job, works six weeks, trips on the mop and then gets disability.
How old are you Rocky? Pay stubs? You can’t make any money.Fits can’t pay you that much?
Come on fuckface, you tell us how much you made in the past 5 weeks. Put up or shut up. Not like we have any reason to believe anything your lying ass says because you support a lying ass like Carson.
Yeah, he’s a liar. Hell, I bet he is Ben Carson. Carson, that you?
Hey, I wasn’t the one lying about being in MB after the floods. Liar. Total liar. You probably don’t even know how to drive to MB.
You made six figures in 5 weeks? You helping T-Rav peddle cocaine or something?
He has been in Florida, and went through the Grand Strand lately.
I bet if the NSA hands flip’s IP addresses to the DEA they can figure out distribution points for the drug dealers’ supply line.
No Grand Strand.In December.Beach Ball Classic and business.May shag a little.
You claimed you just went to MB after the floods. To help out your son. So you truly are a liar. Set game match.
I don’t think anything he has told us about him is even remotely the truth. He’s high on drugs or something. Flip, you didn’t listen to the number one advice, don’t smoke your own supply.
Doubt he’d even know what end of the bong to use.
Since you brought my kids into this are your girls whore chasers like daddy?
Really? You of all people are going to complain about bringing children into this? Wow, what a fucking joke you are!
I’d have used the word tool, actually.
All I said was you claimed to visit your son in MB. I didn’t make any reference to his character. Apparently you don’t offer the same courtesy – says a lot about you.
That snapping sound is flip getting caught in yet another trap! Good job Rocky.
Rocky you have a habit of trying to destroy others and then playing a victim.If ya want to play in the sewer I will appease your desires of ignorance.
Trying to destroy others and then playing a victim? Oh dear, I must be talking about myself again! Oh my! LMAO!!! LMAO!!!
Knock yourself out.
Oh.I thought you meant on the way home.Yes.I stopped on the way to Florida.I did stay in Columbia last Thursday night on business and got wings from a sports bar called Baker’s.
Yeah right. Caught in your own web of lies. You might actually be Carson himself.
No, really! I know where Myrtle Beach is! I ate seafood at this place called… hold on, let me google “seafood restaurant in myrtle beach” real quick…
Google the menu too.
Lies? Like not working for FitsNews.Everybody knows you and mamatiger92 (aka Smirks) do.
Hey,have at it.
Damn, you still can’t let go of Smirks? You are OBSESSED! I bet you’d stalk him like you do Boz if he were still here.
Where’s the written offer? Much like a birth certificate, should be easy to produce. Rube!!!!
He never said WRITTEN offer. Are you admitting you LIED…if you can’t produce proof. Are you a fucking LIAR?
How convenient.
Without a written offer, you got nothing! Nada. Zippo. They don’t call you in the middle of the night and promise it over the pasta buffet. Dunce!!!!
So I guess you’re admitting you have NO PROOF. And you are a LIAR. Right?
Nor does Carson, which makes him a LIAR too, right?
Stupid, we’re asking you for the proof. Where is it? We don’t see it? He said he was offered a scholarship to West Point? Where’s the letter. Even Bill Clinton produced his Fullbright scholarship letter. Where’s the letter? Don’t you have it? Didn’t you keep it? I would think a letter from West Point you’de keep for posterity. You got nothing but a lying sack of a candidate who thinks ISIS stores grain in the basement of the pyramids. You know, if there is a basement of the pyramids, there’s probably someone like you in there with a desktop computer and waiting on their Mom to bring down tater-tots.
Can you PROVE no ever said “with your credentials, I can get you into West Point?” …
I want to see PROOF for your charge. PROOF!!!!
Go to the West Point website and review the application process.
I’ll wait here.
He didn’t say that. He said he was offered a scholarship to West Point by Westmoreland himself. Where’s the proof? We can’t see it. Because it doesn’t exist. It never happened. And what you described is an offer of assistance, no certainty. Hey, if I met you at a bar and said with your credientials I could get you a date, but you’re so ugly I couldn’t – is that scholarship?
And, again, no one familiar with West Point and their admissions process at all would call it “a scholarship.” No one pays tuition at West Point.
Just a big fat lie. Like high speed internet on Dish.
Still Waiting….
so are we
Why even argue with us. It’s Trump who’s gonna destroy him and his fake West Point Black Knight scholarship offer to shreds tomorrow night. Hope Carson likes the kiddie table, that’s where he’s headed. By the time Trump is done with him tomorrow night, he’ll be in the corner with Rubio crying.
The burden of proof is on you and Carson. Better get moving…..
Old subject.Next.Carson raised millions.
Trump destroys Carson tomorrow night. And his little dog Rubio too.
Carson and Rubio are doing just fine and kicking the shit out of Hillary.
Hillary stuck at 45%.
Trump’s gonna open a can of Trump Ass on those two – plus he’s gonna finish off Rand Paul too.
45% + Donald Trump’s help = Hillary 2016
LMAO!!!! Begging for a 3rd party cause ya know Hillary can’t win.
You won’t be laughing January 2017, but we will.
The Third Party was to make it look close. Now that Trump’s actually going to win the nomination, well, we don’t need it.
This guy gets it. He’s a winner. I’ll just sabotage my own campaign by letting my mouth continue to run. I’m not electable, I’ll scare off enough sensible voters to ruin my chances.
Sshhh!!! Your secret is safe with me!!!
EXACTLY….
He’s the one who made the claim, which means the burden of proof rests squarely on his shoulders.
Oh, I thought that stood for Association of Fat People.
