Tom Davis: Guiding Principles On SC Gas Tax Debate
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for the day dimbulb SC voters realize that “tax swap” is the preferred method to enrich the rich and impoverish the rest of us.
Yeah: Everybody’s stupid..and you, Boz and FITS are geniuses…who are the only ones who know how to do anything right…
That’s why FITS is being sued for libel and slander…Dumb@$$…
While it would be more difficult to prosecute you, because, your statements are ignorant in general, not specific toward those you hate…you are just as disgusting and immoral as FITS…
You offer nothing but HATE, failure…and ignorance…therefore you are a Democrat…
Hey GT, this one is just for you
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XaMI69T-rSY?rel=0&showinfo=0
You are so frustrated that I call you out for who, and what, you are…I would not click on anything you present , because I don’t trust you to not be spreading a virus.
Very few of you answer for yourselves, to honest characterizations. You mostly just attack, with irrelevant would-be insults. You’ve have been defeated via Obama’s collapse and the Bingham legal action against you.
And a liberal is even more dangerous when you realize your gods and your myths have failed you, as I told you they would.
Damn, you don’t know shit about computers other than the symbols, Dumb@$$! LMAO!
I told you ‘Garbage’ was ‘SYNTwist’…all posts DELETED.Careful with ‘her’.Some kind of ‘plant’ via ‘speedo #2’…FBI/SLED? No idea.
Look out of your window tonight around 10:30.
I will. At the beach and it is beautiful.I thought that was you last night…with the crack pipe and 40 ouncer of English Leather.
Did you get any of the pizza crust we thru over the balcony?
Thanks for the heads up.
Tap trace in progress.
Hey JIm…tell us that post office story again…the one in which Fits wrote an article about a disgruntled customer and his mailbox…and low and behold you just happened to be in the damn IRMO p.o. when this nut came rolling in and went ‘postal’…
You libs lie so much you can’t even keep up with em….lol :)
Fits did not write the story
Letter/email about incident was sent to Fits and he posted contents
It was Chapin Post Office not Irmo Post Office
The customer did not go postal, no guns, no shots fired
I have voted Republican in the general election for the past 12 years except Haley’s second term, did vote for Haleyt first time around
Incident did not happen in a vacuum, I was one of several individuals who happened to be present and I also happen to comment on this blog – Gibbs may not believe in coincidences but I do
Bottom line – fuck you and fuck the horse you fuck
Fits didn’t post about this? LIE #1
“I have voted Republican in general election for past 12 years”? LIE #2 (you have posted prior you have voted for democrats and your campaign donation to Tom Ervin proves that, in my opinion).
“I also just happen to comment on this blog” LIE #3
COCKROACHES!!!! :)
thanks
GrandTango acts as though his stupidity is a virtue. Who is paying him and how much?
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A good liberal democrat approach … And I agree.
In this case the only “rich” benefiting are the state house taxsuckers.
I just LOVE more and more taxes! Please, take my money!
You are the only Ohio State graduate (?) I know that is a begger and poor.
“Tax swamp” more likely.
Good points Tom! I just can’t get over your support for Toal. It defied logic in your quest to “walk the walk”.
I agree. He is really a Democrat and with the vote for Toal, he showed his true colors. This post is just a bunch of the same ole Tom Davis crap.
AMEN!
I want my country back!
God I hate that statement, as if some inbred hicks have the deed to all 50 states.
“God I hate that statement, as if some inbred hicks have the deed to all 50 states.”
Well, they do this one.
The planned I-526 Boondoggle was one of the reasons road/highway maintenance went to shit. Dig deep back into this and let these scums be persecuted by the public. Spare no one and take no prisoners. The public most certainly wants lots of heads to roll. And in time, they will. They have pissed off the public for the last time this go around. The FBI is going to bust them. 10, 20, and 30 year sentences are a possibility.
You need to put down the crack pipe. Ain’t gonna happen.
You’re the one who mocked people for calling Johns Island a sea island, so what do you know about anything?
What part of the word sea do you not understand? Folly-yes, James-no, Kiawah-yes, Johns-no, Seabrook-yes, Wadmalaw-no.
You are officially clueless about the Lowcountry.
So explain it to me oh learned one. I suppose Drum Island is a “sea” island.
Spend a few years here and maybe you’ll understand basic words we use to describe our area. Until then, don’t presume to tell us we need to build unneeded highways to destroy our landscape.
Is 60+ enough?
“10, 20, and 30 year sentences are a possibility.”
Um, no. Have you not seen our typical response to corrupt behavior? I predict some plea deal, followed by a resignation, and possibly some minor period of time on probation.
… But it may take 10, 20 or 30 years to untangle that tax code knot. Even if Those Fools get the slammer and time off fur “good” behavior, They would still have to deal with Their screw-ups.
