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Nancy Mace: “We have the highest state income tax rate in the Southeast…”

Featuring: Nancy Mace, Republican | U.S. House, South Carolina, District 1

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Published August 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 20:15

One of the things I wanted to show you One of the things I wanted to show you is on this map you'll see in South Carolina, We have the highest state income tax rate in the Southeast. We have a 6% sales tax. We have high property taxes. We have a hovering around 6% state income tax. North Carolina is lower. Georgia is lower. Tennessee just got down to zero. Florida is zero. Texas is zero. (20:15–20:24)

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Asserts that South Carolina has the highest state income tax rate in the Southeast, along with a 6% sales tax and high property taxes.

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“In 2019, earmarks were $30 million a year. And then just two years, that year ago, 2023, 2024, fiscal year mark, they were 700 million.”
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“Clemson University had a form on their website with 15 genders, and male and female were not two of the genders.”
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“The state spent $9 billion about a decade ago to build B.C. summer or nuclear power plant and you didn't get a damn thing back from it.”
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“Two weeks ago the state shut down five facilities so that we wouldn't have a rolling blackout here in South Carolina.”
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“There were Republicans and Democrats in Congress who voted to give FEMA $1.45 billion to spend on housing illegal aliens.”
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“I got [Sheriff Kristin Graziano] unelected in a blue county that Kamala Harris won by 11 points.”
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“The Attorney General of South Carolina is refusing to investigate the death and the killing of Scott Spivey.”
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“In Charleston county, there are over 350 murder cases and attempted murder over the last seven to eight years.”
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“We have rogue sheriffs here in South Carolina who are sanctuary sheriffs, who are ignoring state law and federal law.”
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“Over the last four years, we had a sanctuary sheriff, Kristen Graziano, who refused to work with ICE.”
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“She [Kristen Graziano] let out rapists, she let out murderers, and she let out pedophiles who are here illegally in our state.”
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“We got a Republican conservative sheriff in Charleston County, South Carolina, by one point.”
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“We're going to force a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach the director of the Secret Service after Donald J. Trump was…”
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“12 hours later, Kim Cheadle resigned as the director of the Secret Service.”
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“When we elected Mike Johnson as Speaker in January, it was really important for Donald Trump to get the speaker that he wanted.”
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“We have a hovering around 6% state income tax. North Carolina is lower. Georgia is lower. Tennessee just got down to zero. Florida is zero…”
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“Pre Covid, the General Fund in 2019 was around 9 billion. Post Covid, in the 2024, 2025 year, it has skyrocketed to 13.2 billion.”
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“In Sumter county today, there are over 60 murder cases.”
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“The state of South Carolina, we're about 25th in the country on what we spend per student. Okay, we're 25th right in the middle. We're like…”
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“If the kid cannot read by third and fourth by third grade, then we're going to assign them a reading mentor and they're going to be required…”
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“Our office assisted in getting the largest infrastructure grant in South Carolina history at $195 million earlier this year.”
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“We didn't spend the last four years getting shovel ready during the Biden administration.”
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“I want to audit SCDOT.”
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“I will not fund a single college or university that decides that men can be women, men can be pregnant, men can be in our girls locker rooms…”
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“I did 26 amendments on [the National Defense Authorization Act] committee.”
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“FEMA was caught. Housing. They had a housing program for illegal aliens.”
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“We're not banning anything. We're not banning anything.”
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“I'm all for open carry. Constitutional carry.”
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“That still hasn't happened [regional training facilities].”
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“We know that there are certain streets in our state that are taken over by the Sinaloa cartel, by the Ms. 13 gangs.”
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“In my hometown of Goose Creek, like four years ago, like one of the largest human trafficking busts.”
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