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		<title>No, We’re not joking. Senate fails to repeal 1099 Tax. Again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Pallay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what is consistently becoming a tragic, comedy of errors, the Senate failed once again to repeal the 1099 provision of Obamacare.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3087&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S.C. State Budget: $182.188 Billion and Counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Wong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[comptroller general]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina’s FY10-2011 state budget is the largest in state history. At more than $21.149 billion, the state’s budget has increased about 44 percent over the last 10 fiscal years. Spending has been growing rapidly and has also consistently increased 9 out of the last 10 fiscal years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3078&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us be Thankful for Transparency</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/let-us-be-thankful-for-transparency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that we should be thankful today.  So today, let's be thankful for the transparency tools that we do have. More and more resources are being created to hold government accountable on the state and federal level.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3052&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Law Already Hitting Home for HSA Consumers</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/health-care-law-already-hitting-home-for-hsa-consumers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SCPC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even as foes of Obamacare celebrate their recent victories at the polls, more and more of the regulations mandated by the federal health care takeover (otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) are hitting their start date, and the reality is setting in quickly – we are all going to be affected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3070&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Five South Carolina Retirement Funds Are Not Created Equal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Wong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Assembly Retirement System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judges and Solicitors Retirement System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Guard Retirement System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S.C. Retirement System]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Police Officers Retirement System]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have recently published a fact-sheet on 10 different ways to reform the S.C. Retirement Systems. The South Carolina Retirement Systems, with more than $12.052 billion unfunded liability reported by the state’s Budget and Control Board, has become one of the hot issues for the policymakers. Note that the S.C. Retirement Systems consists of five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3043&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Crisis Long in Coming</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/budget-crisis-long-in-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SCPC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite all the rhetoric about budget cuts and employee furloughs, South Carolina’s FY10-2011 budget was the largest in state history. The total state budget was $21.149 billion. This includes: $8.268 billion in Federal Funds; $7.766 billion in Other Funds; and $5.115 billion in General Funds. That’s an increase of $500 million or 2.19 percent over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3036&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Health Care Legislation: We Really Don’t Know What’s In It</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/federal-health-care-legislation-we-really-dont-know-whats-in-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Pallay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limited Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone already knows the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is more than 2,000 pages long. (2,562 pages and 511,520 words when both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act are combined, notes Michael Tanner.) But what isn’t publicized much is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3018&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governor-elect launches website to address budget crisis</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/governor-elect-launches-website-to-address-budget-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Pallay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limited Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government subsidies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palmettovore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In January, Nikki Haley will be sworn in as the new South Carolina governor. Like nearly every other governor across the nation, she is inheriting a budget crisis. One of Haley&#8217;s first actions was to establish a task force with the goal of addressing budget challenges. (Disclaimer: South Carolina Policy Council president Ashley Landess is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3026&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>General Assembly Reaches Bottom of Slippery Slope</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/general-assembly-reaches-bottom-of-slippery-slope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jameson Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been keeping up with our new research on legislative control in South Carolina, you are well aware the General Assembly is attempting to direct the state’s economy by means of numerous boards and regulations, as well as by distributing billions of dollars in economic incentives and tax breaks to special interests.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3016&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BEA Should Think Like Economists, Not Accountants</title>
		<link>http://palmettoinsider.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/bea-should-think-like-economists-not-accountants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Wong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BEA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve made no secret of the fact that we think the state’s Board of Economic Advisors (BEA) could improve upon its analysis of legislation proposed in the General Assembly. As we recommended in our recent report on economic incentives transparency, Three Steps Toward Transparency:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palmettoinsider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8817643&amp;post=3011&amp;subd=palmettoinsider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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