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Posts tagged as “taxes”

Thune Signals GOP Willing to Discuss Raising Gasoline Tax

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…

Casino States See Lower GDP Growth, Job Growth, and Education Spending

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…

Affordable Care Act Toodles Along; Tax Fun About to Begin!

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…

Meade County Plans Giant TIF District to Fund East Sturgis Bypass

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…