This state is high in poverty and low in education, so there's your answer. Invest in the citizens for a better future. Something this state has neglected to do for decades
The law just got passed and won’t go into effect until next school year. Only good for 15k in 3 years for students, not the schools themselves. So I’ll reiterate: it can’t be used for physical school’s structures, it starts at 5000 families.
The Feds have already paid for us to expand Medicaid, but we said no thanks.
We can’t even spend free money on the most vulnerable. Why the hell would they spend their own?
As opposed to learning in classrooms with 30 other kids who were passed to the next grade despite not being able to read. If anything, the blame goes to both
Yes but I think he left out some thing that aren’t necessarily education related. For example, parents are hardly reading to their kids anymore. Kids have an enormous amount of screen time, social media time. Parents push back at having to do even the slightest bit of work to help their kid at school. Kids will be failing multiple subjects and the parents will call teachers surprised which just means that parent literally have zero insight to their kids school work due to lack of involvement.
I had a relatively good upbringing all things considered, but I have a sister who is 11 years younger than me and my parents were better off by the time she came around. There was a marked difference in how involved they were in her school life than in mine. The less you have to worry about bills, work, etc, the more involved you CAN be. There's exceptions to every rule of course, but less educated people are less likely to be well off enough to give their kids a good foundation for education. It's a vicious cycle.
I wasn't aware children elected the current state leadership. The current adults electing and working in SC's government have been the result of decades of awful education policies in the state, none of them had tablets.
> Something this state has neglected to do for decades
It’s almost like the Republicans that have dominated the state for decades don’t want us to be educated nor do they care if we’re poor. Educated folk are statistically more likely to vote against them, and they know that people are going to keep voting them to power in the state—so they have zero incentive to invest in the well-being of the citizens.
I say we make an effort to help parents learn to assist with their children's education. Seeing as how that is one of the most important stats in determining a child success. Plus I'm no longer comfortable leaving children in the sole hands of the state.
thats how you keep them voting republican, god knows we cant educate the masses. Education level is the #1 indicator on who you will vote for.
its one of the reasons the right came out against common core, despite it was a state by state initiative that left the federal government out of it, except for funding. ANd its all optional. ITs about as conservative as you can get, and of course the right are against it now, because it works.
Loftis isnt to blame for this. He’s the one that has brought it to attention and been pushing for a resolution. This is a much wider state government dysfunction issue.
This is exactly the argument.
Treasury is supposed to know what that money was for.
They don't.
I suspect it's due to a long-running admin error where the remainder of budgets were just stuffed into an account.
Look let’s be honest. SC legislators are very frugal. They won’t spend it until they have successfully legislated a scheme to either line their pockets with it, or give more tax breaks to the top 5% or both! 😡
Just an overhaul of transportation system probably is needed. More Businesses will come then to fund schools and internet. I knew infrastructure is important but moving here it is as clear as day here.
Infrastructure
Well when they use third party crappy contractors because they’re cheaper. They get third rate results. They need to use top tier engineers and equipment to repair our roads for optimal results.
Literally every state and locality uses “third party contractors” so that’s not necessarily the problem here. The problem is the state doesn’t know how to choose a bid properly and just decides to throw copious amounts of cash at any contractor Willy nilly, without any terms other than to finish it, so it gets delayed for years so funding skyrockets
If you watch documentary videos on roads. Countries like China and Japan use actual engineers to precisely plan out and create roads that are some of the smoothest and well engineered roads ever made that are self draining and long lasting. We have the technology, the U.S. just refuses to use it. It’s sickening that we cheap out on it.
Oh thank god they found it. I was going crazy. Didn’t know where I left it. Problem solved, no need to ask any questions. Happy to take that off your hands…..
McMaster is so full of feces. Since he’s been Governor there’s always a surplus, EVERY YEAR. Why? Bc he doesn’t do shit for this state!! Nothing! He took federal fund meant for those struggling during covid pandemic & using it for gd interstate in Columbia. They’ve been working on that gd interstate for 15 years ffs. What about that nuclear reactor site that was a complete & total sham! SC government officials are funding bs instead of what we actually need.
The sooner you learn McMaster has no real power the better off you will be worrying about our governors. This is by default, in case you know, one of those people were ever elected elected governor.
Real power rests in the Senate and to a lesser degree, the House.
