When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
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The House GOP tax plan is in a tight mathematical spot. Republicans authorized only (hee hee!) $1.5 trillion in additional deficit spending over the next…
On NPR this morning, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia) expressed his support for repealing the state-and-local tax deduction by asking rhetorically if it’s fair to ask…
The Trump/Noem tax plan includes a provision at the bottom (Section 5201, the penultimate section, page 423) that would allow religious non-profits to endorse or…
South Dakota Public Utilities Commissioner Chris Nelson, a gooder Republican than whom there is not, today cast doubt on the Trump/Noem tax plan. It started…
[Updated 15:17 CDT] Now that we have actual bill text, I have recalculated the impact of the Trump/Noem tax plan. Where the early Trump/Noem talking…
One good thing came out of Rep. Kristi Noem’s mouth yesterday. South Dakota’s lone Congresswoman seconds the motion of other Republicans to keep Donald Trump’s off-the-cuff…
Rep. Kristi Noem said her choice to abandon the House Agriculture Committee to move to House Ways and Means would mean she could do more for…
Tax increases are great, says Governor Dennis Daugaard! In this video Tweeted by his office Friday, He cheers the increased government activity made possible by…