Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) can be happy that he was wrong. Three months ago, Senator Monroe predicted the Legislature would repeal the Partridge Amendment. Cue…
Tag: sales tax
Hey, where’d the Partridge Amendment go? After all the work Senator Jeff Partridge (R-34/Rapid City) did to rewrite his automatic sales tax reduction into the…
At Saturday’s crackerbarrel, Sister Kathleen Bierne asked Representative Drew Dennert to use his influence to push the food tax cut that he helped Democrats hijack…
Senate Bill 86, the Partridge Backtrack, has turned into the 2018 Nesiba food-tax break. House Taxation’s hearing on SB 86 started normally enough yesterday, with…
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…
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…