South Dakota lagged on three economic indicators in 2017. According to Mike Maciag’s analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis data, South Dakota had below average…
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On March 23, Donald Trump pressed Play on his impulsive, destructive tariffs against Chinese steel and aluminum. Yesterday (Monday in China, so kinda-sorta today), the calm,…
The only discussion of Medicaid expansion in the Legislature this year was a failed attempt by Trumpy Republican legislators, scared of both Barack Obama and…
The Department of Revenue’s 2017 Annual Report includes this map showing that South Dakota has the lowest tax burden in the septa-state region: Yet last…
Donald Trump hailed with a tweet the Senate’s passage of the rushed and oopsied Republican tax plan, calling it “the biggest in history Tax Cut….”…
…and Immigrants Promote Marriage! Maybe the Farm Bureau is backing the Trump Tax because they are a bunch of corporate tools. Or maybe they’re willing…
Donald Trump has been claiming credit for the rise of the stock market since before the Inauguration. Under Obama, Trump thought the rising market was just…
Senator John Thune tells WNAX that South Dakotans will see significant benefits from the Senate tax plan: In South Dakota, according to the Tax Foundation,…
The United States is rife with empirical counterexamples to the voodoo economics that Donald Trump, John Thune, Mike Rounds, and Kristi Noem are peddling to sell…