The Bureau of Finance and Management offered what passes for optimism in Pierre last week, as it projected that the Legislature will have $19 million…
Tag: economy
Senator Art Rusch (R-17/Vermillion) is another Republican trying to raise taxes. He proposed Senate Bill 85 in another attempt to make electric vehicle owners pay…
Kristi Noem’s kids aren’t the only ones who got big raises in South Dakota this year. New data shows that, around the same time that…
Oops—wrong holiday! More coal in our stockings: those “rocket fuel” tax cuts Mike Rounds gave us for Christmas two years ago still don’t work the…
It’s been a rough couple weeks for Kristi Noem. She stuck her boot in South Dakota’s mouth with her unexpectedly (?!?) ridiculous and ridiculously expensive…
On top of Revenue Secretary Jim Terwilliger’s fiscal pessimism, the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors heard retired USD economist Ralph Brown’s assessment Wednesday of the…
Never mind my suggestion of budget optimism at the bottom of my STAR Academy post yesterday; according to information presented at yesterday’s meeting of Governor…
Senator Marion Michael Rounds shares the willful delusion of deflective Trumpists across South Dakota that his Trump Party has “pro-growth policies” that “continue to provide…
The death panels are the corporations who are pricing diabetics into dangerously rationing their insulin: As insulin prices rise, patients go without. One study in…
Please don’t tell me that talk of “recession” is just Democrats and the “liberal media” hoping for an economic downturn to fuel their own political…