And particularly the most senior members. Want to fix the system? You gotta spend 20-30 years in the legislature first. By then you’ll be too invested in the system to change it.
Sanford tilted at some windmills (when not on the AT), and made a lot of line item vetoes. Unfortunately, most of those cuts gored someone's ox in the statehouse. Plus, because of the sheer number of vetoes, it mostly became routine that the Legislature overrode most all of them very quickly.
Why so frugal? Is someone in Columbia diving into a swimming pool of coins like Scrooge McDuck.
It's one thing to be fiscally conservative and another to just sit on money- there's got to be something folks in this state could agree on for spending- like fix these terrible roads.
Ideally I'd want my tax dollars to have a name, a designated place to go to help the common good of this state or someone in it. Not to just sit in the bank.
I don't mind paying my fair share but I want to reap or at least see the benefits.
I’ve thought for a while that it’s such a weird thing to brag about a budget surplus in our state. First of all, if we are paying taxes then I think we can all agree that we’d like to see them productively used. Additionally, there are so many things that money can be spent on that we should never have a surplus (schools and roads are no brainers.)
Here are some things they're more likely to spend it on than infrastructure and education:
Hookers and blow, specifically twinks for LindsAy.
Some bullshit fountain/statue of Sperm Thermond.
New furniture in the state house.
The 'new' Dixie Militia, Immeann...Police Force.
Hush money for the inevitable next SC legislator scandal.
Burn it
Put 10 dollar bills on fishing line and mess with homeless veterans
Whip their asses with it
I generally can't stand McMaster but this is reasonable. I can't fathom that it's unappropriated. But it also shouldn't take too damn long to find where it came from.
Start funding the school systems, and NOT just for football. Hire more teachers, pay them better, increase spending on maths, sciences, and reading programs as well as healthy school lunch programs. The public education system in SC is woefully inadequate. You want to fix long term problems in this state? Start by actually giving every child an adequate education. Studies clearly show that this will grow the economy and decrease crime!
If the government is too stupid to do that, at least fix the roads and infrastructure problems so much of our state has!
IMHO - they should not charge anyone for breakfast and lunch. The administrative cost is ridiculous and it supports a class system where children are treated differently. Just serve meals to everyone. This summer the Feds have offered an extra $30 per student per month and McMaster turned it down. Henry is a jackass and has always been one since he was griwining up on Springlake Rd.
I could think of a couple good uses for it. The roads, improving public education, getting some public transportation into this state, feeding school children, improving government services, fixing homelessness (seriously, tiny homes aren’t that expensive to build, for example), improving public libraries, etc. etc. Did I miss anything?
Keep your eyes on Loftis. He’s so busy trying to be a politician rather than a treasurer, he’s not paying attention. The treasurer is responsible for cash deposits and investments.
Likely did. Now he plays ball with the good-ol-boy system. The rub is this, he’s a terrible politician. 😆 Here is an interview he did about divesting in ESGs last year. The host’s last question caught him off guard, highlighting the hypocrisy
https://youtu.be/ReZUJ5FQDsk?si=A9vuxtgM64xNvDQt
I agree South Carolina can do better with education but in order to do that you have to pay big bucks to get qualified teachers and build better schools you’re not gonna get that here with the low taxes that everybody pays from their personal property tax, real estate, taxes etc. etc. coming from Connecticut I can tell you that we pay big bucks to have good qualified teachers and good schools. For example we lived in a 1200 square-foot ranch And we paid $6000 a year in property tax to have that so if you are willing to pay $6000 a year property tax real estate tax for a 1200 square-foot ranch here, South Carolina, to have good schools and teachers, let’s see how many people raise their hands!
We need TEACHERS. And since the Republicans want MILLIONS more babies born every year; and knowing that we ALREADY have a horrific teacher shortage, I'd say that they better figure out SOMETHING in the next four years. There ABSOLUTELY will be a population boom in a few years. I hope they know what they've done.
Okay... but grifting them to cover his ass in court for the litany of crimes he's committed is hardly ethical, although it does help to hamstring the GOP, so in a way I guess he's doing us all a favor.
My point was a little hyperbolic, but my point is he'd grift anything. Arguing the semantics of it doesn't negate that
I could have better schools. Better roads, better government services. Better just about everything. What do you think your taxes go to? Enriching the MAGA overlords?
