{"id":88,"date":"2025-04-11T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpolicy.org\/?p=88"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:50:20","slug":"pete-sepp-meeting-south-carolinas-energy-and-tax-policy-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondpolicy.org\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Pete Sepp &#8211; Meeting South Carolina\u2019s Energy and Tax Policy Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"88\" class=\"elementor elementor-88\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8918397 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8918397\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-74a746f\" data-id=\"74a746f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a309fb7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a309fb7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6f16fbf\" data-id=\"6f16fbf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8852da8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"8852da8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6BKHy8pbjIeJteAUUzslVe?utm_source=generator&theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d11c6e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d11c6e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Welcome to a new season and another episode of the Beyond Policy podcast with your host, Dr. Oran Smith of Palmetto Promise Institute. In this episode, Oran is joined by Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union and the NTU Foundation, to discuss two pressing issues in South Carolina: energy freedom and tax reform.<\/p><p>Sepp emphasizes the critical role of energy in the Palmetto State economy, the challenges posed by the coming eight-fold increase in electricity demand here, and the need for a balanced and comprehensive approach to energy sourcing. Too often, \u201cutilities are building stuff and making their ratepayers pay for it.&#8221;<\/p><p>The conversation then shifts to tax reform, where Smith and Sepp explore the new proposal by the Republican leadership of the South Carolina General Assembly (2025) to lower individual income tax rates and transition to a simpler, more common method of calculating income for South Carolina tax purposes (federal Adjusted Gross Income or \u201cAGI\u201d). 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