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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Key points in governor's State of the State speech

http://www.thestate.com/312/story/286893.html
Posted on Wed, Jan. 16, 2008

The Associated Press
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford plans to promote an agenda for the year that includes:
- Strengthening the state's drunken driving laws
- Helping parents send children to private schools
- Boosting land conservation with a one-time, $50 million increase
- Curtailing illegal immigration
- Increasing state cigarette tax and using the revenue to cut income taxes
- Giving high school students who graduate early up to $2,000 each
- Restructuring government, chiefly eliminating the Budget and Control Board
- Capping government spending
- Severely limiting the use of one-time money for programs that need funding every year

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