After the Senate and House approved their proposed budgets, the S.C. Club for Growth released a “Lard List” of legislative pork that included museums in Lake City and Florence, as well as a pottery degree at Piedmont Technical College. Six festivals across the state that received money through the competitive grants program last year also were on the “Lard List.”

Sanford has been a critic of the budget as well, installing a “clock” outside his office to tabulate new Senate spending at $33 per second.

The Herald

Governor Sanford has been a long time critic of the State Legislature’s piggish spending habits throughout his first term as South Carolina governor, and that isn’t changing in his second term. It is important to note that his own party controls the State Legislature.  He has also continued to harp on the Legislature to cut the income tax with the excess money the state has taken in to stimulate more economic growth throughout this growing state. If only this guy would have ran for President.

Last year, money added into the state’s budget, after the state Board of Economic Advisers increased its estimate of state income in May, meant few projects were cut from the House or Senate budgets. Wednesday, the board added $240 million more for House and Senate negotiators.

Sanford has argued the state’s new income money could be used to cut income taxes, which would spur investment across the state.

Cooper said the House would push for its $81 million income tax cut, as well as the Senate’s $90 million reduction of the state grocery sales tax to 1 percent from 3 percent.