We have the Governor’s food-tax repeal proposal. Governor Kristi Noem has given her new party leaders Representative Mary Fitzgerald and Senator John Wiik the pleasure…
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The big property-tax break bill is in the hopper. On Tuesday, Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) filed House Bill 1043, her interim tax committee’s proposal…
Repealing South Dakota’s unusual and immoral food tax will put 4% more money back in hungry South Dakotans’ pockets than projected last fall. In a…
Reviewing the lobbyist registry for the 2023 Session, I find 156 individuals signed up so far to hang around the Capitol this winter persuading our…
Governor Kristi Noem is sticking with her campaign flip-flop to finally implement the Democratic plan to exempt food from the state sales tax. In yesterday’s…
Alas, Attorney General Mark Vargo’s incorrect explanation of the proposed ballot initiative to repeal the state sales tax on food has delayed the petition drive…
Now that Tim Goodwin has been voted out of the Legislature after three terms of largely bad ideas, maybe he can focus his energy on…
Last month, Attorney General Mark Vargo issued draft explanations of two initiatives proposing to repeal South Dakota’s sales tax on food. The Attorney General’s drafts…
To no one’s surprise, legislators have not mustered the two-thirds majorities in both chambers to call a Special Session to enact Governor Kristi Noem’s election-season…
Bob Mercer agrees that Governor Kristi Noem’s election-season advocacy of repealing the sales tax on food is a 180-degree turn from her clear repudiation of repealing…