February 25, 2015; For immediate release; Contact: Brian Symmes, 803-673-9437
Gov. Nikki Haley: “They just ran up the credit card debt and reversed everything we’ve been doing”
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Governor Nikki Haley today discussed a budget proposal that would burden South Carolina taxpayers with a half a billion dollars of new debt. She asked budget writers to instead consider a low-tax and low-debt budget that respects the taxpayers of the state.
“Look at what we’ve done with our credit card debt every single year. It was very important to drop the credit card debt for the hard working taxpayers of South Carolina so that they realized that not only were we trying to bring jobs and put money in their pocket, we were trying to reduce our credit card debt. So if you look, you see we’ve made some really great progress. I was proud of what we had done, and I was proud of what we were going to do going forward,” said Gov. Nikki Haley. “In our budget this year we wanted to reduce our credit card debt $40 million more. That’s not what happened in Ways & Means when it came out. Not only did they not reduce the $40 million that we wanted, they raised it $40 million more. They just ran up the credit card debt and reversed everything we’ve been doing.”
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