Governor Kristi Noem has vetoed five bills in the 2023 Legislative Session. One veto has already been sustained; the other four will be discussed by…
Tag: taxes
Governor Kristi Noem told KELO-TV’s Perry Groten yesterday that House Bill 1137, the Legislature’s 0.3-percentage-point reduction of the state sales tax rate, isn’t really a…
Perhaps true Republicans should be glad that Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) struggles to get any of his bills passed. The Senate has had to kill…
California can figure out how to tax lithium mining, but South Dakota can’t. Representative Kirk Chaffee (R-29/Whitewood) proposed House Bill 1072 to subject lithium to…
Mayor Paul TenHaken says Sioux Falls’s population increased by about 7,000 in 2022. So I guess the problems he sees arising from that growth are…
Who says Republicans won’t vote to raise your taxes? The Sioux Falls City Council is controlled by a Republican mayor and a Republican majority, and…
News of the latest round of big-government handouts to subsidize capitalism in South Dakota (including a million bucks to Manitou for expanding its factories in…
Senator John Thune continues to complain that the Internal Revenue Service is actually going to work harder to enforce the tax laws: Although there are…
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader gets around to fact-checking Kristi Noem’s campaign squawking about Democratic candidate for governor Jamie Smith’s proposal to tax marijuana to make up…
Even the conservative Cato Institute agrees that Kristi Noem isn’t that great of a governor. In its 16th biennial Fiscal Policy Report Card grading governors’…