The Legislative Research Council reported that, as of the end of October, South Dakota was up $5.98 million in revenue collections compared to what the…
Tag: taxes
State Income Tax Could Raise $918 Million! Eager reader Nick Krebs contributed to yesterday’s post on the LRC’s comparison of neighboring state tax systems this comment…
Last month the Legislature’s Executive Board received a basket of new Issue Memoranda from the Legislative Research Council. One of the tastiest is the “Comparison…
Under the first full budget of the Trump Administration, Kristi Noem and her pal in the White House let the national debt grow 6.19%: Year…
When Airbnb agreed last year to pay South Dakota taxes, I guesstimated they’d add $200,000 to our public coffers. With my usual conservatism, I was…
We all know that higher tobacco taxes reduce smoking. But the threat of tobacco taxes increase smoking… or at least the purchase of smokes? The…
I’ve heard some opponents of Initiated Measure 25, the tobacco tax for vo-techs, say that raising the tobacco tax won’t make anyone quit smoking. But…
O.K., all you Democrats who’ve been fretting about when or whether Billie Sutton would work up the guts to drop the hammer on Kristi Noem,…
Kristi Noem is using her two weeks of unearned early vacation to tout a non-accomplishment: ICYMI>>Last week, the House PASSED Tax Reform 2.0. This legislation…
Kristi Noem celebrates American Business Women’s Day by claiming to have done all sorts of wonderful things for businesswomen. Her self-praise rings as emptily as…