By Kevin Bryant || During the budget debate in the South Carolina Senate I made the illustration that South Carolina Medicaid is a "Mercedes insurance plan." In my pharmacy I work with hundreds of health insurance plans and none offer benefits comparable to our Medicaid system. Hard working South
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South Carolina's record-setting state budget is poised to grow even larger this week ... presenting S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and the Palmetto state's "Republican"-controlled General Assembly with a major political problem. At $22.1 billion (and counting), the current version of the state spending plan
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A handful of fiscally conservative S.C. Senators are trying to block the passage of a record-setting $22.1 billion budget the hopes of winning several key pro-taxpayer concessions. Among their "demands?" An up-or-down vote on a spending cap that would rebate surplus revenues back to the taxpayers
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It sounds like the name of a barber shop quartet, doesn't it? Anyway, as we reported on Tuesday a group of S.C. lawmakers led by Rep. Kris Crawford and Sen. Kevin Bryant are mounting an effort to "draft" U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) into running for president in 2012. (To read our original
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S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman - the Palmetto state's "Godfather of Pork" - sounded the tax hike trumpet during a publicly-funded trip to Arizona this week. While attending the National Conference of State Legislatures fall forum in Phoenix (on your dime), Leatherman declared that disproportionately
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In addition to his proposed cap on state spending, S.C. Sen. Tom Davis has pre-filed another eminently sensible piece of reform legislation for the upcoming session of the S.C. General Assembly. Along with State Senators Phil Shoopman, Shane Massey, Lee Bright, Kevin Bryant, Larry Grooms and Mike
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A South Carolina State Senator is holding hearings after a recent audit uncovered "one hot mess" at the S.C. Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM). S.C. Sen. Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) will convene a meeting of the Senate Labor, Commerce & Industry (LCI) Committee on December 16 to hear "horror stories"
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The recent vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court may well represent the last gasp of an ultra-liberal Senate rushing to fulfill the ideological agenda of the most radical president in American history. The vote also does damage that may take decades to repair. Elena Kagan
Read story »By FITSNews || South Carolina lawmakers are on the verge of doubling and tripling fees on numerous routine court filings - yet another example of the sort of backdoor tax hikes that are being levied on Palmetto State residents at a time when they can least afford to subsidize any additional government
Read story »By FITSNews || We've got to hand it to S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell ... In a state where the average politician is 100 percent full of sh*t, he's pushing the envelope well past the known bounds of B.S. An expert at manipulating the procedural rules of the S.C. Senate to grow government
Read story »By FITSNews || Because it wouldn't be South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" General Assembly without one chamber trying to "out-tax" the other, the S.C. Senate is looking to expand on the thirty cent per pack tax hike that passed the S.C. House of Representatives on an anonymous voice vote earlier
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