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Daugaard to Recruit Illinois Tax Dodgers

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed into law a big increase in his state's income tax. The individual rate jumps from 3% to 5%, while the business rate rises from 4.8% to 7%. Illinois faces a budget deficit, just as…

Big Oil Fights EPA 15% Ethanol Rule

Business is complicated. This week three Big Oil groups---the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, the International Liquid Terminals Association, and the Western States Petroleum Association---asked District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's increase of…

Baltic Corner Supports Smoking Ban

South DaCola notes that nanny-state whiners need to take one more example off their list of ills purportedly caused by the smoking ban approved by 64% of South Dakota voters. An article in last Sunday's edition of that Sioux Falls…

Smoking Ban: Video Gambling Down, Bar and Restaurant Revenue Up!

Father Tim celebrates the apparent decline of vice in South Dakota. The Northern Plains Anglican reads in that Sioux Falls paper that video lottery revenue in the three weeks following implementation of the voter-approved indoor smoking ban dropped 19.1%. Good…