The federal government appears to be having the same trouble with sluggish tax revenues that South Dakota is having. On Wednesday, super-rich Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin…
Tag: taxes
Pat Powers reworks industry propaganda into dry rah-rah blurb on the House Republican tax plan, which includes the hilariously bad and widely opposed Border Adjustment Tax. Power recycles…
When we celebritize our politics, we end up with an idiot as President. With that caution in mind, I note that celebrity Jimmy Kimmel, who is speaking out on…
Rep. Kristi Noem and just enough other House Republicans voted to take Medicaid away from special education students, make insurance more expensive for women who’ve been raped,…
Gordon Howie bemoans the expansion of food stamps and taxes under the governorship of his fellow Republicans Dennis Daugaard and Marion Michael Rounds. Just short of 100,000…
An eager reader notices Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s (R-12/Sioux Falls) hypocrisy on funding state functions with unhealthy habits. Speaker Mickelson says there’s no way he’ll support…
Just home from the Capitol, Representative Drew Dennert sat down this evening with Dakota Free Press to talk about Veto Day. The freshman Republican and I talk…
Do millionaires move to take advantage of lower state tax rates? Yes, but not much, says this 2016 study in the American Sociological Review. Stanford researchers…
Self-employed South Dakota musician and Affordable Care Act Marketplace policyholder Jon Hegg lends his voice to an AARP video urging Congress to scrap the Republican ACA…
Governor Dennis Daugaard scratched his veto itch today. Stricken by the Governor’s pen today were these five bills: House Bill 1156: This bill would have allowed individuals with…