Funding Private Schools—Here We Go Again
State funding of well-off private school students and homeschoolers is back on the agenda with a South Carolina House subcommittee hearing Wednesday on the latest effort to subsidize private education...
View ArticleSC House GOP Sales Tax Plan Addresses only 8 % of Exempted Sales
Leaving the cap on sales taxes on cars untouched, the much ballyhooed elimination of “two-thirds of the special interest sales tax exemptions” in the SC House Republican Caucus’s comprehensive tax...
View ArticleSC House Republicans Move to Tax Working Poor
The SC House Republicans have moved to amend legislation to increase taxes on working poor South Carolinians. The bill (H. 4997), part of the House GOP Caucus’s “comprehensive tax reform,” originally...
View ArticleRewarding Work and Building Wealth: A State Earned Income Tax Credit
Rather than doling out small individual income tax cuts of up to $84 per year to better off taxpayers, the South Carolina General Assembly should instead implement a Ronald Reagan endorsed pro-family,...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing: SC Sales Tax “Reform”
After much publicity about eliminating two-thirds of sales tax exemptions, the SC House Ways & Means Committee concluded on Wednesday that the state’s sales tax system wasn’t so broke after all....
View ArticleGovernor Haley’s Vetoes and Budget Policy: what seventy-four vetoes to the...
The General Assembly’s failure is two-fold—they failed to produce a timely budget and, combined with gubernatorial vetoes issued late Thursday, have thrown school districts and at least two state...
View ArticleThe Haley Budget Translated: Blame It on Obamacare
To listen to Governor Nikki Haley, a core budgetary problem facing our state is Obamacare. “Every dollar that Washington forces us to spend on a still-inefficient Medicaid program is a dollar we can’t...
View ArticleWho Pays State and Local Taxes in South Carolina?
Low-income and middle class taxpayers in South Carolina pay a larger share of their income to support our public structures and systems than do our wealthiest taxpayers. Figure 1 The quality of life we...
View ArticleNon-Tax Revenues: It’s Really About Making Higher Education Unaffordable
In a recent editorial in The State, Cindi Ross Scoppe points to the highest in the nation share (48.4 %) that non-tax revenues made in 2010 of state and local revenues. “Our non-tax revenue in 2010,...
View ArticleEvery Family in SC Pays Taxes: The Poorest Pay a Larger Share of Their Income...
As the S.C. General Assembly looks to do “tax reform,” a new report, Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States by the D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy...
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