Counties had a good news/bad news week in Pierre. Senate Bill 2, which would give counties a portion of alcohol tax revenues, made it through its first…
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Republican pollster Glen Bolger has found stronger support for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay than this week’s liberal Dakota Free Press poll. Bolger’s Public…
The #1 item on the South Dakota Legislature’s agenda is the opportunity to raise South Dakota teacher pay from 51st in the nation to 37th… or maybe…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just made an interesting argument on SDPB Dakota Midday in the debate between the competing proposals for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay…
Meanwhile, in local corporate welfare news, my city council is formalizing some handouts to big corporations. Ordinance 16-01-03 received a favorable first reading last night, with the six…
Dakota Free Press Legislative Proposals DFP Bill 1: Restrict Eminent Domain DFP Bill 2: Clarify Voting Residence DFP Bill 3: Reform Sales Tax DFP Bill…
The latest Dakota Free Press poll finds strong support for tax reform in South Dakota. I offered you ten proposals that came up in our discussion of…
Just what I wanted in my Christmas stocking—the first bills of the 2016 Legislative Session! HB, SB, whee whee whee! Now listed on the website that…
Former State Senator Stanford Adelstein pays me to advertise his blog, but he doesn’t have to pay me to link to his solution to raising teacher pay…
The FY2017 budget proposed yesterday by Governor Dennis Daugaard includes $989,613,013 (you could round that to one billion) in “tax expenditures,” also known as tax breaks. Tax…