State Sen. Ray Cleary says his legislative plan to fix South Carolina’s roads is dead.
Cleary offered a compromise to Gov. Nikki Haley’s three-part proposal to increase the state gas tax by 10 cents a gallon, cut the state income tax by 2 percent over 10 years and restructure the Department of Transportation. She promised to veto any alternative road plan.
Cleary proposed raising a number of fees along with a 10-cents-a-gallon gasoline increase to address the shortfall in road funding, eliminating the state’s 3 percent tax on small businesses and returning more than 20,000 miles of roads to counties to maintain with a guaranteed funding stream.
He told members of the Waccamaw Neck Republican Club Monday he met with Haley last week for the first time to talk about roads and he got a text message that she wants to meet again. “The governor’s plan,” Cleary said, “as a Republican I should support it.”
He doesn’t.
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