After House State Affairs rejected a 50-year sales tax exemption for data centers earlier this month, Senate State Affairs this week approved a complicated plan…
Tag: corporate welfare
Corporate welfare is bad enough, but now the state of South Dakota is forking out cash to China. Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods has a problem: CEO…
On August 25, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development reported on its corporate-socialism handouts to the Government Operations and Audit Committee. The report includes this…
The Legislature is cooking up more corporate welfare. Senate Bill 157 from Senator David Wheeler (R-22/Huron) would exempt big data centers from paying gross receipts tax…
Yesterday I read the prospectus Tru Shrimp sent the Securities and Exchange Commission and learned that the Minnesota company says it will run out of…
South Dakota’s Board of Economic Development has raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour… for businesses seeking 2% loans from the Revolving Economic…
Speaking of government keeping South Dakota afloat, here’s an up-to-date list from the Bureau of Finance and Management of the 65 organizations that have received…
Governor Kristi Noem and her minions insist South Dakota isn’t ready to legalize medical marijuana. Voters approved opening South Dakota for medical marijuana business come…
Sioux Falls is falling all over itself to give up tax dollars to corporations who don’t need any more incentive to move to one of…
While anti-government right-winger Rep. Steven Haugaard proposes big-government intrusion in family affairs, pragmatic Democratic House Minority Leader Jamie Smith proposes state government intervention in the…