The Gas Tax Hike Campaign Begins …
NEW PROBLEMS … SAME OLD SOLUTION … You knew it was coming … The push to raise gas You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Finally, more tax hikes for the poor! Just what I always wanted! LMAO!!!
If you don’t like this tax hike you’re a socialist liberal hack! Oh my!
Never let a crisis go to waste…
Remember you liberal Bigots used the murder of 9 Christians to move a harmless flag. And your voters are still jobless – even the ones who want to work – and suffering…
You always want to jack up the working Americans…but the problems you promise to solve, just get worse…they more we elect Democrats..
Awe – your wittle flag is gone. Let’s all have a pity party. Awe poor flag.
Boo Hoo, sob, sob
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And so are the jobs…which is the biggest crime you have committed against America.
Boo hoo hoo, what a shaaaaaame!
South Carolina has it made. The state match is only 10% or 20% for federal disaster relief funds that go to repairing roads. Just kill the 526EXT boondoggle, which is in permanent limbo anyway, and use the $420 million.Then we just don’t tell Uncle Sam that all those potholes were there before the flood….
Don’t go countin’ those eggs – Fed budget only funded through Dec. 11.
I agree. South Carolina is in for a “Broken window” economic boost.
“As we said numerous times during the gas tax debate earlier this year, South Carolina motorists – by virtue of their dirt poor status – pay more of their income on fuel than the residents of any other state save Mississippi or West Virginia. In other words they simply cannot afford to further subsidize another round of terrible choices by state leaders.”
Very simply, the majority of those elected regardless of party affiliation don’t care about the poor, let alone most of their constituents. That why taxes always go up on the middle class & poor while big corporations get exemptions here in SC.
Special/moneyed interests run the asylum.
yep, don’t forget the sacred cow, sales tax on cars
why don’t well sell Santee Cooper as some have suggested? Wasn’t the estimate of the sale some 10-11 billion?
Why aren’t libertarians and republicans demanding that the government get out of power production?
“Why aren’t libertarians and republicans demanding that the government get out of power production?”
Well, I think I know why Republicans aren’t, usually it has to do with crony capitalism.
As far as libertarians go, it depends on what flavor you refer to. So many people call themselves libertarians it’s hard to tell who is or isn’t. Bill Maher claims to be a libertarian for example.
The core tenet of libertarianisn is the “non-aggression principle”, or NAP for short. If anyone claims to be a libertarian but can’t explain to you what the NAP is, be suspect.
Basically, the NAP, which includes respect for property rights and recognition of self ownership should direct any libertarian…but basically it doesn’t.
This is why Cato kicked it’s founding member/idea man, Murray Rothbard out. When the Koch’s found out that there would be no room for crony capitalism and the natural logical conclusion to the NAP would end with statelessness(which most people think is “silly talk”, especially most Cato members), that’s when they illegally confiscated Rothbard’s shares and kicked him out.
So in short, you are right, libertarians SHOULD be demanding government get out of power production- but like many things today, libertarianism has been watered down/sacrificed on the alter of PCism.
“future projected surplus funds available.” – Will do we need to point out the rather non-fiscal conservative underpinnings of that statement?
Expecting the usual gas pumping picture on Fitsnews, I got aroused just by seeing the pump. The nozzle not Bo bad either.
They dont maintain what they have. Why give them more?
Going from $1.1 billion to $1.8 billion is a 64% increase. Do math much?
Second time, second comment. No correction.
Dear Ms. Deerin
You do realize that the core of the City of Charleston sits atop a peninsula that juts out between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers at the point they converge to create the Atlantic Ocean
In other words if you don’t want flooding in Charleston then move the damn city inland about 200 miles
Otherwise STFU
jimlewis,owb
They raise gas taxes, they will have 10s of thousands in South Carolina showing up at their front doors with pitchforks. Come on you dumbasses … raise the tax and watch mobs form and come after you. HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!! Love it!!!
Wes Hayes will be on board soon I’m sure.
Brilliant plan! SC delayed spending SC tax money to fix our roads, and waited until a disaster wiped them out. Now we get to use Fed $$ to pay to fix the roads, and won’t have to raise the gas tax or open our own piggy bank. Just brilliant stealth planning!
Anyone know why gas prices in the midlands have been 20 – 25 cents per gal. more than elsewhere in the state since Sept 1st.? I paid $1.72/gal in York SC the other day. It’s never been this much of a gap in price. Perhaps were having a local pre-tax float?