Tag Archive: Budget

How can we be compassionately responsive to the needs of low-to-middle income South Carolinians in regards to housing affordability?

Recently released job numbers for the month of March show that not only was there a rise in the number of jobs available to South Carolina residents, but also a rise in the number of people in the labor force.

South Carolina cannot afford to renege on the promises made to current state workers or fail to reform the system at large and risk crushing a future generation of tax payers.

For the sake of the states’ budgets and competitive federalism, it’s time for Congress and the states to say “no more” to sea-monster-sized, bureaucratic mandates.

Political will? Compromise? Institutional discipline? Long-term strategy? Do these virtues still exist in the General Assembly?

As the Laffer Curve simply illustrates, unreasonably high tax rates actually hurt the economy.

South Carolina might have a rocky fiscal road ahead according to a study recently released by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.