Written by: US Representative Mark Stanford The debate about whether or not to reform Social Security, while very slow getting started, has finally boiled down to the central question not of whether private markets will be used in fixing Social Security, but who should be in control of investment in those markets, you or the …
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Posted: January 12, 2006 by South Carolina Policy Council
How A Tobacco Tax Increase Would Negatively Impact South Carolina
Another Year, Another Tax Hike Proposal: How A Tobacco Tax Increase Would Negatively Impact South Carolina Tax and spend advocates have long argued that South Carolina needs to increase its sales tax on tobacco. For years their rationale was that South Carolina needed the extra tax revenue to provide a quick fix solution to the …
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Posted: November 17, 2005 by South Carolina Policy Council
Managed Care Provides Quality, Affordable Health Care
Authors: SCPC and Ashlee Landess For the past two years, pro-tax legislators in the General Assembly have talked about raising taxes to cover the extraordinary growth in Medicaid. Such measures have not succeeded, in large part because many lawmakers, including those in the House and Senate leadership, recognize the need to reform the system to …
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Posted: November 15, 2005 by South Carolina Policy Council
South Carolina Spending Cuts Good for Economy
Written by: Ashley Landess A liberal think-tank in Iowa made headlines when it chastised that states leaders for cutting spending and not raising taxes at the levels other states did. The author of the report is quoted as saying Iowa was clearly out of the mainstream of how states responded to the fiscal crisis. It …
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Posted: November 15, 2005 by South Carolina Policy Council
Dose of Healthy Competition Wakes up DMH
Authors: Edward T. McMullen Recent efforts to trim the fat off the sacred cow of state government has produced a strong whiplash by the defiant Department of Mental Health. In the last quarter of 1997, it was rumored that the cost to care for a consumer in our state hospital ran more than $300.00 …
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Posted: October 31, 2005 by South Carolina Policy Council
Patient-Centered Medicaid Reform
Authors: SCPC and Neil Mullen Medicaid is the Social Security program providing health care for those with low or limited incomes and special needs. Initially designed in the 1960s, it has seen only limited change in the last four decades. It delivers an essential service for the needy, but the nature of its structure is …
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Posted: March 15, 2005 by South Carolina Policy Council
Golf Industry Victim of Unconstitutional Practices
As a member of the Competitiveness Council member, I sit on the task force that is looking at one of our states leading industries, tourism. Tourism is the second largest producer of jobs in our state it employs about six percent of the work force. One of our challenges is not only to attract more …
Posted: March 1, 2005 by South Carolina Policy Council
Fiscal Impact of the 2005 Universal Scholarship Tax Credit Proposal
By: Cotton Lindsay, Ph.D. Click here to view the PDF version of this report.
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Posted: April 15, 2002 by South Carolina Policy Council
South Carolinas Dilemma: Increase Taxes or Reform Medicaid?
South Carolina is facing a serious crisis in providing funding for healthcare services to low-income persons through its Medicaid program. Clearly policymakers are faced with a critical dilemma either increase taxes to cover the funding shortfall for this program or actually sit down and evaluate the effectiveness of the entire Medicaid system. Yet even before …
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Posted: November 15, 2001 by South Carolina Policy Council
Lottery Revenues Not Stable
Written by: John Hill PhD. In a letter earlier this month to the states Chamber of Commerce, Governor Hodges attempted to woo its members into supporting his education lottery plan on the grounds it would allow South Carolina to join the 37 other states that have successful lotteries. The states Board of Economic Advisors has …
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Posted: June 15, 1999 by South Carolina Policy Council
What’s Best for Social Security
Written by: US Representative Mark Stanford The debate about whether or not to reform Social Security, while very slow getting started, has finally boiled down to the central question not of whether private markets will be used in fixing Social Security, but who should be in control of investment in those markets, you or the …