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PRESS RELEASE: Governor Sanford Comments on House’s Incentives Vote

March 5th, 2010 · admin · No Comments

Columbia, S.C. - March 5, 2010 - Gov. Mark Sanford today issued the following statement regarding the South Carolina House’s vote to reject taxpayer incentives for big box retailers. “Given the debate we’ve had over the last several years on whether to offer retail incentives to subsidize large corporate competitors at the expense of our state’s small businesses, we want to commend the state House on the stand that they were willing to take yesterday,” said Gov. Sanford. “In this case, for the first time in South Carolina history more than $9 million would have gone to large retail establishments that would have put any number of small businesses in the same line of business out of work. We think that’s neither in the best interest of taxpayers or small businesses across our state. Given the stand they took on this issue, the following Representatives deserve recognition.”  

 Karl Allen                    Nathan Ballentine        Eric Bedingfield

Grady Brown               Derham Cole               Kris Crawford

Greg Delleney              Jeff Duncan                 Shannon Erickson

Marion Frye                 Laurie Funderburk       Wendell Gilliard

Anton Gunn                 Nikki Haley                 Cathy Harvin

George Hearn              David Hiott                  Lonnie Hosey

Chip Huggins               Ken Kennedy              Herb Kirsh

Patsy Knight                Lanny Littlejohn          Deborah Long

Phillip Lowe                Jay Lucas                     Joe McEachern

Joey Millwood             Steve Moss                  Ralph Norman

Steve Parker                 Anne Parks                  Gene Pinson

Rex Rice                      Tim Scott                     Gary Simrill

Murrell Smith               Garry Smith                 Roland Smith

Leon Stavrinakis          Tommy Stringer           Michael Thompson

Mac Toole                   David Weeks               Bill Whitmire

Tom Young

 “We continue to believe that it is not prudent to use tax dollars to favor one retailer over another, and we’d ask taxpayers to continue making their voices heard, and, in this instance, thanking the legislators above for their vote. We’d also urge legislators to reaffirm this vote for the taxpayer when it is taken up again next week.”

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