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My Infrastructure and Gas Tax Articles, Lest Ye Have Forgotten

For the sake of transparency, short memories, and people who think they know what I think or believe that I’m not conservative, the following are the titles to various articles that I’ve posted over the last four years about roads, bridges, the gas tax (or as it should be called, the motor fuel user fee), and other stuff that I enjoyed writing. To read these articles, please look to the right for a list, or use the search function or just  keeping scrolling through the website.

2017 – The Year of Living Dangerously in the General Assembly

A Short Reflection on the Electoral College Effect

Argus,  Ric Flair and the Looming State Pension Debt

Lee Bright and the Defense of Western Values

The Roads Bill – Reform in Progress

The Roads Bill – How We Will Pay For It

Bumping Old Hickory

The Roads Bill Amendment

The SCDOT Chicken Run

$415 Million of Surplus Revenue Applied to Road Repair

Our “Anybody but Donald Trump” Electoral College Fail Safe

Grading the Senate’s Friday Folder

A Short Reflection Upon Myths and Bad Tax Policy

Trumping the Light Fantastic in Greenville

The Planned Parenthood Roundabout

A Day in the Life – 14 January 2016

Star Wars as History Lesson

SC State Pension Plan Mechanics – A Study of the Short Sighted

SCDOT Yields to Roundabout Pressure

Planned Parenthood Investigation – All Apologies?

Office of Refugee Resettlement – Welcome to Obamaworld

Opposing the Blue Ridge Roundabout – My Letter to SCDOT

Marriage and the Modern General Assembly

Planned Parenthood – Abortion’s New Back Alley

Public Shaming, Borrowed Moral Capital and Kicking the CBF to the Curb

The Confederate Flag Vote – My Response to a Constituent

Toleration, Same Sex Marriage and Protecting Religious Freedom

Learning Curves, Senate Time and Doughnuts

DHEC Oversight of Abortion Clinics

“Sooey! Sooey!” – Our Preferred State Bond Approval Method

The Road Funding Bill Vote – By the Numbers

House Road Plan Debate – Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Speaking of State Credit Ratings & Income Tax Cuts

The Bond Defeat – Turning Bad Government into Good

The Bond Issue – More Barry than James

Killing Tillman – Part Three: Our State Budget

Killing Tillman – Part Two: Picking Cotton

Killing Tillman – Part One: The College Years

SCDOT Financial Fun Facts as of June 30, 2014

Filing the Governor’s Road Plan

Paving Roads With Good Intentions

Localizing Road Repair

The SC House Marshmallow Test

Bringing Down the House Feudal System

Saving Taxpayers $1.2 Billion

Fun Home at the Fun House

Tax Reform and Gas Tax Articles

And the list goes on . . .