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June 9, 2022 South Carolina Policy Council
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Inflation in SC shows need for bold tax cuts

May 20, 2022 South Carolina Policy Council
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Analysis: SC’s competing tax cut proposals, what to know

February 24, 2022 South Carolina Policy Council
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Three crucial tax reforms for South Carolina

January 13, 2022 South Carolina Policy Council
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Certificate of Need repeal heads to governor’s desk 
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Certificate of Need repeal heads to governor’s desk 
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Certificate of Need repeal heads to governor’s desk 
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What to Watch at the Organizational Session

December 1, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

THERE’S MORE AT STAKE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK At this week’s organizational session, South Carolina House lawmakers will be asked to make several important decisions, including who becomes Speaker of the House…

Reform & Restructuring

House Committee Proposes Rule Changes

November 25, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE IMPROVABLE Last week we wrote about some of the bills proposed by the House Ethics and Freedom of Information Act Committee, the committee created…

Budget Commentary

Good & Bad Ideas on Roads

November 22, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

WHAT YOUR POLICYMAKERS ARE HEARING & SAYING Two recent meetings – the House Ad Hoc Transportation Review Committee, and a York Town Hall addressed by Rep. Gary Simrill (R-York) –…

Reform & Restructuring

New Ethics Measures Proposed, Debated

November 18, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT ELIMINATING EXEMPTIONS AND LOOPHOLES? On Monday the House Ethics and Freedom of Information Act Ad Hoc Study Committee met to consider six proposals. Two of…

Reform & Restructuring

New Ethics Proposals Made Public

November 14, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

ARE WE HEADED INTO ANOTHER YEAR OF WEAK ETHICS LEGISLATION? HARD TO SAY. The indictment and subsequent conviction of former Speaker Harrell on ethics charges has brought renewed calls for reform…

Budget Commentary

Roads: Is Raising Taxes Really the Only Option?

November 12, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

LAWMAKERS SEEM TO THINK SO. A LITTLE EFFORT MIGHT BE IN ORDER. Tax hikes are on the mind of legislators. At least that’s what the October 30 meeting of the…

Commentary Reform & Restructuring

How “Restructuring” Gave the Legislature More Power

November 6, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

NEW POWERS FOR LAWMAKERS? Much has been made of the restructuring of state government through the Department of Administration bill passed in January. Proponents of the bill have labeled it historic…

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Best & Worst of the General Assembly

October 31, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

HOW’D THE LEGISLATURE DO? Every year since 2009, we’ve given readers a guided tour of the legislative session’s follies, misadventures, missed opportunities, and accomplishments. This year’s guide includes sections on…

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Does the Education Superintendent Matter?

October 29, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

NOT AS MUCH AS IT SHOULD A recent debate between the two major party candidates vying to become South Carolina’s next Superintendent of Education failed to reveal many substantive policy…

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Why Raising the Fuel Tax Is a Terrible Idea

September 30, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

MONEY’S NOT THE PROBLEM. PRIORITIES ARE. The issue of road funding – or, to put it slightly differently, the question of how South Carolina should fix its broken road system…

Reform & Restructuring

Testimony: Reforms to House Rules

September 23, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

SCPC PROPOSES REFORMS TO NEW COMMITTEE ON HOUSE RULES AND PROCEDURES [Editorial note: The following testimony was delivered by Policy Council Director of Research Jamie Murguia to the House Ad Hoc…

Commentary Economic Development

Getting Politics out of Money

September 16, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

WHAT THE McDONNELL CASE TELLS US ABOUT GOVERNMENT ‘DEVELOPING’ THE ECONOMY Last week former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was convicted of 11 counts of corruption related to his acceptance of…

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Why “Publicly Owned” Resources Get Neglected

September 9, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

IS YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT DOING A GREAT JOB OF MAINTAINING PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE? IF NOT . . .  The Nerve recently reported on a lawyer who is simultaneously serving as a…

Commentary Reform & Restructuring

How S.C.’s Legislature Bullies Local Governments

September 5, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

WHEN WILL LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PUSH BACK AGAINST ALL THIS MEDDLING? The House of Representatives returned for a special one day session on August 27 to address a mere two bills…

Budget Commentary

What Will the State Do with the Surplus?

