“However, Don Weaver of the S.C. Association of Taxpayers defended Act 388.

The law “spread the burden of operating school millage, not just to homeowners, but to all those who use and benefit from our school system: renters, tourists and those who travel to do business in our state,” Weaver said.

He added his organization and others “would view any wholesale abandonment of Act 388 to be a broken promise, a broken covenant made to the taxpayers of our state.“

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