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…
Tag: taxes
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’…
Democratic candidate for governor Jamie Smith notes that his opponent has brought South Dakotans one new tax—a KRISTI Tax: Fireworks fuss, nepotism, Amendment A litigation,…
At Monday’s forum with the Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary Club, Democratic candidate for governor Jamie Smith said we could tax recreational marijuana, if voters legalize…