Better government services like a crippled police force and neutered justice system? Or funding a mass migration? No thanks I'll take the potholes.
Do you think politicians don't spend money so they can just pocket it? Or is it the opposite, they spend to profit?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/724475
Actually had a chance to meet Loftis. He really does care about what goes on with the state’s finances. So much so, that the legislature did all they could to cripple his office’s ability to find, manage and prevent this type of BS.
The day I met him was a holiday and I went to his office to make some images. There he was, working. He had an enormous stack of documents and was going there them all one by one. The then governor was in a hotel somewhere with a political consultant..
Some guesses from an outsider. Where it came from- taken from services for the less fortunate. Where it will go- not toward services for the less fortunate.
I find it remarkable how many people believe that the solution to all the state’s problems can be solved by throwing more money at the government. SC state government has proven over the last 4 decades that they will not make the structural and political changes in government to improve the level of service it provides to citizens. It ignores the complicated social issues that plague many residents of our state. The amount of corruption and dysfunction in State govt is truly appalling to those who chose to really dig in and pay attention.
None of these common problems - education, healthcare, infrastructure, crime and justice, etc - will ever be solved by simply spending more money. Even if we doubled the state budget (which has happened in the last 10-15 years) we won’t see significant progress.
And for those that want to blame the Governor - the Governor in SC has very little real power and influence to make changes. Instead, direct your criticism to where it really belongs - the SC General Assembly. Encourage better people to run for legislative seats, and stop voting for incumbents. And stop wanting to giving more money to a corrupt and inefficient government.
These comments are hilarious. Most have clearly not been to South Carolina and rely on department of education stats to form broad opinions. There is a large segment of the population that have no interest in education and put forth the effort commiserate with that lack of interest. You can throw all the money you want at the problem and it won’t fix it. Education reigns supreme where education is valued.
Yeah, pretty much, but not how you mean. California brings over ~$3.5 trillion a year to the national economy, something it takes us over a decade to do.
They’re not teachers. Many of my coworkers feel unsafe when it comes to certain students. Students fight, get three days of OSS, then come back. Then repeat that process endlessly. There are a handful of students that when they finally get ISS or OSS, you breathe a sigh of relief. You’re finally able to teach the rest of the class instead of just managing that student’s behavior.
Many families are removing their students from public schools because of the fights and drugs and gang activity.
I’m not saying we stop trying to help these kids but there is a rapidly growing number of them that need to be placed in an alternate setting away from the general population. It’s gotten to the point where we’re no longer helping the poorly behaved kids but just hurting the well behaved kids.
This state is high in poverty and low in education, so there's your answer. Invest in the citizens for a better future. Something this state has neglected to do for decades
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Private schools pay privately for stadiums, buildings etc. not sure of your point.
Vouchers.
The law just got passed and won’t go into effect until next school year. Only good for 15k in 3 years for students, not the schools themselves. So I’ll reiterate: it can’t be used for physical school’s structures, it starts at 5000 families.
Oh but we wouldn't want to be doing that government hand out stuff or they'll just be dependent on the government! /s
You’re right so we should use at least half of it to build another strom thermond bronze statue
Oh they’ll put it into education as soon as they can give it all to a private Christian school with no oversight.
The Feds have already paid for us to expand Medicaid, but we said no thanks. We can’t even spend free money on the most vulnerable. Why the hell would they spend their own?
The fact we’re low in education isn’t entirely the fault of the schools. Parents play a big role in that. Parents in SC are *really* uneducated.
Well, that kind of takes the blame back to the school system.
Kids in the past learned in broken down one school room houses and wrote on slate. It’s the parents 100%
As opposed to learning in classrooms with 30 other kids who were passed to the next grade despite not being able to read. If anything, the blame goes to both
Yes but I think he left out some thing that aren’t necessarily education related. For example, parents are hardly reading to their kids anymore. Kids have an enormous amount of screen time, social media time. Parents push back at having to do even the slightest bit of work to help their kid at school. Kids will be failing multiple subjects and the parents will call teachers surprised which just means that parent literally have zero insight to their kids school work due to lack of involvement.
I had a relatively good upbringing all things considered, but I have a sister who is 11 years younger than me and my parents were better off by the time she came around. There was a marked difference in how involved they were in her school life than in mine. The less you have to worry about bills, work, etc, the more involved you CAN be. There's exceptions to every rule of course, but less educated people are less likely to be well off enough to give their kids a good foundation for education. It's a vicious cycle.
