Wow! Thanks to the generous alacrity of Attorney General Marty Jackley, the rightwingers trying to abolish property tax still have a chance to get their…
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Attorney General Marty Jackley has posted his draft explanation of the proposed initiated amendment to ban property taxes and replace them with a retail transaction…
Rick Knobe says he’s qualified but too old and too Sioux Falls to run for Governor: I’m from Sioux Falls. Nobody from Sioux Falls has…
Here, Spencer, take this mirror… In the January 17 House State Affairs hearing on 2025 House Joint Resolution 5003, now Amendment L on the 2026…
Democracy isn’t dead yet. In a significant victory for South Dakotans’ right to make their own laws, U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler ruled that…
One of the arguments Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) has made in his ongoing war against initiative and referendum is that he…
Julie Frye-Mueller says the retail transaction tax she and her hubby Mike may try putting to a public vote would make South Dakota’s tax system…
Radical Republicans Mike Mueller and Julie Frye-Mueller are pushing an initiated amendment to replace South Dakota’s property tax with a tax on retail transactions. There…
Replacing Property Tax with Retail Transaction Tax Lacks Philosophical Commitment to Property RIghts
Mike Mueller and Julie-Frye-Mueller are trying to replace property tax with a retail transaction tax because, the cons contend, property tax is “immoral“: Property Taxes…
Three weeks ago, Northern Plains News reported that Boobgate stars Mike Mueller and Julie Frye-Mueller and their fellow radical Republican Matt Smith are promoting an…