Posts Tagged ‘SC’
National Tax Day Tea Party Video from Columbia, SC
The Columbia, South Carolina Tax Day Tea Party at the State House drew nearly 3000 people, six times the original estimates. Here is a cross section of Videos from Various perspectives of the event. Speakers included Event coordinator Britton Clark a Local Realtor, Bill Connor candidate for Lt. Governor, Senator Jim DeMint, Governor Mark Sanford, Sheri Few President & CEO and co-founder of South Carolina Parents Involved in Education (SC PIE) , and Ken Hoagland National Communications Director of FairTax.org. Politisite live streamed the event for Breitbart TV The B-Cast with Scott Baker and Liz Stephans, Politisite, Iron Mill News, and several other sites that embeded the video stream. Michelle Malkin and Hot Air Featured Photos from the event as well. The [...]
Video: SC Senator DeMint opposes GIVE Act
Jim DeMint called the GIVE Act “a huge, well-intentioned mistake” on the floor of the Senate yesterday. In a speech lasting almost 15 minutes, the conservative firebrand spoke judiciously about the motives of the bill’s backers, but points out that charity and volunteerism belong in the heart, and not as a federal program subsidized by massive infusions of taxpayer money. After all, the revenue GIVE uses won’t exactly be voluntarily given: I’ve included the full text of DeMint’s speech below, for those who’d rather read it than watch the video. I think the best part comes near the end, when DeMint offers this observation: These are not Government decisions. We need to focus on what we were set up to do and do it much better than we are doing, instead of every week [...]