SC Senator: “It’s Not A Tax, It’s A Fee”
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C-A-S-I-N-O-S in Myrtle Beach.
And Columbia (be able to find a legislator) and Greenville (Baptist don’t recognize each other in a casino) and Rock Hill (get some of that Charlotte money).
Just pass it local option. Horry County can pass it. Greenville? The Bible thumpers would have aneurisms. Charleston? Who knows? The jobs and tax revenue would be more than state has seen in decades; hell, maybe ever. Regulate the shit out of it and it would be a gold mine.
C-A-S-I-N-O-S in Santee, almost right on the intersection of I-95 and I-26 really makes more sense.
Tunica on Lake Marion.
16 cents to 36 cents over 10 years. you’re kidding right?
20 cent increase total, 2 cents increase a year . How is too much?
I bet that doesn’t even keep up with inflation.
Or, do you think it’s too little?
The gas tax should be raised in SC. I don’t want to pay more, but our roads suck.
That said, call a tax tax.
Someone has to bite the bullet. This damn roads are awful.
“…push enough money into the system, you have less problems with it…”
Hey Cleary, when you pull that rubber off your peckerhead tonight to brush your teeth how about take your finger, no dummy that’s your thumb, cover it with toothpaste and write on the mirror your quote and underneath put in quotes “South Carolina Public Education”
Your fucking cockroach logic will not work for the Highway Department just like it does not work for Public Education
Giving the SCDOT more money is like pouring gasoline on a raging fire.
Legalize and tax marijuana like Colorado and 5 state run casinos ought to push enough money into the system to bail-in the SCRS and build up our infrastructure.
why should the state run the casinos?
I guess the intentions of government are so pure that they dull the adverse effects of gambling? Remember, gambling is immoral unless the state chooses to run it
Use money earmarked for roads for that purpose-SC politicians used 98 million dollars that was earmarked for roads and placed it in the general fund. SHIMS was a road maintenance and improvement system using 0.03 of the tax- introduced by the elder Sheheen not the one in office now. Why does Charleston need a $500,000,000 interchange for I526? or the I73 interchange in Myrtle Beach area – this whole thing is corruption-just like when South of the Border interchange was created at Dillon/I95. We need stewards of our money not spendthrifts as are in office now.
+100
Why on God’s green earth would anyone dream of handing over more money for roads when the pols already use “road” money as a slush fund?
If just 1 honest pol(good luck with that) somehow was able to write in a stipulation that road funds only be used for *roads*(doesn’t that sound ridiculous?), then maybe they could sell me on a tax for such(after waiting a year or two to see what happens when they are able to use all the money that is supposed to be for them).
It’s amazing how many fools(as evidenced by this comment section) out there scream for more money for roads without even considering the fact that the money already delegated for them doesn’t make it to them to start.
Utter stupidity to claim we need more money for roads when the money is taken and used for other things.
Blame Grover. He’s the one who’s scared the pants off these idiots. He has made them violate their oaths of office every day by giving primary allegiance to his pledge and too scared to call a tax a tax.
Does anyone know how much is paid in a year in gas tax right now and where the money is being spent ? It sure is not being spent on roads.Gas tax is Gas tax for roads how can the politicians rob this money and use it for other things? But vote the crooks back in office and complain about the same things! WE need a audit of this money and where its at period! No more tax increase until someone shows where its being used now.
The last two audits show they waste millions and millions are unaccounted for. They never fix potholes, just patch them for a few weeks. How much does that cost, that twenty year pothole that has been in front of your house for as long as you can remember? Disband them, get rid of all those so-called engineers and put the paving out for bids. That’s what they do anyway. Since they claim they don’t have the money to fix our roads, why do they need so many employees and just what is it they do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc