The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature will hear three juicy Issue Memos at next week. The memos aren’t up yet, but the agenda…
Tag: taxes
Good thing I footnote-reminded him yesterday! Having called the Legislature into Special Session come September 12 to raise our taxes, Governor Dennis Daugaard remembered that he’d…
In his constant pursuit of distraction, Donald Trump proposes matching his election-buying welfare for farmers with more election-buying welfare for the rich: The Trump administration…
I noted last week that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Billie Sutton’s stated opposition to a state income tax cedes too much ground to the Republican fiscal…
While Trump gets ready to hand out welfare checks to buy the farm vote, perhaps he should throw some money toward the Americans whom he’s…
Speaking of taxes, my morning Governing newsletter says that supermajority requirements like South Dakota’s don’t really affect tax rates: A total of 14 states impose some kind of…
The Public Utilities Commission is following up on its promise to see that corporate tax cuts turn into utility bill breaks for South Dakotans. Bob…
Both the Democratic and Republican parties of South Dakota have declared themselves opposed to Initiated Measure 25, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) proposed tobacco…
Among the interesting passages in the majority opinion in South Dakota v. Wayfair, last week’s monumental U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the 1992 Quill decision and allowing states…
Don’t expect the Trump tax cuts to deliver as much job and wage growth as Republicans promised: The new corporate tax cuts are unlikely to…