The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Independent Business Legislation for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst independent business legislation of 2009,it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. Independent…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Elections Legislation for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst elections legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. Elections serve a number…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Property Rights Legislation for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst property rights’ legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. As our…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Property Rights Legislation for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst property rights’ legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. As our new…
Fast Facts: South Carolina’s Sales Tax
Fast Facts: South Carolina’s Sales Tax South Carolina needs sales tax reform that is equitable and encourages economic growth. The best way to achieve this goal is to lower…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Tax and Spending Legislation for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst tax and spending legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. The big…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Tax and Spending Legislation for 2009-2010
As we review thebest and worst tax and spending legislation of 2009,it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. The…
25 Ways to Unleash Capitalism in South Carolina
25 Ways to Unleash Capitalism in South Carolina Want to know 25 ways we can unleash opportunity, freedom and hope in South Carolina? Here are 25 ideas taken from the…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Education Policy for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst education legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. There is…
A Review of Transparency Policy for 2009-2010
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Transparency Policy for 2009-2010 As we review the best and worst transparency legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what…
Taxpayers Lose in Government-Funded Lobbying Game
When taxpayers were promised the $800 billion federal stimulus package was going to create jobs, few realized this meant more government jobs. Some government jobs – police officers and teachers,…
Unleashing Capitalism Fact Sheet
Unleashing Capitalism A Prescription for Economic Prosperity in South Carolina FACT SHEET Capitalism (n): an economic system characterized by private ownership of capital goods and investments determined by private decision;…
Policy Council Testifies on Sales Tax
By Dr. Jameson Taylor Director of Research TRAC Testimony: November 12, 2009 Lower the Rate and Eliminate Sales Tax Exemptions South Carolina needs sales tax reform that is equitable and…
How School Choice Can Create Jobs
HOW SCHOOL CHOICE CAN CREATE JOBS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA AN EXPERIMENTAL CASE STUDY OF FIVE COUNTIES Sven R. Larson, Ph.D. Our findings are based on the research of Russell…
Fast Facts About the Budget & Control Board
South Carolina's Budget & Control Board (BCB) is a unique state agency, the only one of its kind in the country. While the Board itself is technically made up of…
A Review of Environmental Policy for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst environmental legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. Following a…
A Review of Environmental Policy for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst environmental legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface during the 2010 session. Following a…
S.C. Medicaid: More Spending, Lower Quality Care on the Horizon
As the Policy Council has previously reported, South Carolina’s Medicaid spending has increased rapidly in recent years. South Carolina already spends more than 20 percent of its total $21 billion…
The Best and Worst to Come: A Review of Health Care Policy for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst health care legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to remerge during the 2010 session. Since…
The Best & Worst to Come: A Review of Economic Development Policy for 2009-2010
As we review the best and worst economic development legislation of 2009, it’s also time to begin to consider what ideas are likely to resurface in 2010. Politicians in South…
Tech Schools Board Shells Out $200K for “Lobbying”
To entice legislators to send more money its way, the S.C. State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education will pay a Columbia advertising agency up to $200,000 to design a…
School District’s Foray into E-Books Inefficient, Ill-Advised
Authors: SCPC and Kevin Dietrich With the money Greenwood School District 52 spent on more than two dozen E-book reading devices this summer, it could have bought thousands of paperback…
The S.C. General Assembly: Best and Worst of 2009
Welcome to the inaugural publication of The S.C. General Assembly: Best & Worst of 2009. Our aim here is to highlight the best and worst ideas of the 2009 session.…
Fast Facts: South Carolina’s Corporate Income Tax
Instead of playing games with tax credits and economic development boondoggles, the best way for the state to attract new business is to lower taxes. In particular, lawmakers should eliminate…
Stimulus Task Force Says Agencies Moving Forward Despite Contradictions
By: Geoff Pallay and Kevin Dietrich Despite a lack of direction from federal officials, state agencies in South Carolina claim to be on track for complying with stimulus funding guidelines,…
Why Tort Reform Needs to Be Part of Health Care Reform
Authors: SCPC and Geoff Pallay At the mention of tort reform at any one of the recent health care town halls across the state, crowds cheered with delight. Virtually no…
A Look into the Future of Alternative Energy
Alternative energy advocates unveiled elaborate visions of what green energy could mean for South Carolina’s future during a climate change conference last week at South Carolina State University. State and…
Innovista: A Public-Private Partnership That’s All Public
It would appear the “private” aspect of Innovista, originally touted as a “public-private partnership,” is all but dead. To date, USC’s research campus, which has cost taxpayers more than $100…
Legislature Sticks Taxpayers With $1.45 Million Bill for Hydrogen Fueling Stations
here were no two ways about it: as legislators worked through the spring to cobble together a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, they claimed South Carolina was on the…
SAT Scores Drop, Achievement Gap Widens
South Carolina student performance on the 2009 SAT dropped by 9 points to a lowest-in-the-South average score of 1452, according to an S.C. Policy Council analysis of the 2009 College…