Well, except for the part about letting Nikki appoint everyone, it sounds logical. She’s failed at most of her other appointments so why would this one be any different?
Maybe they can hold off on that part of the plan until she’s out of office.
It’s not really about Haley; it’s about executive control/accountability versus our current goofy legislature-managed state of affairs…
Truth
If you all only had a recall vote …
I can’t believe any of you folks would go along with adding more complications to your tax codes.
Why are your poli-wogs even doing this? Why even have a discussion to chose one more complicated tax structure over another even more complicated one?
Those of you who may have noticed before, when your local g’ment seeks to “rebalance” complicated law and rules, the only winners are g’ment … The taxpayers always lose.
Split it up. Vote an income tax reduction up or down, period. Then if that works consider raising the fuel tax … Or the reverse …
The operative word is simplify. Otherwise, creeping meat-ball-ism will win and everybody losses.
“The operative word is simplify”
We are simpletons here Eddy – it is all very simple – see my post above for more detail. We love that big “R” here in SC. And if we get any simpler we’ll have to go ahead and start calling ourselves Simple Carolina – oh excuse me, I meant Simple CaRolina. Complain all you want about that awful Taxifornia where you live but at least the majority of your elected officials are not the product of in-breeding. And we don’t do any “meat-ball-ism” down here anyway, Eddy. We do “meat-loaf”. It is that simple. Do I need to simplify this any further?
You won’t find me pulling the big [R] lever …. Unless and until the [R] person in question is talking tax cuts and more tax cuts.
Yes, I am a Tax Zealot. But you all see by now, the more money you give Them, the more They want, Everytime.
The single reason that South Carolina taxpayers pay less per capita than any other state? Because They have been screwing you for so long you all are pretty near bankrupt.
One thing for sure. If South Carolina wants more private sector business, more jobs, more help for the poor, complicating the tax codes will Not Work! … That never has and it never will.
There is nothing complicated in SC about the tax code – or anything else for that matter. We elect anyone that puts an “R” after their name on the ballot. Hell, sometimes we’ll just go ahead and vote for someone if they have an “R” anywhere in their name. The R’s could rape and plunder the entire state – which they’ve basically been doing for years – and we’ll still continue to vote for them. We screech and whine and moan about the potholes in the roads – yet continue to elect the once who dug the potholes. It ain’t that complicated Eddy.
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/title12.php …
“… We screech and whine and moan about the potholes in the roads – yet continue to elect the [same ones] who dug the potholes. …”
That’s another thing I don’t get.
Does South Carolina put out to competitive bidding “general maintenance and pot hole repair”? … What? Not?
I do not believe this “lower income taxes in exchange for higher gas taxes” plan is the right approach
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why not? You’ll have the choice *not* to pay the gas tax – don’t buy gas!
I do not believe….
And leave it at that. After that…what else matters?
You getting some ass, a job, and a 12 step?
He wants to go to Paranoid Anonymous meetings but they won’t tell him where and when they meet…..
Yeah! I believe those predictions.
Wow! Smoke AND mirrors!
All too often the working folks do not have that choice.
Blasphemy! The free market gives you the choice. The market will adjust by eliminating working folks.
It seems like it should be a pretty simple metric to devise. Road maintenance funds should be distributed to counties based on the existing paved surface area. New roads and widenings should be considered capital improvements and distributed based on provable traffic throughput and economic impact.
As it stands we spend 1.2 billion in Mt Pleasant to please yankee carpet baggers who want their real estate to appreciate.
Hey. Watch the carpetbagger reference when responding to a Tom Davis crapola statement.
A lockbox for future highway repairs funded from revenue increases. Sounds like a better idea than a tax hike. We need to reform the Infrastructure Bank too or they will tear through that funding as soon as a connected politician wants a bridge to nowhere built in his district.
Those “lock boxes” don’t work any more. Out here in Taxifornia the “close to bankrupt” cities have had to unlock the boxes in order to cover g’ment union pension “obligations”.
… Then of course the cities have to raise taxes to fill the “lock boxes” back up. … Until the next time.
why not just cut the income tax and forget the gas tax? every conservative knows lower taxes result in higher revenue. is tom davis calling ronald reagan a liar?
To not even look at other ways to fund this $750 million Bond Bill is a complete disregard of the Legislature’s Fiduciary responsibilities to safe guard the public’s money.
All of this could easily be funded without raising gas taxes or any taxes at all.
SC could sell or take public Santee Cooper for upwards of $10++ Billion dollars CASH!
It would have no effect on the State, Santee’s Customers, existing CO-OP contracts, existing pensions, and most of the jobs would be safe. It would make Billions of dollars of equipment taxable and solve the low funding of Education on I-95 without raising a single tax payer dollar.
Why this is not being done is absolutely inexcusable and an Outrageous abuse of the Public Trust!!