Rick Weiland is still collecting signatures for his proposed constitutional amendments to protect initiative and referendum rights, but Mike Mueller, Julie Frye-Mueller, and Matt Smith…
Tag: property tax
Governor Larry Rhoden is already campaigning against the referendum of Senate Bill 245, one of two key pillars of his apparently unpopular compromise property-tax relief…
Referring a law to a public vote is interesting, not only because it tests whether a bill the Legislature passed really reflects the will of…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s wimpy Senate Bill 96 will give counties the option to impose a 0.5% sales tax to lower their property taxes. But counties…
The disgust South Dakotans feel over rising property taxes has yet to surpass the disgust their legislators feel at the prospect of implementing a state…
Bob Mercer cooks up the strange thesis that “shifting some of the property-tax burden off single-family residential dwellings” was part of an overarching effort by…
The backers of an initiated constitutional measure to abolish property tax and impose a retail transaction tax are lying to the public about its fiscal…
Amidst frustration over high property taxes and strained budgets, no one in Pierre this Session had the guts to propose taxing incomes. Such was not…
Bob Mercer writes up how Governor Larry Rhoden and Speaker Jon Hansen, rivals for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, made nicey-nice to pass property tax relief…
In floor debate on Senate Bill 245 Monday, Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) aptly summarized the nature of the transfer of wealth that will result…