Peters, Sutton, Tidemann, Ahlers, Anderson, Bartels—these are the six legislators whose phones should ring more than anyone else’s today. The Senate tapped the brakes yesterday on…
Tag: sales tax
The key exchange over the Legislature’s cancellation of its promise to dedicate 63% of last year’s half-cent sales tax increase to teacher pay came in House…
The Legislature won’t give teachers any more money, but it won’t take any more money from retailers. The House yesterday shot down House Appropriations chief…
Hey, do you remember how the Legislature got lots of us to support increasing the state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% last year by promising…
House Appropriations chair Representative David Anderson grabbed Senate Bill 106 this morning and stuffed that last empty carcass bill with a tax increase. Now the Republicans who…
Your economic puzzle for the day comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which finds that, in the third quarter of 2016, South Dakota had…
Three months ago, Governor Dennis Daugaard said the state revenue outlook wasn’t great. Today, his Bureau of Finance and Management tells us the revenue outlook is worse…
During last year’s debate over raising sales tax to raise teacher pay, conservative Republicans like Representative Elizabeth May justified their opposition to the plan by endorsing…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just finished his penultimate (Lori Walsh used that word—bless you, dear lady!) State of the State Address to the 2017 Legislature. The three biggest…
The Legislative Research Council updated its revenue report last week to show how we’re doing on general fund receipts through November. Due mostly to lagging sales…