Governor Dennis Daugaard's French cheese subsidy passed its first hurdle yesterday. Near the top of House Bill 1060, the big pile of revisions to this year's state budget, is an additional five million dollars in "operating expenses" for the Governor's…
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South Dakota conservatives were pleased when Governor Dennis Daugaard decided he would keep his hands clean of one element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and let the federal government run the health insurance exchange requires every state…
Dang! I was hoping that House Bill 1045, the Governor's proposed repeal of the regressive bank franchise tax rates, would provide a big windfall for the South Dakota budget. Alas, my hope was predicated on the assumption that some of…
No children have been shot and killed in our schools recently, but or Legislature is gunning to take action to arm teachers and janitors to save children from that overhyped threat. Meanwhile, no legislator yet has filed a bill this…
Why are Republican governors giving in and embracing the Medicaid expansion created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? The answer is obvious: money! It all comes down to dollar signs. If states choose to expand Medicaid, the federal…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's position on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion may be shifting a bit. In the pretty clear you-lazy-bums language of his budget address in December, he said expanding Medicaid is bad, bad, bad. But now he's saying…
Pat Powers admits he's more of a big-government liberal than I am. In fronting for the crony capitalism South Dakota practices in the name of "economic development," Powers declares the following: Our legislature needs to form a replacement plan for…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has made regular political hay of saying South Dakota's fiscal management is much better than California's. Hmm... after increasing debt under four years of Democratic Governor Gray Davis and eight years of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California…