While South Carolina state government pours hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain on its failing K-12 education system, bloated and duplicative higher education system, state-sponsored tourism marketing and so called “economic development” deals – its roads and bridges have fallen into disrepair (although the extent of that is up for debate).
Despite passing record-setting [...]
SC Senate Wants Massive Tax Hikes On Motorists
SC “Republican” Proposes Gas Tax Hike
S.C. Rep. Tommy Stringer (RINO-Greenville) claims to be a “Republican.” And a “conservative.”
“He believes that governmental regulations and taxes should be decreased so that business owners can do what they do best: create jobs,” his website bio states.
“Taxes … decreased …”
Everybody got that?
Hell, Stringer’s website even quotes William F. Buckley bashing liberals.
Okay … so now that [...]
SC Gas Prices … Back To The Future
PALMETTO STATE KICKS OFF 2013 ON A “HIGH” NOTE
Last year was a wild ride for gas prices in the Palmetto State … but what will 2013 hold?
Well we know one thing: Dirt poor South Carolinians will continue paying a disproportionate share of their modest incomes on fuel costs (second only to Mississippi, last time we [...]
SC Gas Tax Hike “Ain’t Happening” In 2013
RINO LEADERS SAY MEASURE WON’T PASS SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE
South Carolina’s “Republican-controlled” House of Representatives will not pass an increase in the state’s gasoline tax, sources close to S.C. Speaker Bobby Harrell (RINO-Charleston) tell FITS.
“No gas tax increase will pass the House – period,” one source told us over the holiday break. “It ain’t happening.”
Fiscal liberals, [...]
“Hell No” To South Carolina Gas Tax
PALMETTO STATE CAN’T AFFORD IT
A recycled trade association wants to raise South Carolina’s gas tax by an unspecified amount to fund infrastructure enhancements – one of several proposed tax hikes being pushed in the Palmetto State for 2013.
The “S.C. Alliance To Fix Our Roads” – formerly the “South Carolinians for Better Highways” (and later the [...]
BEA Scores Gas Tax Cut
A plan to cut the state’s gasoline tax by 10 percent would provide an estimated $54.2 million in tax relief, according to state economists.
“We estimate that motor fuel user fee collections in FY 2012-13 will total $545,010,071 at the current tax rate of $0.16 per gallon,” a staffer at the S.C. Board of Economic Advisors [...]