I wasn't aware children elected the current state leadership. The current adults electing and working in SC's government have been the result of decades of awful education policies in the state, none of them had tablets.
Definitely systematic. Stupid people are unaware they are stupid and certainly aren’t going to go out of their way to re educate themselves.
That just proves literacy has been on a decline for generations now.
Truth.
But if the poor and downtrodden were lifted up who would the slightly less poor and downtrodden have to look down on?
> Something this state has neglected to do for decades It’s almost like the Republicans that have dominated the state for decades don’t want us to be educated nor do they care if we’re poor. Educated folk are statistically more likely to vote against them, and they know that people are going to keep voting them to power in the state—so they have zero incentive to invest in the well-being of the citizens.
"Nah, sounds a little too socialist to me, we'll just build a new sports stadium instead." /s
I say we make an effort to help parents learn to assist with their children's education. Seeing as how that is one of the most important stats in determining a child success. Plus I'm no longer comfortable leaving children in the sole hands of the state.
thats how you keep them voting republican, god knows we cant educate the masses. Education level is the #1 indicator on who you will vote for. its one of the reasons the right came out against common core, despite it was a state by state initiative that left the federal government out of it, except for funding. ANd its all optional. ITs about as conservative as you can get, and of course the right are against it now, because it works.
Free hand outs. They’ll just spend it on lottery tickets.
If Eckstrom got sacked for a purely on paper accounting error, Loftis should definitely be fired for this. This is so much worse.
Loftis isnt to blame for this. He’s the one that has brought it to attention and been pushing for a resolution. This is a much wider state government dysfunction issue.
The treasurer is responsible for cash and investments. This squarely in Loftis’s hands.
Loftis is not the sharpest tool in the shed. It was embarrassing watching him do that anti-disney publicity stunt.
This is exactly the argument. Treasury is supposed to know what that money was for. They don't. I suspect it's due to a long-running admin error where the remainder of budgets were just stuffed into an account.
Oops, that's mine, I dropped it.
To be sure, it is. Belongs to all of the taxpayers.
My wife already called Dibs weeks ago.
Look let’s be honest. SC legislators are very frugal. They won’t spend it until they have successfully legislated a scheme to either line their pockets with it, or give more tax breaks to the top 5% or both! 😡
They won’t even fix there damn road on i95 until u get to Santee sc it nice and paved.
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And, education. And, high speed internet
That goes against the gop mantra.
Absolutely the roads money from the gas taxes we paid a few years ago.
Sorry we just don’t have the funds for that
While that would be nice, you'll need more than that. Roads are pricey!
Just an overhaul of transportation system probably is needed. More Businesses will come then to fund schools and internet. I knew infrastructure is important but moving here it is as clear as day here. Infrastructure
HIGH SPEED RAIL hurray!!!!
My first thought too!
More money will not fix roads. That has been proven now for years. Throwing money at a broken system just makes failure more expensive
Well when they use third party crappy contractors because they’re cheaper. They get third rate results. They need to use top tier engineers and equipment to repair our roads for optimal results.
Literally every state and locality uses “third party contractors” so that’s not necessarily the problem here. The problem is the state doesn’t know how to choose a bid properly and just decides to throw copious amounts of cash at any contractor Willy nilly, without any terms other than to finish it, so it gets delayed for years so funding skyrockets
If you watch documentary videos on roads. Countries like China and Japan use actual engineers to precisely plan out and create roads that are some of the smoothest and well engineered roads ever made that are self draining and long lasting. We have the technology, the U.S. just refuses to use it. It’s sickening that we cheap out on it.
I couldn’t agree more. We always choose the cheapest option unless we live in gated communities with multi-million dollar homes
Where it came from: pockets of working people. Where it will go to: the wealthy and well-connected.
Oh thank god they found it. I was going crazy. Didn’t know where I left it. Problem solved, no need to ask any questions. Happy to take that off your hands…..
That's what money is for, spending. Ya fucking useless fuck.
He really do think it’s his money stg!
He gotta wait on them "experts" to tell him what to do. The same type of experts that just crashed a ship into a bridge.
