A week ago I provoked some discussion with a post on a 1970s experiment in providing a guaranteed minimum income to a rural community in Manitoba. I put up some back-of-the-envelope numbers that showed South Dakota could redirect half of…
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The Bureau of Finance and Management issued it latest report on South Dakota's economy Wednesday. How're we doing? As of November 2014, our non-farm employment was up 3,000 jobs, 0.7%, over November 2013. Financial activities, education and health, and leisure…
When I've helped people do their income taxes, I've pointed to the total tax (Line 63 on this year's 1040) and said, "That's your price for being an American." But what if taxes worked the other way? What if the…
I'm spending my Fourth of July in exile from the land I love. There will be no fireworks for us tonight; we saw our fireworks on Tuesday, Canada Day, over English Bay in Vancouver. We will spend our America Day…
O.K., neither Gerald Ford nor Dennis Daugaard actually said "Drop dead." But South Dakota's Governor may as well have said that to future philosophers and other aspiring devotées of the humanities at Girls' State yesterday at USD: “I’m not saying…
Mr. Tsitrian directs our attention to the latest refutation of the South Dakota GOP's fantasy that their low-tax policies attract residents and businesses. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities grinds through all sorts of data to tell us South…
My tabs are like tribbles; time to clear the queue! Teen pregnancy and abortion rates are at all-time lows in the U.S. The Guttmacher Institute reports that from 2008 to 2010, teen pregnancy and abortion rates declined in every state…
Too many tabs open: time to clear the queue! Here's a potpourri of my weekend reading: 1. My friend The Displaced Plainsman offers his take on a fascinating study that finds beautiful people rationalizing their genetic good fortune into a…