Joel Sawyer
Joel Sawyer
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This is about whether the House is going to pass a budget this year that limits state spending and shows sympathy for the hardworking taxpayers of our state.
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Whether you have one bill that grows government at 10.9 percent or try to spread the spending over three different bills, this is still not consistent with the House's previous statement on the need for a true spending cap. We don't understand why some in the House now appear to not be willing to live within the cap they've already passed on themselves.
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In Congress, Gov. Sanford had a record of opposing providing social services to illegal aliens.
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It's something they are going to address internally to make sure it doesn't happen again, and we're going to continue working hard to try to bring this project to South Carolina.
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It's statutory. And we asked city and county governmental agencies to comply.
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The bill in its current form does a lot less to address what businesses from across the state have told us. The workers' compensation system is broken and this doesn't do nearly enough.
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It's certainly not something we'd support. The governor has been talking for the better part of five years about restructuring government to make it more accountable to the executive branch. This runs completely counter to accountability in government.
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At the same time, taxpayers should be outraged that the Senate is spending almost a billion dollars more than what was being spent last year - and not a dime of new money is going to be returned to the hardworking people of this state.
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They both believe very strongly that preferential treatment should never be a factor when enforcing the law. The director has communicated that to (the) Highway Patrol very clearly at the governor's request.
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With less than 30 charter schools, we don't believe that they are having the kind of impact on the overall picture that they could be having.
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We're very pleased the House and Senate are moving forward on this. This bill is incredibly important to our state's ability to preserve and protect large tracts of land.
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We will be making an announcement tomorrow regarding the Department of Commerce, but I can't comment specifically about the announcement in advance of it.
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Tuition caps are a way to not only help control those increases but also to force more collaboration in the higher education system that in many ways is duplicative and inefficient.
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This is not an attack on anyone. This is about whether or not as a state we are going to follow a fiscally sound path.