COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) – In the next year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are set to go toward fixing South Carolina roads and bridges, while teachers, state employees, and state lawmakers are all in line for pay raises.
Those are a few of the big-ticket items of the budget deal legislative negotiators reached this week on South Carolina’s $14.7 billion spending plan.
But it was not what was in the deal, but rather how it was struck, that made this compromise atypical…