Last month I laid out cuts Madison Central could make to meet the budget shortfall Governor Dennis Daugaard and our Senator Russell Olson will create if they pass their desired 10% cut to state K-12 aid. Firing eighteen teachers would…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard has thus far kept a pretty tight focus on practical budget issues and stayed away from the culture war that some legislators insist on fighting. But Rep. Phil Jensen's hoghouse amendment of his own HB 1171 into…
Even as he proposes 10% cuts to education, Medicaid, and other vital social services, Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to extend handouts to big corporations, in hopes of drawing more business to the state. (That bill, HB 1230, is on the…
Today's good-old-boy trivia: Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson and Governor Dennis Daugaard are frat brothers. From Senator Olson's new Facebook page: Among my visions of dystopia is a government run by frat boys.
I'm not the only person concerned that Governor Dennis Daugaard's austere fiscal principles may lack consistency. Consider the points from Bob Mercer and David Montgomery, who get paid good money to think and write about issues like this. Montgomery gently…
Governor Daugaard insists that we can't raise taxes. He frets that taxes now could hinder economic growth, even though his 10% budget cuts could do even more damage to the South Dakota economy. So Governor Daugaard, tell us what's not…
Governor Daugaard staunchly opposes raising taxes to solve South Dakota's budget deficit: I... believe that the worse [sic] time to raise taxes is when you're trying to climb out of a recession. I think that will have every bit of…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is asking everyone in South Dakota---teachers, principals, doctors, nursing home directors, students paying tuition, state employees going three years without raises, any citizen relying on public services---to make permanent sacrifices (the "new norm") to eliminate our state's…