This remains a top priority. In 2015, even though they claimed it couldn’t be done, we sent over $300 million to maintenance and repair of local roads. It’s estimated our state will receive almost $1.2 billion in new money from multiple sources this year. $750 million of that will be recurring (yearly) funds. We (once [...]
We ran a professional survey on this issue and released the results in a press release statewide. Where media actually picked it up, there were groups all over the state who began using it as leverage in an attempt to persuade their senators not to raise our taxes. At the end of the session, the [...]
The tax-increase flavor of the month, is the gas tax. Some legislators, including some Republicans, for years have called for a gas tax increase as a means of funding road and bridge repair. These same Republicans, and their Democrat allies, of course always have voted against proposals, like the half a dozen that I have [...]
Dear Greenville County Voters, I recently learned that the referendum on the November 4, 2014 ballot which will ask you to raise county sales taxes by one cent, ostensibly to fund roads, will affect things very differently than you may have been lead to believe. The ordinance, if passed, will add one cent to the [...]
