State plan to give roads to counties would hurt taxpayers

South Carolina has a really big problem coming down the road … and it’s, uh, our roads .

As The Post and Courier’s Nick Reynolds reports, the state faces a massive backlog of road maintenance and bridge replacements, not to mention the incessant need for more lane miles with settlers from around the country wagon-training in here.

Which is no surprise to anyone who drives, say, Highway 17, 17A, 41, 61, Rivers Avenue or Dorchester or Folly Road, to name a few.

So, what’s the Legislature’s bright idea to remedy this? Well, some lawmakers want to take some of those roads off the Department of Transportation’s hands and give them to the counties.

Spoiler alert: This doesn’t end well for counties … or taxpayers.

Yes, state lawmakers — whose predecessors, make no mistake, created this pro