I really don’t like having to say that Don Haggar and Jeff Monroe were right. But these two extremist anarcho-capitalists were right to warn us…
Tag: sales tax
Sales tax provides by far the single biggest chunk of South Dakota’s general fund revenues. In Fiscal Year 2018, the 4.5% we pay on our…
In 2016, then-Representative Don Haggar of Sioux Falls voted against adding a half-percentage point to our sales tax to raise our teacher pay. (In the…
Our U.S. Senators’ support of the big liberal Farm Bill perhaps supports State Senate Jeff Monroe’s assertion that the South Dakota Legislature will not use…
In his budget suggestions Tuesday, Governor Dennis Daugaard declined to include any revenue boost from the new remote-seller sales tax made possible by South Dakota’s…
We all get the treat of paying more for online purchases tomorrow, thanks to South Dakota’s great trick of imposing its laws in other states.…
Someone in the audience at today’s Senate forum here in Aberdeen tried to play gotcha with Senator-Elect Susan Wismer, and played it poorly. After Wismer…
The Legislature did what the Governor told them yesterday and increased the amount of sales tax that will come out of our pockets. In Special…
The Legislative Research Council has posted the three bills Governor Dennis Daugaard wants passed at the September 12 Special Session. They aren’t in nice neat…
We don’t have bills yet, but we have a rough outline of three proposals for the September 12 Special Session and the procedure by which…