State Income Tax Could Raise $918 Million! Eager reader Nick Krebs contributed to yesterday’s post on the LRC’s comparison of neighboring state tax systems this comment…
Tag: budget
Short-sighted Republicans resisted Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan to expand Medicaid, but part of Daugaard’s crafty plan has been saved and is saving South Dakota money.…
A new report from the LRC’s Division of Fiscal and Program Analysis finds the Department of Hunan Services “Dakota at Home” program, which helps South…
We all know that higher tobacco taxes reduce smoking. But the threat of tobacco taxes increase smoking… or at least the purchase of smokes? The…
Republicans like Drew Dennert and Kaleb Weis are running for Legislature on, among other things, their promise to find more money for all of our…
The national deficit under the first full year of Noem-Trump budgeting rose 17% to $779 billion. The federal government took in $14 billion more than…
Kristi Noem likes to pretend that funding the federal government is just like her kitchen-table economics (which she couldn’t make work without huge infusions of federal…
Shall we thank Donald Trump for proving that deficit spending doesn’t hurt the economy? Through August 2016, the FY2016 deficit was $619 billion. Through August…
The State of South Dakota is so rich— How rich is it? —the State of South Dakota is so rich that, if we all stopped…
If you looked at the Chronicle of Higher Education tables I cited in my previous post, you know this fiscal policy post is coming! The state of…