I noted in yesterday's post on South Dakota's exported tax burden that, according to 2010 data, South Dakotans earned nearly the national average per capita income but paid over a third less in state and local taxes on that wealth.…
Posts tagged as “Medicaid”
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post backs what I said last week: expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act could save South Dakota money: Republican governors who are threatening to opt out of the Medicaid expansion — which could deprive…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is trying to get out of signing on to the Affordable Care Act's sensible and Constitutional expansion of Medicaid by saying it would cost South Dakota too much to take care of more low-income workers and families:…
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley strives mightily to spin some consolation out of yesterday's crushing defeat of his Tea Party intentions. In his press release on the Supreme Court's general rejection of his lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act,…
As the bad news rolls in about the South Dakota Republican Party's continuing war on teachers, I take small comfort in seeing our legislators having the good sense to whack at least a few bad ideas. I noted the demise…
Medicaid works. New research says just how well. In what is being called a "landmark" study, Harvard prof Katherine Baicker, MIT prof Amy Finkelstein, and a whole bunch of other smart people look at the effects of a unique Medicaid…
South Dakota's 2012 ballot could include a provocative tax proposal. Madison superintendent Vince Schaefer tells the school board that many education and health care groups are preparing a petition drive to put a 1% sales tax up for a public…