Democrat leader wants to add gambling tax receipts from "Murder Beach!"

Rep. Todd Rutherford, a minority leader for S.C. House Democrats, said he will  introduce legislation to bring casinos to the Myrtle Beach area.

The S.C. Democrat Party is already home of the “Buy a Lid for the Kids” mantra, created after a democrat education candidate proposed selling and taxing marijuana to fund schools.

Rutherford says he wants create new tax funds from gamblers to fix roads and bridges.

Democrats like the idea. On the June 10, democrat primary ballot, 80 percent of democrat voters supported legalizing gambling.

But since the number of voters in the Democrat Primary was in the neighborhood of one-third of those voting in the GOP Primary, it's difficult to gauge if the vote by democrats is relevant. Do such low participation numbers really tell us anything?

Liberal-Tarian (social liberal) voters are also typically keen on more tax money for the government to spend, from gambling. So Rutherford could see gambling as a way to Triangulate popularity, since democrats have been rendered all but unfit by voters for statewide office in S.C.

Rutherford probably does not care, but crime and other vice usually follow gambling. The Grand Strand is already being called "Murder Beach" after a murderous Bike Week recently, with killings in the streets.

Countless strip clubs, tattoo and piercing parlors, in addition to gambling boats out of Little River, have helped diminish Myrtle Beach's reputation.

Condoning vice may sound like a good idea to feed an already over-spending government, but like any sin-tax, the problems that come with it are costly fiscally, and even more in damage to our society.

Sadly democrats don't seem to care about what their laws do to people.