Gov. Nikki Haley is signaling that she may veto a House roads package that could include a much smaller tax cut than her own plan proposes.
House leaders on Thursday scheduled twin hearings next week on a House infrastructure committee road plan and an income tax relief plan that could be paired into one plan for the House floor, if they pass their subcommittees and the full budget committee.
But the governor’s plan, which contains a much more robust income tax cut as well as a gas tax hike, is not scheduled for a hearing.
“It’s a shame that the only roads bill the Republican House budget committee is giving a hearing to is a massive tax hike that will take South Carolina in the wrong direction and that the governor has clearly stated she will veto,” Chaney Adams, a Haley spokeswoman, told The Greenville News.
House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White on Thursday filed a bill that would offer a much smaller income tax cut than the one proposed by Haley, which is key to her road-funding plan.
White has scheduled a hearing on his bill next week but has not scheduled a hearing for Haley’s plan, which is contained in a bill by Rep. Tommy Stringer of Greenville and co-signed by 44 Republicans.
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