Bobby Harrell Reviving Tax Hike Recommendations

Not content with passing the largest budget in South Carolina history … again … “Republican” S.C. Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell (RINO-Charleston) said this week that he will revive recommendations to raise taxes on Palmetto state residents.
Harrell will select an 18-member “GOP” Caucus committee to analyze the recommendations of the 2010 Taxation Realignment Commission. [...]

“Back Row Boys” Switch Leatherman’s TRAC

A small group of fiscally conservative lawmakers in the S.C. Senate averted what could have been a big-time disaster for taxpayers today.
Led by common sense Senators Phil Shoopman, Tom Davis and Mick Mulvaney, the Senate approved sweeping changes to a socialist Trojan Horse that – if left unamended – would have rewritten the Senate rulebook [...]

Wrong TRAC

“Comprehensive tax reform headed to full Senate,” proclaimed the S.C. Senate Republican Caucus yesterday, the latest disingenuous fluffing of perhaps the single most dangerous bill being considered by lawmakers this legislative session.
In fact, when we typed “Sen. Leatherman’s Tax Realignment Commission” into our handy dandy bureaucratic translator, it didn’t say something pithy like it usually [...]