One of my commenters insists we're in for a train wreck when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act fully kicks in with its health insurance exchanges in 2014. That seems not to be the case in California: Last week,…
Posts published in June 2013
The Environmental Working Group has new farm subsidy data up for 2012. The Washington Post summarizes the data with this fun map and a list of the top Congress critters enjoying their slurps at the subsidy trough: Interesting to map…
The conservative American Enterprise Institute howls that the Senate version of the Farm Bill is full of tricks to hide increased spending and anti-free market subsidies. AEI praises the Senate for eliminating the Direct Payments program ($5 billion of savings!),…
M. Michael Rounds supporters need you to see daylight between the outside interest groups who endorse their guy and the outside groups that want someone else to run for South Dakota's open Senate seat in 2014. When the Club for…
Legislator turned Tower Erector lobbyist Todd Schlekeway stops by the Mall of America to get his picture taken at South Dakota's famous marketing kiosk: "No Personal Income Tax Means YOU KEEP 7% MORE* of Your Paycheck," reads the kiosk sign…
Governor Dennis Daugaard was strangely absent from a summit of South Dakota's nine tribes held May 15 through May 17 in Rapid City to discuss South Dakota's failure to comply with the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. Given the charges…