Among the bills crushed in Capitol crossover last week was House Bill 1309, Rep. Elizabeth May’s crafty plan to subject the $1.11 billion we give up…
Tag: sales tax
I caught the tail end of a really cool Legislative trick in House Taxation this morning. One of the wiliest coyotes in the House, Republican…
One jar of peanut butter. A Sioux Falls woman brought one jar of peanut butter to Senate Taxation this morning. Her furnace broke down this…
At today’s crackerbarrel in Aberdeen, Senator Brock Greenfield professed the Socratic wisdom of the South Dakota Legislature: Local lobbyist Julie Johnson had asked “anybody who…
But Cut the Sales Tax on Food? Perish the Thought! My neighbor Betty Sheldon made an impassioned plea to legislators at Saturday’s crackerbarrel to protect…
As the youngest member of the Legislature, twenty-something rookie Rep. Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) is most attuned to the hopes and fears of young’uns on the…
South Dakota Republicans are salivating at the prospect of judicial activists overturning stare decisis and allowing South Dakota to conscript out-of-state businesses in South Dakota’s effort…
Rep. Leslie Heinemann (R-8/Flandreau) is hoping Christmas shopping will save the Legislature from having to go along with Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed zero increase in…
The real positive news from Game, Fish, & Parks is that our state parks are outperforming sales tax revenues and the general economy. The agenda…
In his final budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard showed he intends to go out with a whimper, not a bang. Faced with troublingly stagnant sales…