Cindi Ross Scoppe
Editorial Writer and Columnist at Post and Courier
Editorial writer and columnist for The Post and Courier of Charleston.
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6 days ago |
aikenstandard.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
In the S.C. House, members of the Freedom Caucus and even real Republicans were of course complaining Wednesday about the undelayed legislative pay raises, and not unreasonably so. But there was also restlessness over the House's failure to pass a quicker plan to slash income taxes, and the fact that what it did pass hasn't made it into law yet.
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1 week ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
I felt pretty confident that the unvetted, undebated 80 percent raise that state senators slid into the state budget for themselves and House members was going down in flames in the conference committee. After all, there had been no effort to raise pay until the amendment was sprung on the Senate last month, and two of the three Senate conferees had voted against it. Silly me.
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2 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
The final Tuesday of the 2025 legislative session was earmark day in the South Carolina House. Not earmark day as in the day the House larded up the state budget with pork; Senate Finance Chairman Harvey Peeler pulled a power play to prevent that from happening this year, and he allowed House Ways and Means Chairman Bruce Bannister to pretend it was a mutual decision. It was the day the House revolted against what apparently will be the very temporary end of earmarks. The day Rep.
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2 weeks ago |
aikenstandard.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
The final Tuesday of the 2025 legislative session was earmark day in the South Carolina House. Not earmark day as in the day the House larded up the state budget with pork; Senate Finance Chairman Harvey Peeler pulled a power play to prevent that from happening this year, and he allowed House Ways and Means Chairman Bruce Bannister to pretend it was a mutual decision. It was the day the House revolted against what apparently will be the very temporary end of earmarks. The day Rep.
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3 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
There are hundreds of differences between the House and Senate versions of the annual state budget — thousands if you count the dollar differences rather than just the provisos that tell state agencies how to spend the money … and sometimes other things that provisos shouldn’t do.
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My Sunday column explains how legislative leaders managed to keep the public, and even some senators, in the dark about negotiations on their 3 priority bills: https://t.co/iKyBtOm5iO
Is a sales tax really a tax? And how many people's taxes can you raise and still say you're cutting taxes? https://t.co/ZlKLOoDwuU
I awoke Monday to news that the Highway Patrol had just graduated a class of 20 new troopers. That sounded like good news until I heard the next part: bringing the total to 788. And I was startled. https://t.co/36N5t4nU4V