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…
Tag: sales tax
This morning’s post on Governor Dennis Daugaard’s possible flirtation with a sales tax on medical services got me reading up on Governor Bill Janklow’s retreat from…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s budget address on Tuesday will tackle one thorny contributor to South Dakota’s lagging sales tax revenues—increased spending on health care: Twenty years…
KSFY featured the three major gubernatorial candidates this week, Democrat Billie Sutton and Republicans Marty Jackley and Kristi Noem. Senator Sutton said the Republican Legislature’s…
The state Department of Education has released its official calculation of South Dakota’s average teacher pay in the first year of the extra half-penny sales…
I went to the State Fair in Huron this year and all I got was good conversation and my free De Smet Farm Mutual yardstick.…
More people bought tattoos and tacky shirts in Sturgis last month, but Rally sales didn’t lift the rest of the state. According to the Legislative…
How does a candidate for Governor of South Dakota spin losing another court case? By telling South Dakotans he’s saving them from an income tax.…
The Legislature’s Executive Board hears a report on Internet sales tax collected from out-of-state sellers tomorrow, just one day before the South Dakota Supreme Court…
Speaking of taxes, next week Tuesday, August 29, the South Dakota Supreme Court hears arguments in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Overstock, and Newegg. Our Legislature provoked…