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Guest Column: South Carolina Lawmakers Are Spending $4 Million On A Soccer Stadium
“Why are GOP legislators continuing to fund projects the market would take care of – if there was really any money to be made from them?”
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Wait till this Karen hears about these Christian Mega Churches that pay zero taxes and makes no contribution to all the roads and infrastructure they use while creating headache levels of traffic every week!
I’m sure after her crusade against soccer, she’ll get right on those horrible menaces, Christian churches. Gross!!!
She doesn’t sound like a Karen at all. She sounds like but one more taxpayer, overburdened with non-essential spending by politicians who have zero understanding of what are and are not core functions of government. I understand for some time, that Kershaw County Council has considered ridiculous expenditures for a sports facility near the old Camden railroad depot. Personal property taxes and fees in Kershaw County have grown absolutely ridiculous, yet some of their council members are never at a loss for new, frivolous ways to squander taxpayer funds on unnecessary items.
As for your complaint about the churches, please take that up with The Constitution. I believe that is where the doctrine of not taxing them originates from, not the author of this article.
There should actually be more people like Ms. Black who are concerned about wasteful government spending. I would like to see that money spent on infrastructure or upgrades to schools in the area. This reminds me of the City of Greenville, which is a huge wasteful spender itself. $4.5M from hospitality and tourism taxes is being spent to build a tower, but downtown restaurants are being forced to close or move out because of rent. Again, they care more about being an attraction for the out-of-towners than its own residents.
That’s $4 million that COULD be going to corporations! How DARE they!
Of course, it’s in Peeler Country!!!
Why does she feel the need to throw “Christian” in her description? Does a “Christian mother” immediately have more credibility than any other mother? Anyone who casually throws a descriptor like that into a brief bio is sending up red flags.
Now don’t go getting upset, Karen John Doe. The descriptor “Christian” means she has certain values and holds dear the traditions of our values and upbringings. If you can’t feel this, then go back where you came from.
Back where I came from? You mean the east side of Greenville County, where I was born and raised?
People and businesses who randomly throw in that they are “Christian” are simply trying to curry favor with a people. As a guest columnist in a political blog, she should stand on her own ideas and writings.
She makes a LOT of sense, to a point where I get upset about how excited I’d been that Mauldin will get this attention. That exit/bridge on Bridges Rd is in DIRE need of attention. There are SO many churches in the area. I grew up next to Brookwood and Bethel Elem. before Brookwood’s current structure was built. Bridges Rd., from Mauldin High to Holland Rd. needs to be widened, and all the way to Hwy 14. Brookwood alone could do the Christian thing and donate to the issue. I’ve had to stop traffic in front of my Mother’s driveway and demand one of these “disciples” let her onto the road she lived on and paid taxes on.
She’s right, but it’s still exciting to see this growth in the Mauldin/Simpsonville area, a top local soccer hub that’s closer to Mesa Soccer Complex and Southside Park.
It appears we have an abundance of Building Construction Companies in the area to provide work for all the new businesses and housing but not enough Road Construction Companies to provide proper access to these buildings. In this specific situation they say it will take ten years to accomplish that. Greenville’s roads are old county horse and buggy roads trying to meet the demands of a high population Urban County. I agree it will take ten years to develop the road infrastructure, but there should have been a plan years ago for that. With all this talk about rezoning areas for redevelopment etc. what consideration is being given to roadways? I was in Omaha, NE for a youth sports game last Saturday and experienced the upgraded road systems throughout the town and county. The changes they’ve made in the last five to ten years are amazing. Our city planners should take a trip there to see how and what they’ve done. As far as the Soccer Stadium is concerned, look around to other cities as to how the finance such structures. What is this facility going to be called?