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“We have a good tax structure, right, and we’re business-friendly, and I intend to keep it that way. I want to be a voice in Washington that will listen to business and say, what can I do to help you stay here? What can I do to grow your footprint? Let me just say this about South Carolina. If you get nothing else out of this interview, we’re the largest growing state in the nation for a reason, because it’s a great place to live, work, and do business. I intend to keep it that way,” he said.
As South Carolina continues to grow, Graham said state leaders have to balance economic growth with investments in roads, water, and sewer systems while protecting the natural resources that attract people to South Carolina in the first place.
“The hardest thing for a politician to do is to do something that doesn’t have immediate impact for today, so I always look at projects that will create capacity down the road and invest in them first. You got to maintain what you got, but you also have to plan to meet growth. And without road, water and sewer, you can’t grow healthy, you can’t grow smart. So that’s a constant struggle for me is how to put money into maintaining what we got, and how do you build new infrastructure? And I think I’ve reached a pretty good balance in my political life of doing both, but there’ll come a day where growth gets to be too much too quick and will destroy our quality of life. I think a lot about that, and I understand where the tipping point is at,” Graham said.
Graham also pointed to his constituent service offices, which are located across the state and act as local branches of his primary office in Washington, D.C.
“If you have a problem with the government, or any other problem, come by my office, and we’ll try to help you if we can. That’s very important to me. I want you to feel like you have a place to come and raise your concerns, and we’ll try to meet your concerns where we can,” he said.
South Carolina’s primary election is on June 9.