South Carolina House, District 99 Choose 1
SC State House of Representatives -- The legislative power of the State of South Carolina is vested in a general assembly comprised of two chambers - the senate and the house of representatives. The SC House of Representatives consists of 124 part-time members elected every two years to represent the state's 124 single member districts. As part of the general assembly, the House of Representatives creates and amends laws that govern our state and must create and pass the state budget annually. The general assembly draws district lines for the SC House, SC Senate and US House every 10 years after each census. Representatives must be citizens of the United States and the state of South Carolina, at least twenty-one years old at the time of their election, and residents of the district in which they are elected. All representatives are up for election during the same even year election cycle.NOTE:This candidate’s responses were not available before our publication deadline. Voters are welcome to encourage the candidate to share their views. Updated responses will be posted as they are received.
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What issues would you prioritize for your own work in the statehouse and related to that, what committees are you most interested in and qualified to serve on?
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What is your opinion on how the state should approach income and property tax policy while ensuring sustainable funding for statewide and local services for residents and families? How do you think that balance should be achieved?
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When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms or social policy, how do you ensure your decisions reflect the diverse views and needs of the people you represent?
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Please share your position on South Carolina’s school voucher program. What steps would you take to ensure that public tax dollars directed to private education providers are used transparently and produce measurable benefits for students?
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South Carolina’s growing energy demand has led to proposals for new natural gas plants and increased load from data centers. How would you work to keep energy rates affordable for residents while ensuring that new energy development is environmentally responsible?
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What issues would you prioritize for your own work in the statehouse and related to that, what committees are you most interested in and qualified to serve on?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your opinion on how the state should approach income and property tax policy while ensuring sustainable funding for statewide and local services for residents and families? How do you think that balance should be achieved?
Candidate has not yet responded.
When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms or social policy, how do you ensure your decisions reflect the diverse views and needs of the people you represent?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Please share your position on South Carolina’s school voucher program. What steps would you take to ensure that public tax dollars directed to private education providers are used transparently and produce measurable benefits for students?
Candidate has not yet responded.
South Carolina’s growing energy demand has led to proposals for new natural gas plants and increased load from data centers. How would you work to keep energy rates affordable for residents while ensuring that new energy development is environmentally responsible?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Biographical Information
What issues would you prioritize for your own work in the statehouse and related to that, what committees are you most interested in and qualified to serve on?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your opinion on how the state should approach income and property tax policy while ensuring sustainable funding for statewide and local services for residents and families? How do you think that balance should be achieved?
Candidate has not yet responded.
When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms or social policy, how do you ensure your decisions reflect the diverse views and needs of the people you represent?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Please share your position on South Carolina’s school voucher program. What steps would you take to ensure that public tax dollars directed to private education providers are used transparently and produce measurable benefits for students?
Candidate has not yet responded.
South Carolina’s growing energy demand has led to proposals for new natural gas plants and increased load from data centers. How would you work to keep energy rates affordable for residents while ensuring that new energy development is environmentally responsible?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Biographical Information
What issues would you prioritize for your own work in the statehouse and related to that, what committees are you most interested in and qualified to serve on?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your opinion on how the state should approach income and property tax policy while ensuring sustainable funding for statewide and local services for residents and families? How do you think that balance should be achieved?
Candidate has not yet responded.
When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms or social policy, how do you ensure your decisions reflect the diverse views and needs of the people you represent?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Please share your position on South Carolina’s school voucher program. What steps would you take to ensure that public tax dollars directed to private education providers are used transparently and produce measurable benefits for students?
Candidate has not yet responded.
South Carolina’s growing energy demand has led to proposals for new natural gas plants and increased load from data centers. How would you work to keep energy rates affordable for residents while ensuring that new energy development is environmentally responsible?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Biographical Information
What issues would you prioritize for your own work in the statehouse and related to that, what committees are you most interested in and qualified to serve on?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your opinion on how the state should approach income and property tax policy while ensuring sustainable funding for statewide and local services for residents and families? How do you think that balance should be achieved?
Candidate has not yet responded.
When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms or social policy, how do you ensure your decisions reflect the diverse views and needs of the people you represent?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Please share your position on South Carolina’s school voucher program. What steps would you take to ensure that public tax dollars directed to private education providers are used transparently and produce measurable benefits for students?
Candidate has not yet responded.
South Carolina’s growing energy demand has led to proposals for new natural gas plants and increased load from data centers. How would you work to keep energy rates affordable for residents while ensuring that new energy development is environmentally responsible?
Candidate has not yet responded.
