By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The incentives package that brought Volvo to South Carolina could cost taxpayers an additional $87 million if the state pays for promised infrastructure improvements entirely the way Gov. Nikki Haley wants.
That’s on top of the $123 million the state would borrow.
House leaders propose putting $70 million of a newly available windfall toward the Volvo commitment, leaving $53 million to borrow.
Haley said Monday she expects a legislative panel to approve borrowing all $123 million as the chambers’ leaders promised in April.
She says Volvo wants it funded that way.
That would require creative financing and interest-only payments. Documents for the panel’s meeting Wednesday show the debt service over 17 years would total nearly $87 million.
Haley says she’d support authorizing borrowing the full amount, then paying it down.
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