What's the point of having a "taxpayer protection pledge" if it's rarely followed and never enforced? That's the question our founding editor asked Grover Norquist, whose Washington D.C.-based Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) organization administers the nation's most widely-regarded taxpayer protection
Read story »By FITSNews || As expected, the "Republican-controlled" S.C. Senate approved a fifty cent per pack cigarette tax hike on Wednesday - easily outdistancing the thirty cent per pack increase that was approved earlier this month by the "Republican-controlled" S.C. House of Representatives. Unlike the
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
Read story »By FITSNews || Led by Speaker Bobby Harrell (RINO-Charleston), the "Republican" controlled South Carolina House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to raise the state's cigarette tax by 30 cents - with no corresponding decrease. Lawmakers estimate that this tax hike will put an estimated $88 million
Read story »While left-wing editorial boards at La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) and La Liberbad (a.ka. The Greenville News) whined incessantly over the weekend about the need for a cigarette tax hike in South Carolina, pressure could be mounting on lawmakers to refrain from dumping more money into our
Read story »South Carolina lawmakers are about to get "lit up" for their willingness to raise taxes in a down economy, sources tell FITS. Specifically, we're hearing that a taxpayer advocacy group is preparing to launch a statewide mailing campaign challenging lawmakers' on their votes to raise the state's cigarette
Read story »S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell and fellow RINOcrat Hugh Leatherman thought that this was the year they would finally be able to push a 50-cent cigarette tax increase through the General Assembly - and navigate it around a veto from S.C. Governor Mark Sanford. Don't bet on it. After months of
Read story »We noticed a story in liberal La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newpsaper) the other day which basically said that nobody was standing up to oppose South Carolina's proposed fifty cent cigarette tax hike. We suppose that's true - at least if your "journalistic" M.O. is to not look for any opposition. As
Read story »S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell is aggressively courting co-sponsors for his proposed 50-cent increase in South Carolina's cigarette tax, which is scheduled to be unveiled later this week. The feds have already jacked the cigarette tax rate by 62 cents this year, which Democrats in Congress hope
Read story »It's always pretty easy to find South Carolina in any national report ... just start from the bottom. Unless of course it's a report about screwing something up with tragic consequences, in which case you should probably start at the top. It's sad, but true ... and it's something that's not going
Read story »DON'T GET SUCKED INTO THE SPIN, SOUTH CAROLINA FITSNews - May 26, 2008 - South Carolina voters will no doubt be hearing a lot over the next few weeks about all the wonderful, conservative things their elected representatives "got done" in Columbia this year. It's a biannual rite of political
Read story »CIGARETTE TAX INCREASE WITHOUT REFORM IS BAD PUBLIC POLICY By Ashley Landess The cigarette tax increase passed by both the House and the Senate makes it clear that fiscal conservatism is not the prevailing philosophy in our General Assembly. That became obvious when a majority of lawmakers -
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