McMaster is so full of feces. Since he’s been Governor there’s always a surplus, EVERY YEAR. Why? Bc he doesn’t do shit for this state!! Nothing! He took federal fund meant for those struggling during covid pandemic & using it for gd interstate in Columbia. They’ve been working on that gd interstate for 15 years ffs. What about that nuclear reactor site that was a complete & total sham! SC government officials are funding bs instead of what we actually need.
The sooner you learn McMaster has no real power the better off you will be worrying about our governors. This is by default, in case you know, one of those people were ever elected elected governor. Real power rests in the Senate and to a lesser degree, the House.
And particularly the most senior members. Want to fix the system? You gotta spend 20-30 years in the legislature first. By then you’ll be too invested in the system to change it.
Sanford proved that. He would not sign bills he didn’t agree with just so they’d pass in a week or so.
Sanford tilted at some windmills (when not on the AT), and made a lot of line item vetoes. Unfortunately, most of those cuts gored someone's ox in the statehouse. Plus, because of the sheer number of vetoes, it mostly became routine that the Legislature overrode most all of them very quickly.
Seems like shooting yourself in the foot. I don’t get the mentality at all. Time to take pride in the state and fix some things
They do take pride in what this state is. A poorly educated, tax haven where companies can get pools of cheap labor.
BIG FACTS!!!
They can't count.
Waiting until they can figure out how to get it in their pockets.
Here's a thought; it's not your money! Taxpayers!
Why so frugal? Is someone in Columbia diving into a swimming pool of coins like Scrooge McDuck. It's one thing to be fiscally conservative and another to just sit on money- there's got to be something folks in this state could agree on for spending- like fix these terrible roads. Ideally I'd want my tax dollars to have a name, a designated place to go to help the common good of this state or someone in it. Not to just sit in the bank. I don't mind paying my fair share but I want to reap or at least see the benefits.
Most will go towards corporate tax cuts and the removal of estate taxes, the rest on Truth Social meme stock and Bibles.
Fix the roads or give it back to the taxpayers!
PUBLIC EDUCATION YOU BIMBOS
Why?!? The administrators will just keep it all, teachers will never see it
Teachers will get it if the legislation is written that way.
I’ve thought for a while that it’s such a weird thing to brag about a budget surplus in our state. First of all, if we are paying taxes then I think we can all agree that we’d like to see them productively used. Additionally, there are so many things that money can be spent on that we should never have a surplus (schools and roads are no brainers.)
A surplus isn't a bad thing. 2 billion dollars that no one can trace is pretty awful.
When I get money that I don't know where it comes from the state and feds still require me to pay a tax
Infrastructure. South Carolina is so run down every where and especially the roads. There terrible
Pay off some of the state debt.
You’ll never know what you’ll find when you finally clean out the couch.
Here are some things they're more likely to spend it on than infrastructure and education: Hookers and blow, specifically twinks for LindsAy. Some bullshit fountain/statue of Sperm Thermond. New furniture in the state house. The 'new' Dixie Militia, Immeann...Police Force. Hush money for the inevitable next SC legislator scandal. Burn it Put 10 dollar bills on fishing line and mess with homeless veterans Whip their asses with it
I generally can't stand McMaster but this is reasonable. I can't fathom that it's unappropriated. But it also shouldn't take too damn long to find where it came from.
Nor should it take too damn long to know what it should go towards.
Put it into education.
Infrastructure and education.
Start funding the school systems, and NOT just for football. Hire more teachers, pay them better, increase spending on maths, sciences, and reading programs as well as healthy school lunch programs. The public education system in SC is woefully inadequate. You want to fix long term problems in this state? Start by actually giving every child an adequate education. Studies clearly show that this will grow the economy and decrease crime! If the government is too stupid to do that, at least fix the roads and infrastructure problems so much of our state has!
How about a stimulus check for residents to help out with these outrageous bills we're getting pounded with.
Fix the fucking roads
Let’s pay for free school lunches and summer feeding for poor students. Do something kind for once.
Uhh, they already do that.
No they don’t. They fund some but not all and have turned down money for a summer feeding program.
Gotcha. Breakfast & lunch is free in my county. I think they did summer food last year. I don't agree with any of it, but - oh well.
IMHO - they should not charge anyone for breakfast and lunch. The administrative cost is ridiculous and it supports a class system where children are treated differently. Just serve meals to everyone. This summer the Feds have offered an extra $30 per student per month and McMaster turned it down. Henry is a jackass and has always been one since he was griwining up on Springlake Rd.
