Right-Wingnut Excuses Dodging Sales Tax with Anti-Government Ramble
Brad Ford is the worst writer in Gordon Howie's Potemkin-village blogroll. Howie and Ed Randazzo are permanently reality-challenged, but at least I can understand their primal screams of Guns, God, and...
View ArticleDaugaard Makes Unlikely Pitch for Amazon Warehouse
Mr. Montgomery reports that Governor Dennis Daugaard is trying to get Amazon to move a warehouse to South Dakota. The main motivation discussed in the article is sales tax revenue. According to...
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Facts Make No on 16 Easy; Facts on Extra-Penny Sales Tax Make Decision Tougher
Bob Mercer says the large number of undecided voters on South Dakota's three big ballot measures results from a lack of information. Lack of information? Good grief! The Madville Times alone offers...
View ArticleDistrict 19 Dems Host Ballot Measure Info Sessions; Next in Parkston Thursday
Rep. Frank Kloucek and fellow District 19 Democrat Alan Fenner aren't just campaigning for themselves. They are taking time to fulfill the first duty of a candidate: leading a public conversation about...
View ArticleDebunking Two Big Lies about Initiated Measure 15
I voted for Initiated Measure 15, the extra-penny sales tax to fund K-12 education and Medicaid. I'm not deeply enamored with IM15. There are decent arguments against this regressive tax. Whether IM15...
View ArticleMadison Sales Tax Revenue Up, But Not as Much as Neighbors’
The glass is half full, says the City of Madison. City Finance Officer Jennifer Eimers reports that Madison's sales tax revenue increased 5.4% in 2012. But the glass is half empty, Chuck Clement ends...
View ArticleSioux Falls Lessons for Billings: Sales Tax and Infrastructure?
Billings, Montana, wants to be better. It wants to be like Sioux Falls. Billings economic development boss Steve Arveschoug and other interested Billingsians visited our eastern Queen City last month...
View ArticleSchool Boards Propose Extra-Penny Summer Sales Tax to Halve Teacher Pay Gap...
The Associated School Boards of South Dakota have a plan for starting to raise our rock-bottom teacher salaries to competitive levels by charging more sales tax in the summer: The average salary for a...
View ArticleDaugaardonomics Producing Lower Sales Tax Growth Than Roundsonomics
The South Dakota Retailers Association lists monthly sales tax revenue reports from January 2004 up to October 2014. According to those numbers, monthly sales tax receipts decreased over the...
View ArticleMoonshot Teacher Pay Plan Makes Mainstream Press
Patrick Anderson features my moonshot plan to raise teacher pay $10,000, to 34th in the nation, on the education e-pages of that Sioux Falls paper. My plan secures that monumental raise, around $92...
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