Budget cuts and tax plans face returning South Carolina lawmakers
Legislators return to the State House amid a 350 million dollar budget gap with proposals to raise sales taxes and cut auto and house reassessments. Restructuring is debated while tax cut plans seek relief on auto, home, and income taxes and cigarette and lottery tax changes.
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David Wilkins
Greenville
Senate
John Land
D- Manning
Land
Education plan trims some areas as funding rises
State Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum backs a modest funding increase for 2003-04 but cites concerns over cuts to early childhood, reading and writing, and teacher training. Sanford proposes about 29 million more in education spending plus lottery gains and savings, while local districts weigh millage impacts and tax options amid budget challenges.
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Tenenbaum
Sanford
Aiken County
Brock Heron
Heron
S.C. General Assembly
Tommy Moore
D-Clearwater
Moore
LIFE
Sanford budget Sketches Broad Changes to Education and Tax Policy
Governor Sanford proposes cutting 29.7 million in state education spending, shifting 20 million from lottery funds to raise per pupil funding to 1810. He reshapes higher ed budgets, merges Wil Lou Gray and the School for the Deaf and Blind, and ends Salkehatchie and Union USC operations. He calls for extending endowed chairs funding and tapping sales tax on lottery tickets to fund Medicaid and cut cigarette taxes to 5.9 percent.
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School For the Deaf and Blind
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Salkehatchie
Usc-Sumter
Central Carolina Technical College
Sumter
House
Bobby Harrell
Charleston
Harrell
Senate Finance
Hugh Leatherman
Florence
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