With the possibility that laggardly South Dakota may finally expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, let’s take a moment to consider Medicaid fraud. The people South Dakota…
Tag: budget
It bothers me that some people who can work will become more dependent on government…. I hate that. I hate dependency. —Governor Dennis Daugaard, FY2017 budget…
The FY2017 budget proposed yesterday by Governor Dennis Daugaard includes $989,613,013 (you could round that to one billion) in “tax expenditures,” also known as tax breaks. Tax…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed FY2017 budget does not mention the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s recommendation to allocate at least $75 million to raise teacher pay. The…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is not ready to pay for competitive teacher salaries yet, but he is ready to pay for lawyers. In the FY2017 budget proposal released…
Democrats may be annoyed by yet another miserly budget address from a governor who doesn’t fully put his money where his mouth is on vital public goods. But the…
Bob Mercer joins many other South Dakotans in wishing that Governor Dennis Daugaard would use his budget address this afternoon to address corruption in state government. It seems…
Among other items on its agenda for this week’s meeting in Spearfish, the South Dakota Board of Regents will take up its plan to take over administration…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students offers a couple of helpful charts to illustrate the hole we’ve dug for our state funding of K-12…
Finding $75 million to increase pay is $32 million more difficult, according to information presented to the state Council of Economic Advisers yesterday: Jim Terwilliger told members…