Apr 20 2008
Q & A With Kyle Boyd
Kyle Boyd is a Republican challenging incumbent State Representative Carl Gullick in the June Republican Primary for State House District 48. I had an opportunity to ask him a few questions. His answers were short, but to the point, which is all you can ask for. I don’t know if he has a campaign Web site up as of yet or I would link to it.
Q. Governor Sanford has recently requested an increase in the cigarette tax in order to lower the state income tax across the board for all taxpayers. Others in the General Assembly are advocating increasing the cigarette tax to instead expand state funded health care to poorer residents. Where do you fall on this issue?
A. I generally support use taxes over confiscatory taxation and would only support that kind of tax increase if we lower other taxes or spending. I would support Governor Sanford on this issue.
Q. The Municipal Association of South Carolina has been lobbying the legislature to loosen the state’s annexation laws so that municipalities can more easily expand their borders to encompass unincorporated property. Do you support or oppose MASC’s position?
A. Generally I don’t support revenue grabs.
Q. Do you support or oppose allowing legislative “earmarks” in the State Legislature’s annual budget?
A. Oppose
Q. Do you support or oppose school choice?
A. I support tax credits as a means of choice.
For Gov. Sanford and all you other smoke nazi’s in the S.C. legislature who feel that increasing state taxes on cigarettes will fill an empty money well, I have an answer for you. Lower the taxes for corporations and small businesses. Gather a group of young bright folks, like my brother Kyle Boyd, to speak for and represent the people of S.C.to world wide corporations and small businesses across the U.S. and attract them to your fine state.
England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey are flush with Euros which are valued higher than the dollar right now making investment in S.C. a current bargain. The bargain won’t last long because the dollar will recover. The need for speed on this mission should be paramount. Sending a good will delegation to attract business to the state at this time trumps anything a tax on cigarettes would accomplish. Employment for the people of South Carolina should be the goal, not a tax on people ultimately counted upon to continue smoking cigarettes, a dying industry at best.
Kyle Boyd’s position against aggressive municipal annexation is the stand the people of S.C. should take, as well as Kyle Boyd’s municipality, because it is nothing but a money grab for taxes on buisnesses that don’t exist in those areas, just landowners and homeowners who haven’t been well represented by the municipalities they border or representatives like Gullick who have ignored them until the money well started to run dry. Kyle Boyd should resist this type of shell game and bring new buisiness to his municipalty. He should instead offer industry and small buisnesses a home in already vacant warehouse and annexed districts. I believe he can and will do this.
School choice is a no brainer for all American citizens. Our children deserve the best education in the world and if they aren’t getting that education in the public school the state has assigned them to, we have the right to give our children the school and teachers who will. Period. We have the right to send our children to a school whose teachers educate, not babysit. As citizens of the United States of America, parents and old folks, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, all say our kids deserve the best education my country is capable of. Give me my money back and let me spend it on my child if the school my child is attending is not fulfilling his or her dream of an education. AN EDUCATION! I wish I had one.
I am,
K.D.Boyd.