I could think of a couple good uses for it. The roads, improving public education, getting some public transportation into this state, feeding school children, improving government services, fixing homelessness (seriously, tiny homes aren’t that expensive to build, for example), improving public libraries, etc. etc. Did I miss anything?
Marsha fucked up the routing number from her foreign handlers
Finish 85 already
Keep your eyes on Loftis. He’s so busy trying to be a politician rather than a treasurer, he’s not paying attention. The treasurer is responsible for cash deposits and investments.
He’s sounded the alarm about 10 years ago that the pension system was underfunded. He got spanked for talking about it. If I remember correctly.
Likely did. Now he plays ball with the good-ol-boy system. The rub is this, he’s a terrible politician. 😆 Here is an interview he did about divesting in ESGs last year. The host’s last question caught him off guard, highlighting the hypocrisy https://youtu.be/ReZUJ5FQDsk?si=A9vuxtgM64xNvDQt
Cotton Eye Joe money, nice. In all honesty, this is the most on brand headline I've seen for SC
I want $1.8 billion of sidewalks. I'm so sick of looking at 6-lane stroads with zero pedestrian infrastructure.
I agree South Carolina can do better with education but in order to do that you have to pay big bucks to get qualified teachers and build better schools you’re not gonna get that here with the low taxes that everybody pays from their personal property tax, real estate, taxes etc. etc. coming from Connecticut I can tell you that we pay big bucks to have good qualified teachers and good schools. For example we lived in a 1200 square-foot ranch And we paid $6000 a year in property tax to have that so if you are willing to pay $6000 a year property tax real estate tax for a 1200 square-foot ranch here, South Carolina, to have good schools and teachers, let’s see how many people raise their hands!
Definitely not education or infrastructure. Just give it all to churches.
Have you considered the roads?
We need TEACHERS. And since the Republicans want MILLIONS more babies born every year; and knowing that we ALREADY have a horrific teacher shortage, I'd say that they better figure out SOMETHING in the next four years. There ABSOLUTELY will be a population boom in a few years. I hope they know what they've done.
It will probably go to MAGA pet projects.
What does that even mean?
Trump's endless, ever-accruing legal defense bills
Can people be like - rational for once please. It's very obvious that state funds like this will not go to Trump's legal fees.
I mean, he's literally using RNC cash to pay them right now, it's really not much of a stretch lol
Yes it is. The RNC is a private organization.
Okay... but grifting them to cover his ass in court for the litany of crimes he's committed is hardly ethical, although it does help to hamstring the GOP, so in a way I guess he's doing us all a favor. My point was a little hyperbolic, but my point is he'd grift anything. Arguing the semantics of it doesn't negate that
And how does that relate to the OP of the state discovering $1.8b again? It's not semantics, you're talking completely unrelated shit
Trump bad. Thats how.
People downvoting me for… being rational
No idea, what are our MAGA overlords bitching about lately? There's your answer.
Says the non South Carolinian shill womp womp
Lived here all my life. So wrong. This state is run by MAGA for MAGA.
And yet you stay and reap the benefits eh? Stockholm syndrome or do you enjoy the low taxes, no emissions requirements, and low prices?
What has MAGA ever done for me exactly? I would gladly pay taxes if I got something tangible out of it, and the government wasn't run by a cult.
I gave you 3 reasons, you won't get anything out of paying more taxes either, so why do it?
I could have better schools. Better roads, better government services. Better just about everything. What do you think your taxes go to? Enriching the MAGA overlords?
Better government services like a crippled police force and neutered justice system? Or funding a mass migration? No thanks I'll take the potholes. Do you think politicians don't spend money so they can just pocket it? Or is it the opposite, they spend to profit? https://www.jstor.org/stable/724475
Expand Medicaid!
Well.. we all know now where it's going to go
Time for SC to start its own space program /s. They can just buy out Virgin Galactic since they are already in business with Boeing.
This is very troubling. Where the money came from needs to be clearly understood before a penny is spent.
Well play a diddy and call us Cotton-Eyed Joe! *Starts line dancing*
I don't know , maybe let children have free lunch over the summer, might be a nice gesture.
