Governor Dennis Daugaard joined state and local economic development officials to speak at the Brown County Fair in Aberdeen yesterday. Libertarian blogger Ken Santema attended and deemed the program a dog-and-pony show for corporate welfare. Santema summarizes the disappointing presentations…
Posts tagged as “corporate welfare”
Speaking of Republicans inspired by Communists, Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem's commitment to expanding the socialization of risk through crop insurance (the product her husband Bryon sells) will increase taxpayer costs and encourage bad farming practices. If we…
The sequester will deny some 200 South Dakota kids the benefits of Head Start. It didn't have to: Senator Stanford Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) proposed an amendment to the general appropriations bill in March that would have filled the sequester Head…
The USD-Vermillion-Eagle Creek Software corporate welfare deal has another beneficiary: InfiniteIQ Consulting. USD's documentation submitted to the Board of Regents for approval at their meeting this week in Aberdeen names both Eagle Creek and Georgia-based InfiniteIQ as partners in creating…
Get Pat Powers talking about government investment in economic development, and you're in for several good laughs. This morning Powers glances at the news that a third of South Dakota counties are losing population. (I run the Census data myself…
Bob Mercer thinks Senate Bill 235, the bipartisan omnibus economic development bill, is a proper step toward more openness about South Dakota's corporate welfare system. I've noted my approval of the openness portions of SB 235, especially the provision that…
Eagle Creek Software Services must be getting tired of working so hard trying to convince prospective employees to move their families out to Pierre. Company president Ken Behrendt says he'll bring 200 jobs to a new center in Vermillion and…