Forcing Americans to pay huge taxes on things they purchase from other countries hasn’t sparked the surge in domestic manufacturing that Trump said his tariffs…
Tag: corporate welfare
Governor Larry Rhoden tooted South Dakota’s corporate-welfare horn yesterday, announcing that Northrop Grumman will get $2 million in free public money to build an office…
However much tax revenue legalized marijuana might generate, South Dakota doesn’t need it. The state apparently already has so much excess revenue that it’s giving…
I’ve clearly gotten through to Jon Hansen. The Speaker of the House evidently called a ceasefire in the Republican war against initiative and referendum, bringing…
The traditional Mickelson/Janklow wing of the Republican Party has been fretting that the radical rightwingers it emboldened with its tolerance of the Tea Party and…
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…
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…