Haley Hammers House, Senate on Tax Reform
Gov. Haley says Republican legislature should start acting like one
Gov. Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she's about to get a lot louder. Haley addressed the South Carolina Association of Taxpayers and issued a blunt condemnation of the S.C. House of Representatives for its failure to include tax reform in the proposed budget. "I’m not going to stand by and continue to say I am the proud governor of a Republican state when I’ve got a Republican legislature that just doesn’t know how to act like one," Haley said. Haley said her administration asked the General Assembly to begin a tax reform plan that would simplify the tax code and reduce the manufacturing tax from 10.5 percent to six percent. But, Haley said, the House Ways and Means committee left the $140 million tax plan out of its $6 billion budget …
John H
12:10 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
To JoSCh; Jefferson recommended" Not knowing the context within which this was written, realizing that the FF ideas were not sacrosanct, I would disagree with TJ on this one. Article V creates a dynamic Constitution that allows for change from within without scrapping it. TJ wrote; "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with … more ›