Just a reminder that, come Saturday, you’ll pay thirty cents less in sales tax on every $100 sack of groceries from Hy-Vee:
House Bill 1137: An Act to reduce certain gross receipts tax rates and a use tax rate, and to repeal a conditional reduction of certain gross receipts tax rates.
HB 1137 cuts the state sales tax rate from 4.5% to 4.2% for the next four years. Noem described the statute as a “tax holiday” and that anyone calling it a tax cut “is lying.”
The reduced sales tax would save taxpayers about $104 million in the next year or 30 cents for every $100 spent [Gracie Terrall, “Closer Look at 8 Bills Going into Effect July 1 in South Dakota,” KELO-TV, 2023.06.26].
Of course, if you go sign Dakotans for Health’s initiative petition to repeal the sales tax on groceries and show up to vote for that initiative in November 2024, then come July 1, 2025, you’ll save another $4.20 on those Hy-Vee goods.
South Dakota voters almost always vote in favor of themselves. Then the lobbyists start to bribe the legislators and big business influencers make their own favorable laws.
Never wonder why legitimate large corporations won’t move to your state. Too much backroom subterfuge.
Thank God for some important news today! Ryan Seacrest has found gainful employment by being named the replacement for retiring Pat Sajak on “Wheel of Fortune.”
And we all knew Kristi Noep lied her scrawny butt off with that sales tax removal pledge. She’s incapable of getting anything done except pasting on makeup and sittin’ purty for Fox News. Maybe she can get a new job pointing to letters as Vanna White’s replacement. No work. No stress. Just point at the letters in the boxes. Perfect for airheads.
Pat Sajak is a Hillsdale alum and chair of their “Board of Visitors”. Perhaps Kristi can convince he and Vanna to move to South Dakota to direct her new office of Ministry of Truth.
Oopsies, Mrs. Noem caught working with The Great Satan on socialized internet John Thune voted against!
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/06/26/biden-announces-207-million-granted-south-dakota-high-speed-internet/
A few other questionable bills going into effect include (but are not limited to):
House Bill 1220: An Act to provide that a female who undergoes an unlawful abortion may not be held criminally liable. Pregnant women who receive an abortion in the state of South Dakota will not be held criminally liable, but rather the medical providers who perform the abortion will be responsible. According to codified law § 22-17-5.1, any person who administers an abortion, with the exception of the life of the mother, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
*hopefully this one helps answer bearcreekbat’s question
HB1080-outlaws gender-affirming healthcare for minors.
SB189-outlaws government officers from doing business with China, Cuba, N Korea, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
SB160-establishes post-election mandatory hand counts.
Plus over 200 more….
https://kbhbradio.com/news/laws-passed-and-signed-in-south-dakota-take-affect-july-1st
Thanks AM! HB 1220 should now (on July 1 anyway) provide a valid defense from murder charges for a woman that unlawfully terminates her pregnancy under SD’s post Roe/Dobbs newly triggered draconian restrictions. Unfortunately this bill not only omits protection for anyone one else that aids, advises or abets (i.e. helps) that pregnant woman from murder charges and the death penalty, it seems to clarify the legislative intent to do inflict such punishments of all involved except the woman, in an effort to assure that woman cannot receive medical care or be helped in any way.
bcb- in high school I ate lunch with a couple who had been together for years. Suddenly I was the only one eating. They were afraid to tell me M got pregnant. Her older sister literally just had a baby and her parents shipped her off to Job Corps, so her family was strapped, yadda, yadda. After around 4-5 days of fasting, their plan worked… today, M would be perfectly legal to starve until her period finally arrived. Yet her boyfriend and I would be jailed for fasting along with her for solidarity….. I completely forgot about those hunger days until just now. I suppose that tactic is the only legal option for young, determined, poor girls in SD that exists to abort an early pregnancy. It may have even deterred all three of us from ever wanting to go through that ever again. After that, I handed out protection to all my friends like candy. M and her old boyfriend went on to eventually have 2 kids together….
AM, the availability of safe health care for women with a problem pregnancy seems much more important than the miniscule sales tax cut on food that will go into effect in a few days. The State’s statutory authority to kill or imprison doctors and others that might provide this health care is simply unacceptable. No woman should be restricted to dangerous self help remedies like your friend M.
I’m going to be in Sioux Falls on Friday. Does anyone know, will there be a petition to sign at the courthouse? Is there a dedicated location like when petitioners setup in the old bagel boy? Thanks to any who reply.