Is Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether on another power trip? Earlier this month, Mayor Huether ordered a review of the Convention and Visitors Bureau Business Improvement…
Tag: taxes
South Dakota is not in the Top Ten for states relying on sin taxes. In FY 2014, we were #11: Rhode Island: 15.9% of state revenue…
Jonathan Ellis questions whether South Dakotans for Responsible Lending will be able to build an effective coalition to support its petition to cap interest rates…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t heeding the Governor’s admonition to shush until the Governor’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel issues its policy proposals. Rep. Schoenbeck offers his…
The July/August edition of the Aberdeen Chamber’s Progress magazine (not online yet, but someday…) includes an essay from NSU business dean Bill Broucek on gambling and lotteries. He…
In our continuing effort to burst Governor Dennis Daugaard’s hogwash bubble, USA Today notes that South Dakota has no income tax and still ranks us as the eighth worst state…
We should not be surprised that the Department of Revenue never thought to knock on Joop Bollen’s door and ask why he wasn’t paying bank…
DiSanto Prefers School Consolidation! State legislators Phil Jensen, Lance Russell, Blaine Campbell, and Lynne DiSanto staged a press conference yesterday to express their opposition to the Rapid…
Dr. Alan Neville, education department chair at Northern State University, says the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is rigged: …the composition…
New research from Federal Reserve experts shows that, for the most part, state taxes undo some of the efforts the federal tax code makes to reduce…