South Dakota has banned ballot dropboxes, much to the anti-democratic glee of Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her office wingnuts, but Pennington County says dropboxes are safe for your tax dollars:
Pennington County’s property tax dropbox will be open for payments 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the County Administration Building at 130 Kansas City Street in Rapid City, County Treasurer Janet Sayler said.
The dropbox is located inside the main entrance next to the brightly colored motor vehicle self-service terminal on the Kansas City Street side of the building. It is clearly marked “Property Taxes.” Property tax payments are the only payments accepted in the dropbox.
Payments being dropped off should include the Tax ID Number being paid for and must have a current phone number on the payment. Receipts will be mailed to those requesting a return receipt.
The dropbox will be accessible only through midnight on April 30. All payments made after that time will be subject to interest [Darsha Dodge, “Dropbox Open for Pennington County Property Tax Payments,” Rapid City Journal, 2023.04.04].
Making it easy to give government your money but harder to submit your vote—that’s South Dakota Freedom™ at work!
There is a fancy way to pay your taxes through the internets. Much easier than having to drive to the drop box. If Ms. Monae would figure out how people could do their voting on the internets she would be famous. You would still probably have to show up and wade through a line with your driver’s license to get your secret codes to vote on the internets, but you would only have to do that once. They would have to ascertain you are who you say you are and that you are entitled to vote in the Great State of South Dakota, and not some out-of-state rabble rouser trying to use grudznick’s voting codes for your own nefarious woke needs, but then you could vote and pay your taxes on the internets.
A cost of South Dakotans ceding a legislature super-majority to one party—with no evidence of election fraud–governance by flurry of dark money funded “harder to vote/election denial” model election laws introduced—some passed. While no excuse absentee ballots were preserved, widely used “easier to vote” updates to SD laws—like online and same day voter registration—were not considered.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/05/heritage-foundation-election-voting-rights-republican-states
Yeah, the Republican freak out about dropboxes is pure bullsh*t. We all knew that. This proves it.
Well folks, Republican’s really believe that if more people vote they lose. It’s this psychological belief thingy with them. It’s why they do everything to keep voting totals down. I know it’s strange but nevertheless it’s what they believe. Sad.
The right of the Legislature to tax everything should be called into question by Democrats, Libertarians and Progressives. Given the moral shortcomings and the gamifyong of government for wealthy people, the Legislatures right to tax is NOT sacred.
Look at the frequency, buy food or eat out, you are taxed daily, 365 times a year for questionable legislative spending. Voting ? Once every 730 days, if there are no primaries. So taxation is 730 times more often than voting? This has to change.
That’s why I always advocate our First Amendment Assemblies. We can have elections every day if we want to for nonprofit or social business Assemblies, elect Senators, pass no laws and no taxes, and create and run dazzling great projects all across our state!
I saw the dropbox (looks like a suggestion box) attached to the drywall in the Fall River County courthouse on the “first floor” (actually second, because FRC can’t distinguish the ground floor from the first floor.) Sooooo, for the convenience of county residents, one must still enter the courthouse during business hours, go to the second floor, and deposit one’s check next to the motor vehicle window, if paying in person.
If you want a receipt, you must pay a dollar.
This is the stupidest s**t I’ve seen since March. Renewed my truck tags then, and paid $3,000 in property taxes while I was there. “Do you want a receipt, dear?” “No, Julie, I think I’ll just take a chance and have the Sheriff auction my property for a few shekels in October.”
OF COURSE I WANT A RECEIPT, YOU SILLY BINT!