South Carolina Workforce Woes Continue

Ah yes, the “income tax relief” will solve everything for everyone no matter what! As a Koch Brother flunkie, that’s always going to be Will’s go-to flex–more “Citizens for (Billionaire’s Continued) Prosperity BS. Anyway–the real story is that Will and his billionaire buddies just want the 1% to get even more in federal/state welfare in the form of more tax cuts and refunds–aka “free stuff” that they have brainwashed the MAGA into believing everyone else is taking advantage of. Ha! Meanwhile, to pay for this tax dodge, the GOP plans to axe both medicare and social security. No retirement for you! Seriously, that’s their solution to lining their pockets and also, keeping people working until the day they freaking die. That makes working look so attractive doesn’t it? And we keep telling kids that all they have to do is graduate high school–no need for post-secondary degrees–and they too can be a 1%er. Except they can’t and they won’t. Aim low, end up underemployed and on the lower-class income scale for the rest of your freaking life if you don’t end up dead or in jail. Add that to the housing shortage/spike in prices, and there are going to be a hella lot of younger people moving out of the state their families have lived in for generations because they’ll no longer be able to afford to actually live here anymore. Childcare costs, like everything else, are also through the roof, so that will discourage people from having more kids, which also increases our long-term labor shortage woes. None of that can be solved with more tax cuts for the wealthy. It is going to take educational improvements (that don’t involve the charter school scam or some convoluted plan to pay the wealthy’s private school fees), to make sure kids have the education + skills needed to succeed. We also need to help lower housing costs for the middle classes. Maybe try giving them some tax “relief” and making the fat cats pay. Yeah, sounds pretty radical doesn’t it?