September 2, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

PROBABLY NOT WHAT CHESTER ARTHUR WOULD HAVE DONE You might have recently heard that South Carolina ended the fiscal year with a higher-than-expected surplus – a surplus big enough to…

Individual Liberty

Is South Carolina at War with the Homeless?

August 28, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

EQUALITY OF THE LAW OUGHT TO MEAN SOMETHING South Carolina has a homeless problem. That’s especially true in Columbia. The problem isn’t that the state and city are overwhelmed by…

Commentary Taxes & Regulation

Why Another Earned Income Credit Won’t Help

August 26, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

MORE LAYERS OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS WON’T ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY. BUT SOMETHING ELSE WILL. South Carolina is among the poorest states in the nation. That’s no secret. But with a…

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A New Opportunity for the Policy Council

August 25, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

A LITTLE MORE WORK AND TRUE REFORM CAN HAPPEN. The Policy Council has been advocating legislative and fiscal reform in South Carolina for many years, and we’ve never seen a moment like this…

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Public Colleges Don’t Need More of Your Money

August 21, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

ONE BLOATED COMPENSATION PACKAGE IS ONLY A TINY PART OF THE PROBLEM Late in 2013 University of South Carolina (USC) President Harris Pastides was making hat in hand entreaties to the…

Commentary Education

Common Core: It’s Bigger Than You Think

August 20, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

COMMON CORE IS EVERYWHERE – BY DESIGN. REJECTING IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN A BILL. Across the country, parents and teachers are waking up and forcing their states to reject the…

Individual Liberty

A Return to Non-Adversarial Policing?

August 15, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

FEDERAL FUNDING HAS ENCOURAGED LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO MILITARIZE. THERE’S AN EASY WAY TO CHANGE THAT. The image of the public servant police officer committed to protecting the average citizen…

Taxes & Regulation

Do South Carolinians Have the Right to Work?

August 13, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

REMEMBER, THE FREEDOM TO WORK MEANS MORE THAN THE ABSENCE OF UNIONS Last year during National Employee Freedom Week, we posed this question: Is South Carolina really a “right-to-work state”? Of…

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Why Common Core Fails Special Needs Students

August 6, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL IS GREAT, UNLESS YOU’RE THE WRONG SIZE Common Core, whatever else may be said about it, is a one-size-fits-all standards regime. Parents of special needs children therefore have every reason…

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Nothing New about the New Markets Job Act

August 5, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

ANOTHER IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME AND GONE “Public-private partnerships” with innocuous-sounding names have become extremely popular in South Carolina over the last decade. The latest endeavor in the trend…

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The Unseen Costs of the Export-Import Bank

July 31, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

THE EX-IM BANK GIVES FOREIGN COMPANIES AN ADVANTAGE, COURTESY OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER . . . TIME TO LET IT EXPIRE In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution,…

Individual Liberty

Government Transparency vs. Individual Privacy

July 29, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

IN SOUTH CAROLINA, THE TROUBLE WITH THE PUBLIC SECTOR IS THAT IT’S BECOMING PRIVATE . . . AND VICE VERSA It’s common shorthand to refer to the governmental and non-governmental…

Health Care

Burwell: What Does It Mean?

July 23, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

THE BOTTOM LINE: WASHINGTON DOESN’T FORCE; IT BRIBES. Halbig v. Burwell, the legal case that’s now threatening to unravel ObamaCare, reaffirms this basic principle: that the federal government rarely usurps state…

Individual Liberty

Why S.C. Needs a Constitutional Carry Law

July 21, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

MORE FREEDOM, LESS CRIME A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be…

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How Federal Funding Has Ruined S.C.’s Roads

July 17, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT As South Carolinians hit the roads for summer vacations, they’ll  have plenty of opportunities to discuss the state’s poorly maintained roadways. The potholes,…

Health Care

Medicaid Expansion by Any Other Name

July 15, 2014 South Carolina Policy Council

WHY THE ‘PRIVATE OPTION’ ISN’T PRIVATE AND SHOULDN’T BE AN OPTION ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion destroys states’ budgets, inflicts serious economic harm, and does little or nothing to help the uninsured. Many officials in “red”…

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