The ordinary penny worth millions of dollars

You have heard me before on the matter of the so-called "penny sales tax" fad that's sweepng South Carolina and probably many other states. It's in the news afresh in a foul-smelling way:

http://thenerve.org/news/2015/12/23/penny-tax/?utm_source=The+Nerve&utm_campaign=29bf487616-Today_on_The_Nerve&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b306b3032c-29bf487616-212311029&mc_cid=29bf487616&mc_eid=26d16cea64

Inside the Penny Tax: What Went Wrong?

Like any county, parish or borough, Richland County has a professional, functioning procurement department with rules, procedures and protocol governed by law that ensures fairness and transparency.

Unlike any county, parish or borough, when the penny sales tax passed in 2012 thanks to the most controversial, mismanaged elections in living memory, County Council wrote an ordinance – No. 039-12HR – giving it project award authority on its own and allowing it to create a separate, independent Professional Development Team (PDT) to run the billion-dollar project.

Now the focus of a SLED investigation and allegations of corruption, misappropriation and fraud thanks to a Department of Revenue audit, the PDT team has operated since its inception out of sight and out of mind, playing by its own rules and overseeing its own procurement outside existing channels and without requiring the approval of the county legal department, sources inside the county tell The Nerve.

AN ENTITY UNTO ITSELF

Not only does the PDT operate outside the rules of the county government oversight, it operates literally outside the county building, in a separate location rented specifically for them, a snazzy brick building at 201 Arbor Lake Drive in the Fontaine Business Center well away from downtown.
According to the PDT contract, $560,878 was authorized as a “mobilization fee” to “locate, lease and set up office space” with a minimum of 20 individual offices to include...........

So the thing is implicated in some of the dirtiest politics out there -- in a county whose seat doubles as the state capitol city! Click the link to see one of the biggest, most mendacious images of the Lincoln head copper ever....... The most bizarre thing to me is that The Nerve, a project of the very hip South Carolina Policy Council, is going along with this "penny" nonsense.

It is NOT a penny tax. It is a SUBSTANTIAL HIKE if whatever tax already exists, by percentage! A true penny tax would only add one literal cent to the price of each unit of goods or services. If, say, the existing sales tax is 6%, adding a FURTHER PERCENT to the gouge is slightly over a SIXTEEN PERCENT surge in sales taxes -- 6 going into 100 about 16 times, in other words -- even if passed off as an accommodations tax.

God bless the Policy Council for the fantastic work it does exposing many levels of corruption. in the belly of the Palmetto beast. Anybody want to sav me the trouble of pointing out this anomaly to them?

Now this from SC's best "foreign" friend, Aaron Bolinger in rural Pennsylvania:

http://wearechange.org/tennessee-and-south-carolina-bills-would-open-the-door-to-armed-police-drones/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wrc+%28We+Are+Change%29

Tennessee and South Carolina Bills Would Open the Door to Armed Police Drones

Seems like a good time to write your state senator and representative. Don't know who they are? So easy to find out and a-c-t:

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/legislatorssearch.php

Find Your Legislators 

What a HISTORY our politicians have of terrorizing and terrifying the innocent!

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/remember-your-country-admits-to-false-flag-terror.html

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror

Wish the news were better! What have y'all done this year to make it so? Action reports always welcome. Have a happy, healthy 2016, all.

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