NOTE: You may only sign if you are a resident of South Carolina

We, the People of South Carolina, hereby request an amendment to the SC State Constitution pursuant to Article XVI of the SC Constitution [see below]. We the people request that the Senate / House take up this matter in that we the people request the annual revolving taxation of personal property be rescinded and only 1 instance of sales tax at time of purchase, be permitted in the State of South Carolina. To continue taxing people of SC annually [see paragraph below] constitutes a financial hardship on many residents while the state also collects approximately 13 percent on each gallon of fuel sold in this state. We are also in a bad inflation headed for a hyper inflation and this too will impact citizens gravely. 

The General Assembly finds that: "(1) before a motor vehicle may be licensed and registered by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles for the privilege of using the public highways of this State, that department either collects or confirms the collection of any applicable sales, use, and casual excise taxes due on the vehicle; "(2) without the required registration and licensing it is unlawful for a motor vehicle to use the public highways of this State; and "(3) the revenue of the sales, use, and casual excise tax required to be paid before a motor vehicle may be registered and licensed in this State is included within the "sources of revenue" that may be pledged to secure highway bonds pursuant to Section 13(6)(a), Article X of the Constitution of this State."

ARTICLE XVI

AMENDMENT AND REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION § 1. Amendments. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives. However, for the general election in 1990, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the electors. The amendment may delete, revise, and transpose provisions from other articles of the Constitution provided the provisions are germane to the subject matter of the article being revised or being proposed. If it is agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, the amendment or amendments must be entered on the Journals respectively, with the yeas and nays taken on it and must be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election for Representatives. If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting on the question vote in favor of the amendment or amendments and a majority of each branch of the next General Assembly, after the election and before another, ratify the amendment or amendments, by yeas and nays, they become part of the Constitution. The amendment or amendments must be read three times, on three several days, in each House. (1965 (54) 827; 1967 (55) 140; 1968 (55) 3190; 1969 (56) 47; 1972 (57) 3197; 1973 (58) 86; 1974 (58) 3007; 1975 (59) 24; 1976 (59) 2215; 1977 (60) 23; 1979 Act No. 5; 1985 Act No. 6; 1989 Act No. 11.)"SECTION 5.A.