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http://thepricecampaign.com
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Education
College Of Charleston | Computer Science
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info@thepricecampaign.com
What issues would you prioritize for your own work in the statehouse and related to that, what committees are you most interested in and qualified to serve on?
The two committees I would be most interested, and qualified on, would be the "Government Efficiency and Legislative Oversight Committee", as well as the "Regulations, Admin. Procedures, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Committee".
My current position as a Senior Software Engineer, and Technical lead, has given me plenty of experience to break down and review processes throughout the statehouse that would be deemed either beneficial, or useless. I have a large amount of experience planning and managing strategies for legacy systems, and systems or processes that need modernization. Breaking down where a system is inefficient, and engineering a new solution is my specialty.
Additionally, as a Sr. Software Engineer, I have the required experience and background needed to assist in properly regulating AI and Cybersecurity, as this is what I work with on a daily basis. Where colleagues may review this from a legal or judicial perspective, I would be providing understanding from the software perspective that actually makes sense for legislative action.
What is your opinion on how the state should approach income and property tax policy while ensuring sustainable funding for statewide and local services for residents and families? How do you think that balance should be achieved?
Income tax is always an issue, and there is no single solution. Even considering a percent flat tax rate doesn't provide a viable solution.
Breaking this down, and starting with property tax, one of the biggest things I see that we should be focusing on is a tax rate that is relative to two things: the impact of the property on infrastructure, and what the value of a property is. Residential property owners shouldn't be expecting to support the intense infrastructure usage of a shipping company at the port. Similarly, A small business doesn't flood the highway with trucks for shipping, and shouldn't pay 3x the tax rate that large businesses do.
Alternatively, you also have large medical institutions that have a massive impact on local infrastructure as well, while also providing a huge boon to locals with medical services and professionals. If we want to encourage doctors and medical professionals to continue to grow in SC, then we need to show that we recognize that benefit, should those institutions assist in providing it, and adjust tax rate of both the property of the medical institutions and income of medical professionals accordingly.
This same concept should be applied throughout SC and varying professions, and would balance out economically for locals, while showing that these companies, businesses, and high earning individuals care for the state that they reside in by contributing to through a tax system that benefits businesses and locals alike, simply at a much larger scale.
When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms or social policy, how do you ensure your decisions reflect the diverse views and needs of the people you represent?
Everyone will always have their own opinion on how their own needs are met, the important part to know is that the government should not interfere with these day to day needs.
When considering legislation that affects personal freedoms, we need to ask if we are being restrictive, or if we are being supportive: "How does this legislation help the locals, and the people I represent?" If I cannot find an answer that satisfies that question, without doing harm to others, then it is not something I would consider supporting.
As a legislator, I would be pushing for polices that protects individuals, regardless of ethnicity, religion, or creed. Diverse views and people are the spice of life that brings communities together, and I think that fully needs to be embraced.
Please share your position on South Carolina’s school voucher program. What steps would you take to ensure that public tax dollars directed to private education providers are used transparently and produce measurable benefits for students?
Vouchers are important in that it allows for students to get an education that they would otherwise not be provided. While this is needed, current school programs tend to abuse this system with lack of oversight.
Additionally, private educators are generally for-profit. The state itself has the availability to provide education at a reasonable cost, and we should NOT be using our tax dollars to fund some schools, and not others. Making SC a better state requires well educated individuals that can enter the workforce and provide back to the community.
In this regard, my goal would be to ensure that voucher programs are entirely unnecessary by providing an education system in SC that solves the problem of equality in education before it becomes an issue that requires vouchers in the first place.
We shouldn't need a voucher program to address inequality in education. I would strive to make sure that the schools are funded, and education across the state has the available resources to make sure our children grow up educated and prepared for the modern world.
South Carolina’s growing energy demand has led to proposals for new natural gas plants and increased load from data centers. How would you work to keep energy rates affordable for residents while ensuring that new energy development is environmentally responsible?
Being brutally honest, and from a business perspective, natural gas is costly and limited resource. If we are to move to making energy rates affordable, we need a renewable source that can compete on that level.
Businesses that use data centers consume large amounts of energy and water, two resources that can't be afforded in today's hot climate. SC needs to support both regulation so that energy needs of one business doesn't outweigh the needs of locals, but also create programs that offer alternatives to those business so that it doesn't become a struggle to maintain.
As it stands, solar programs have been dropped by the current administration. Re-enabling solar programs for homeowners could assist in reducing energy costs, while also providing excess energy back to SC for usage where solar programs can't be implemented. Additionally, enabling alternative fuel sources and programs to engage businesses in these renewable energy benefits could have the same effect as well, and benefit both the company and South Carolina.