Tag Archive: Taxes

Dr. Barbara Stock Nielsen, South Carolina’s first Republican Superintendent of Education, shares four key ideas to fix South Carolina’s broken education funding system. 

Transitioning to a defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees would be wise public policy for South Carolina taxpayers and would help us keep our promises to past, present and future state employees.

Will South Carolina leaders learn the lessons of the V.C. Summer nuclear debacle? Or will South Carolina taxpayers continue to foot the bill for "business as usual" in Columbia?

Economic growth supports peace, prosperity and strong families. In a recent visit to South Carolina, Dr. Arthur Laffer shared the not-so-secret "secret" for creating that growth.

How big is the budget? What are South Carolina’s sources of revenue? Where does all this money go? Consider these charts.

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

What is a "Tax Bracket Creep" and how does it affect you? In this week's Wren Report, Senator Chip Campsen (Charleston) talks about what the "creep" is and how it is being fought in the "Taxpayer Inflation Protection Act."

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.

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

We’ve stated for a long time that the number one thing South Carolina could do to increase our economic competitiveness is fundamental tax reform.