Blatant Reality

FITSNews posted “Ninety-Five theses” that Sic Willie is rumored to have come up with how the South Carolina state government should be reorganized/restructured. Here are just some of the few that I thought were interesting and worth mentioning.

19) The state’s personal income tax is hereby repealed, with the resulting increase in economic activity and capital investment coming into the state serving as sufficient revenue replacement.

 

20) The state’s income tax on businesses that employ fewer than fifty persons is hereby repealed, with the resulting increase in economic activity and capital investment coming into to the state serving as sufficient revenue replacement.

 

22) No private company in the State of South Carolina shall be permitted to solicit or accept union representation, engage in collective bargaining or hold a general strike.

 

29) An independent Commission on Best Budgeting Practices comprised of corporate leaders shall be established and charged with assigning specific rankings to each recommended disbursement of taxpayer funds in the state budget. These rankings shall be based on each budget item’s “essential and necessary value” toward achieving the broader objectives outlined in the new “zero-based, activity-specific” method of state budgeting.

 

34) Any spending item included in the state budget must bear the name of the individual legislator who sponsored it as well as the name of the individual legislator whose district is to benefit from it.

 

38) The use of taxpayer resources for the purpose of lobbying the legislature or any official of government is expressly forbidden. Public employees wishing to lobby the government must do so on their own time, using their own resources, like every other citizen.

 

50) The State of South Carolina shall maintain an Internet database searchable by a) elected official b) contributor (individual, corporate or other) and c) industry or lobby for all political contributions made to any elected official.

 

74) State colleges and universities are hereby prohibited from raising tuition at a rate exceeding the growth in population and inflation.

 

75) State colleges and universities and the Department of Education must immediately implement at 10% reduction in adminstrative force, while holding teachers and professors harmless.

 

81) South Carolina hereby refuses the acceptance of any radioactive waste within its borders that is not accompanied by a definitive timetable for removal.

 

86) The Ben Tillman, Jr. statue on the State House grounds is hereby removed and a permanent moratorium placed on the erection of any future memorials. Any memorials which are approved must be paid for exclusively with private funds.

 

89) The Confederate Flag compromise reached in 2000 shall be written into the new State Constitution and any bill which seeks to undo it shall have to be adopted as a Constitutional amendment.

 

94) Any South Carolinian who is 18 years of age or older and who is serving our Armed Forces may consume alcohol with a valid Military ID.

Those of just some of the few interesting ideas proposed. I would recommend reading the whole thing.