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SC Agencies Have Home Field Advantage
The legislature that votes on the budget is in Columbia four months a year. The agencies that keep the money are there all year, with more time and more…
 • Mike Burkhold
Show Me the Money Episode 4
We have a lack of accountability in Columbia
 • Mike Burkhold
4:25
280 Reasons Agencies Keep $3.12 Billion of Your Tax Dollars, and Not One Explanation
Not one of the 280 sentences says why the money stays, and nothing in the budget lets you tell a careful reserve from a balance nobody has looked at in…
 • Mike Burkhold
Show me the Money Episode 3
Special Provisos are sentences in the budget move hundreds of millions of dollars - but they also lead to a lack of transparency on what our tax dollars…
 • Mike Burkhold
5:08
Keeping $3.12 Billion in Change
South Carolina's state government did not spend $3.17 billion in available funds last year. Under the state's own rule, all of it was supposed to go…
 • Mike Burkhold
Show Me the Money Episode 2
Who pays the price in SC when agencies don’t get the job done.
 • Mike Burkhold
6:50
Follow the Bus Money
The budget says $185.1 million for school buses. Eight provisos let more money in, and no page shows the total.
 • Mike Burkhold
Show me the Money - Episode 1
I just launched a new show to explain to SC taxpayers where your tax dollars are going. The whole point of this show: Open the books. Follow the money…
 • Mike Burkhold
8:06
The Growth
A billion dollars went back to taxpayers in 2023. It took a vote. Nothing sends money back on its own
 • Mike Burkhold

August 2026

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