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Income tax hikes GOP voters will like

By Frank Knapp / Taxation / September 27, 2011

I told you yesterday about the Winthrop University poll which found that a plurality of Republican and Republican-leaning voters in South Carolina believe that an increase in taxes will be necessary to deal with the budget deficit. So what kind of tax increases would the GOP voters accept? In my radio interview with the study’s …

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Raising revenue OK with SC Republicans

By Frank Knapp / Politics / September 26, 2011

Thank goodness South Carolina Representative James Clyburn is on the Super Committee otherwise the results of a recent poll might not get to his fellow Committee members. A just released Winthrop University poll has found that 73.2% of South Carolina Republican or Republican-leaning voters receiving Social Security or Medicare do not want those benefits cut to …

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