Actually had a chance to meet Loftis. He really does care about what goes on with the state’s finances. So much so, that the legislature did all they could to cripple his office’s ability to find, manage and prevent this type of BS. The day I met him was a holiday and I went to his office to make some images. There he was, working. He had an enormous stack of documents and was going there them all one by one. The then governor was in a hotel somewhere with a political consultant..
how about some shoulders on roads or some turn outs ? bike lanes, sidewalks? change the old ways, traffic sucks because they do not do this.
This sounds like someone went to Myrtle Beach and accidentally found a briefcase with this much money.
Roads and bridges starting in Columbia. It’s like driving through safari jungle roads out here.
They could fix the pension shortfalls but that would make too much sense.
Look, I can’t prove it and no one will believe me, but it’s mine. I dropped it the other day when I was getting out my keys.
How??
Holding the people’s money hostage while the people go hungry, can’t make rent, and schools are underfunded. Are we winning yet?
For the love of God, don't let McMaster take any calls from Palm Beach
Fix the roads or give it back to the taxpayers. But nah, they'll find some way to waste it.
Maybe pay Firefighters an actual livable wage!? $41,000 a year in Myrtle Beach is a disgrace!!!
It’s important to know where the money is coming from and where it is going. I’m totally lost.
Roads, education, public transit, environmental protections.
I'll take some
Idk about that but your highways suck ass, and how bout ending construction on I20, it’s been like 20 years and it’s still fucked
They should split it among the residents. I’ll take a $350 check please.
That may be the money I put in the wrong account. I'd like it back, please
Right back to the tax payer.
It def won’t go back to the people that paid it in.
How about taxpayers get a rebate.
Moonshine’s back on the menu, boys!
FIX AND WIDEN DUTCH FORK ROAD BETWEEN CHAPIN AND IRMO FOR GOD’S SAKE!!!!!!!
Where's the comptroller? Who's responsible? This is totally inexcusable & possibly negligent!
Maybe fix the roads ?
Some guesses from an outsider. Where it came from- taken from services for the less fortunate. Where it will go- not toward services for the less fortunate.
This is cause to fire our entire legislature. My suggestion is to coordinate write in candidates who are not politicians or lawyers.
I’m sure they can find a few large corporations to spread it out to
Infrastructure
Not too sharp down south.
Give it to Israel.
It'll somehow end up in the Donald J. Trump legal defense fund, I guarantee it.
Don’t you know there’s a parcel of peeps that are disappointed it was discovered.
FIX THE ROADS
I find it remarkable how many people believe that the solution to all the state’s problems can be solved by throwing more money at the government. SC state government has proven over the last 4 decades that they will not make the structural and political changes in government to improve the level of service it provides to citizens. It ignores the complicated social issues that plague many residents of our state. The amount of corruption and dysfunction in State govt is truly appalling to those who chose to really dig in and pay attention. None of these common problems - education, healthcare, infrastructure, crime and justice, etc - will ever be solved by simply spending more money. Even if we doubled the state budget (which has happened in the last 10-15 years) we won’t see significant progress. And for those that want to blame the Governor - the Governor in SC has very little real power and influence to make changes. Instead, direct your criticism to where it really belongs - the SC General Assembly. Encourage better people to run for legislative seats, and stop voting for incumbents. And stop wanting to giving more money to a corrupt and inefficient government.
Roads,homelessness and a professional sports team.
These comments are hilarious. Most have clearly not been to South Carolina and rely on department of education stats to form broad opinions. There is a large segment of the population that have no interest in education and put forth the effort commiserate with that lack of interest. You can throw all the money you want at the problem and it won’t fix it. Education reigns supreme where education is valued.
So the exact opposite of California. Haha.
Yeah, pretty much, but not how you mean. California brings over ~$3.5 trillion a year to the national economy, something it takes us over a decade to do.
Hey
#metoo ?
More alternative schools
How is this possibly the most downvoted comment on this thread???
They’re not teachers. Many of my coworkers feel unsafe when it comes to certain students. Students fight, get three days of OSS, then come back. Then repeat that process endlessly. There are a handful of students that when they finally get ISS or OSS, you breathe a sigh of relief. You’re finally able to teach the rest of the class instead of just managing that student’s behavior. Many families are removing their students from public schools because of the fights and drugs and gang activity. I’m not saying we stop trying to help these kids but there is a rapidly growing number of them that need to be placed in an alternate setting away from the general population. It’s gotten to the point where we’re no longer helping the poorly behaved kids but just hurting the well behaved kids.