Hey FITS: you punch drunk idiot… Mizzou prez FORCED OUT FOR ‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’
This a GIFT to the GOP’s Presidential nominee. A FREAKIN’ Gift. Thank you, Dumbasses. Thank you…
It must suck being white, with none of the privileges.
Shitty white trash from SC is the worst scum on Earth.
I just THANK you for more or less giving the 2016 Presidential election to the GOP.
You know Hillary will have to answer if she is FOR or Against. And she’s FUCKED no matter what she says….
Like I said….shitty, entitled white trash from SC. Like you, are the worst scum on Earth.
Luckily, you and your dumpy state don’t have any influence on the country, beyond sucking up federal dollars and providing Jerry Springer moments to the media for the rest of us to laugh at. At least, the other smart and sensible citizens of the US shamed your governor into taking that goofy flag down. That was easy. Just like electing ANOTHER Democrat into the White House in 2016 will be.
Hey, we almost had a Honey Boo Boo – but we’re too stupid to know how to get the honey out of the tree.
You sound like a Hateful, racist motherfucker. IOW: a typical liberal…LMAO…
Just calling out an entitled white trash loser when I see one.
You’re just typical unemployed, mooching trash.
Nothing new or interesting. Next!
White privilege only happens if you have the IQ necessary to figure out how to use it. Giving GrandTango white privilege is like throwing it away.
I agree.Can you believe that? Not surprised.State controlled universities have become bastions of American hating brainwashing since the Vietnam era.
Western values of liberty are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. These people want to replace personal liberty with government control; they want to replace equality before the law with entitlement. As such, they pose a far greater threat to our way of life than any terrorist organization or rogue nation. Leftist ideas are a cancer on our society.
Yeah: if you are paying for your child to go there…and you are hated for being white, it’s time to stop paying the freight for all these Leftwing professors to sit on their asses.
I can imagine alumni money dries up, and I’d boycott the football team.
SCREW all of them. I love college football. But I don’t need any thing so much I’d sell my soul to the Democrat Party for it. Make the Democrats foot the bill, instead of taking every penny from us producing Americans.
“I love college football. But I don’t need any thing so much I’d sell my soul to the Democrat Party for it.”
I’d feel the same way if I was a USC-E fan.
So you admit you’ve sold your soul because you are a Clemson fan. Thanks. We’re really learning A LOT about your character (or dearth of it) today. Thank you for sharing. Y’all usually lie about who, and what, you are.
prove it.
LMAO
I wish I could prove it, but I don’t have a soul.
Shutup bitch waffle.
The more the right wingers dissuade their sheep from going to college the easier it is to feed them shit and keep them in line.
We have our own colleges, that teach KNOWLEDGE, not hate, like you liberals are absorbed in.
Like the one where the President was bangin’ the Admissions lady? “Hey buddy, what ya’ doin?”
You talkin’ ’bout the Oval Orifice in the Clinton Administration?…LMAO…
No, the Christian college upstate.
You HATE Christians. That’s not news.
lol….Rocky wore that out for about a month….he was jealous
So, flip, about that money you made in the past 5 weeks… Is it enough to buy us a meal from the dollar menu at McDonalds?
Ah, nice rack, but those born again types don’t do it for me.
Just ones who lie and don’t keep their zipper up.
Is Michelle’s bigger than Barack’?.Her fingers suggest so.
Ask Tango, he knows. He can handle them both.
So you hate them, based on the fact they’ve sin. Thanks for answering. It helps me understand who, and what, you are.
Wait… YOU are a Christian?
He’s the “F” bomb fecal fetish Christian.
Eagles Liquors on Pelham Rd. That’s where I buy my refreshments and scratch offs.
Can you pick me up a 12-pack of Coors? I’m thirsty.
That’s flip in green shirt.
What was Haley wearing when Will apparently fucked her?My guess is that you were in the back seat?
I was there, I had the video camera. We’ve had 1.7 million hits on that baby.
He couldn’t fit, since you and GrandTango were going at it in the back.
Must be sweeps week, Wil’s paying Tango and Flip big money this week to piss us off.
You must be pretty stupid to take the bait.
Not as stupid as someone would have to be to read my dead blog though.
Now there you might have a point.
guilty as charged here
LMAO! You had a good day Smirks.Somebody besides Rocky replied to your mindless,boring drivel.
A lot of people professing knowledge about West Point on here lately. Anyone besides me ever been to West Point, slept in the barracks, eaten in the mess, then decided the big ring wasn’t worth taking all that crap?
Besides being a soul less,American hating creature, you are a quitter as well? Not surprised.
Catching trolls is easy if you use the right bait. They are not worth keeping, though, so throw them back. They have a habit of jumping to conclusions not based on evidence, but on their preconceptions.
Unlike Carson, I did not claim to have been offered enrollment at West Point, nor did I claim to have been enrolled. Unlike Carson, I did accept a Regular Army commission after being a Distinguished Military Graduate of ROTC at Ohio State. This path to a commission allowed me to marry (will be 54 years next month) and edit the Ohio State Sundial before handing it off to my protege, R.L. Stine. He stuck with the funny business and did a little better later with Goosebumps.
My avatar this week was taken in Nha Trang, and is in honor of Veteran’s Day. That’s an M-60, with a 200-round can of linked on my belt, .30 cal, 4 ball, 1 tracer. Fun times! Awarded a Bronze Star for service in commanding a CIDG security force of 200+ ethnic Chinese Nungs responsible for security at Camp McDermott.
UHH RAA get some ! Did not know you were former military.
What roads ?