South Carolina taxpayer-funded lobbying
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This is controversial because the agenda being lobbied for are not decided by taxpayers, whose money is used for the practice. This means the outcomes of lobbying are sometimes opposed to the constituents' benefit.
[edit] 2008 expenditures on lobbying
According to the South Carolina Policy Council, South Carolina government agencies spent $1.46 million of taxpayer funds on lobbyists in 2008 with a projected yearly cost to taxpayers for all of 2008 at more than $2.9 million, a 31 percent increase from 2005.[1].
[edit] Taxpayer-funded lobbying associations
The following is a list of South Carolina taxpayer-funded lobbying associations by type:
[edit] City and municipal
[edit] County
[edit] School
[edit] References
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