A new report from the Tax Foundation finds that in 2011, South Dakotans enjoyed the third-lowest state and local tax burden as a percentage of per capita income in the nation: South Dakota's state/local tax burden actually dropped 0.7 percentage…
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We're rich! So says Rep. Bernie Hunhoff as he gazes upward at the towering pile of money in South Dakota's state budget reserves: South Dakotans, your state trust & reserve funds grew $21 million in the last month to a…
Redistribution, please: So does reducing inequality through redistribution hurt economic growth? Not according to two landmark studies by economists at the International Monetary Fund, which is hardly a leftist organization. The first study looked at the historical relationship between inequality…
The following claims from fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth are logically incompatible: In December, Bosworth told the Senate Ethics Committee that from January 1, 2012, to her date of filing, she had earned $17,662. In that same document, Bosworth…
Under Toby's apt inquiry into the South Dakota values expressed by Governor Dennis Daugaard's State of the State address, eager reader Wayne questions the Governor's cherry-picking of economic data: "In the third quarter last year, personal income growth compared to…
Pierre has been too busy tooting its own horn about ad hoc funding for Mount Rushmore to shout much about the Tax Foundation's latest low-tax propaganda declaring South Dakota great for business and Minnesota awful due to state tax policy.…
CNN Money lists what they call the 50 best small towns in the United States. They fail to include anyplace in South Dakota on that list. Seriously? Have you people not been to Spearfish?! The survey looked at towns with…
The New York Times last week ran a fascinating map of economic mobility in the United States. South Dakota sites amidst a belt of Grain Plains opportunity, where apparently young people have a better chance of climbing from the bottom…