South Carolina has some rather … strange … priorities. We’re in the middle of a crisis in the state budget, and faced with cutting vital services that might help South Carolinians survive this recession. A big part of our problem is that we don’t have enough tax revenue to keep our necessary services up and running.
Business was — you might say — booming this past weekend, as the state’s first sales tax-free weekend attracted throngs to gun shops.
A tax-free holiday for guns? In this budget climate we really shouldn’t be having gimmicky “tax-free holidays” on anything. if you wonder how we in South Carolina got into this mess we’re in, here’s yet another example.
Or is the tax-free holiday on guns our legislature’s response to this?
South Carolina has the highest violent crime rate in the nation - again! (from America's Health Rankings 2008)
I guess it’s cheaper than funding the police and the prison system …
Hat tip to Snead – even if he does cheer for the wrong college football team.