The South Carolina Policy Council Archive
Limited Government | Free Enterprise | Individual Liberty
During Tuesday’s Santee Cooper conference committee, S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas admitted that government should get out of the power generation business. He also worried that, even with the proposed reforms to Santee Cooper, we could be back in this same situation in the future.
Do these remarks inspire confidence that lawmakers’ changes will improve the situation for Santee Cooper or its ratepayers?
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