As we get ready to enjoy paying 4.2% state sales tax instead of 4.5%, longtime economic justice advocate Cathy Brechtelsbauer wants us to remember that…
Tag: property tax
After a tornado wrecked Castlewood’s school last May, the community rallied to make temporary learning space while the school rebuilds. Last week when the school board…
Hang on—Kristi Noem may get to make us eat our words about her food-tax fecklessness yet! In another example of how no bill ever totally…
I’m having lots of fun ridiculing Governor Kristi Noem for being as ineffective as South Dakota Democrats in repealing our unusual and immoral sales tax…
Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) declined to say Tuesday whether Governor Kristi Noem’s promised food-tax repeal was totally dead after Republicans on House Appropriations…
The big property-tax break bill is in the hopper. On Tuesday, Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) filed House Bill 1043, her interim tax committee’s proposal…
Who says Republicans won’t vote to raise your taxes? The Sioux Falls City Council is controlled by a Republican mayor and a Republican majority, and…
Now that Tim Goodwin has been voted out of the Legislature after three terms of largely bad ideas, maybe he can focus his energy on…
Uh oh—Republicans are proposing competition for the food-tax repeal. Before the election, Governor Kristi Noem reversed her long-standing opposition to repealing South Dakota’s regressive and…
The Republicans who have captured the Sioux Falls City Council are looking to tax things more. Specifically, they want to lift the cap on assessments…