Staff reports | In a $14 billion budget year where surpluses rule, old-time conservative spending seems to have gone out of the window as S.C. House budget committee members passed a plan Thursday to to give raises to teachers, state employees and law enforcement officers, build new schools, construct a state health lab, and buy more body cameras and bulletproof vests for police officers.
The proposed budget, which House lawmakers will consider in March, also includes an income tax cut that will remove $8 billion from state coffers over the next 10 years.
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