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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In my summary of Senate Bill 1, the big road-fixing, fuel-taxing bill, I mentioned that the bill exempts aviation fuel from a new 3% wholesale tax. Incurable snark that I am (maybe SAB Biotherapeutics can engineer a shot for that),…
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—bills! The first bills filed for the 2015 South Dakota Legislature don't necessarily predict how the Session will go any more than the first two tiny precincts that report…
Senator John Thune is promising sanity in Washington. Not only does he say "We're not going to shut the government down" in the GOP's ongoing attacks on President Obama, but he offers the home folks (i.e., Dennis Daugaard) some cover…
I'm reading up on the Mid-American States Purchasing Economy Survey Report, a survey of supply managers in nine states conducted monthly by Dr. Ernie Goss and associates at Creighton University's Heider College of Business. Our local press like to blurb…
If we were making a list of the top ten stories that did not happen in 2014, we'd probably want to include the fact that the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act did not lead to the collapse of…
In a holiday Facebook chat, my crazy cousin Aaron says, 'Taxation is theft!" I respond that taxation is our expression of true Rousseauian liberty (living under rules that we prescribe to ourselves) to provide public goods to sustain civil society…
Meade County Commissioners have what seems like a good transportation idea: they'd like to build a bypass east of Sturgis to connect state Highways 34 and 79 straight south to Interstate 90: This east bypass would run from the Elkview…