By FITSNews || In case you haven’t noticed, we bash the “Republican” leadership in both chambers of the S.C. General Assembly on a daily basis around here … and deservedly so.
They’ve run the Palmetto state into the ground ever since taking over (or switching parties, as is often the case), and the fact that these [...]
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SC Lawmakers, Agencies Eye Massive Tax And Fee Increases
South Carolina’s legislative leaders are considering hundreds of millions of dollars in tax and fee increases as part of their efforts to preserve an unusually large, inefficient and dysfunctional state government through 2010 and beyond.
At a whopping 41 percent of gross state product, South Carolina already has the tenth-largest government apparatus in America – and [...]
Senator Mike Rose Wants YOU To Drive
There are so many things wrong with South Carolina that it’s really hard to know where to start fixing it …
Seriously, people … our state is poor, dumb, fat, sick, unemployed, overtaxed, antiquated, corrupt and (not surprisingly) violent.
Oh, and heavily-medicated.
And all that was before our “Lov Gov,” Mark Sanford, decided to make us the butt [...]
Blame Game: Inside SC’s “Employment Insecurity” Drama
To hear S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell and other lawmakers tell it, South Carolina’s numerically-challenged, performance-averse Employment Security Commission is exclusively to blame for the latest insanely expensive example of the Palmetto State not being able to discern its ass from its elbow.
In fact, according to McConnell and S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, it was [...]
