Senate Bill 86, Senator Jeff Partridge’s effort to backtrack on his famous 2016 amendment’s promise to give back that year’s half-penny sales tax hike with…
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Senate Bill 86, Senator Jeff Partridge’s (R-34/Rapid City) effort to undo his famous 2016 sales tax give-back amendment, got out of the Senate this week,…
Sister Pat Prunty from the Presentatation convent came to crackerbarrel, as the Sisters regularly do, to ask legislators about relieving the poor of the regressive…
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…
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…