x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:57:56 -0500 thread-index: AdF7v4pKtCk1MqZ8R1ODV3+DJ/1t+Q== Thread-Topic: No South Carolina Taxes for Retired Military From: To: Subject: No South Carolina Taxes for Retired Military Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:57:55 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2016 17:57:56.0162 (UTC) FILETIME=[8A69E220:01D17BBF] CUSTOM mr. robert shear 309 MALLET HILL RD COLUMBIA SC 29223 robertshear.narfe87@hotmail.com 8033862027 8033862027 TAX No South Carolina Taxes for Retired Military 98.122.102.226 your proposal to exempt military retirees from sc taxes puzzles me. why exempt mil retirees already living here? they retired here for many reasons but they are already here & there's no need to give them extra $ through a new tax exemption. i can see trying to entice future military retirees to come to sc. a permanent tax cut is too expensive. you could offer one-time payments through a special tax break. you might even offer the payment over several years. military retirees in sc i hang out with are very well-off financially & don't need this overly generous tax break; & they already live in sc so you're not trying to get them to move here. many of us retirees would like to not pay sc taxes. your tax exemption proposal isn't fair to non-military retirees or even just your average working folks. you didn't want to treat farmers with flood damage any differently from other state citizens so why treat military retirees differently from the rest of us?