Gov. Nikki Haley brought reinforcements to a news conference Wednesday to help push her proposal to raise money for fixing the state’s aging roads and bridges through a gas-tax increase coupled with a cut in the income tax.
But House Democrats, who held a counter conference immediately after, noted that the support was coming from Haley’s hand-picked Cabinet members: Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt, Department of Transportation chief Janet Oakley and Department of Parks, Revenue and Tourism Director Duane Parrish. “We are now the state with the highest income tax in the Southeast,” Haley said. “We are now a state that is not going to look as competitive.”
Haley’s plan has been met with mixed reactions. It would raise the tax on gasoline by 10 cents over three years while reducing the state income tax from 7 percent to 5 percent over 10 years. It also calls for restructuring the Department of Transportation.
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