Your Freedom Caucus co-founder/consultant spent a small fortune blast texting my neighbors falsely accusing me of being in favor of at home abortions - all while he was trading child pornography.
So, please spare me the disingenuous “spare me” routine. The only proven example of an elected endangering a child here was your House BFF.
@SCHouseGOP@SCFreedomCaucus@MLW_PAC Your Caucus consultant spent a fortune smearing Freedom Caucus candidates last cycle with similar attacks so save the fake, self-righteous outrage.
Also, David Martin and Neal Collins are “lifelong conservatives?”
Do you really think voters are stupid?
@scpolicycouncil No I don’t think it’s “corporate welfare” for the government to lower the tax burden it places on business. But, do y’all think tax reduction is the same as corporate welfare?
@scpolicycouncil A tax incentive is a reduction in tax rate. It is not a governmental expenditure. You can not lose revenue on something that never existed nor does it cost the government anything to offer said deal. Tax incentives create new streams of revenue by attracting new investments.
That would be news to Texas (Chapter 380) and Florida (TJIF), their functional equivalents to FILOT, both operating in low-tax environments without abandoning competitive incentive tools.
More to the point: it’s not “lost revenue” if it never exists. No project, no investment, no tax base.
And if the principle is “no picking winners and losers,” it has to apply across the board. South Carolina uses incentives across manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, retail, and logistics. Singling out data centers isn’t consistency, it’s selectivity.
So which is the position? Eliminate incentives entirely and compete on baseline tax structure? That’s coherent. Allow the state to provide targeted incentives to compete for mobile capital? Also coherent.
But isolating one industry’s incentives as “handouts” is where your argument breaks down. Not to mention your push for more regulation.
If the standard changes depending on the industry, it’s not a principle, it’s a preference.