The New York Times reports that South Dakota is #4 among the "Terrible 10"... for regressive state and local taxes. According to data from a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the percentage of income that…
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Larry Kurtz gets me reading this Wallet Hub ranking of the fairness of state tax systems. Wallet Hub asked 1,050 Americans to say what percentage (between 0 and 25) of income households in ten income brackets ought to pay in…
Indian voters and their advocates have won a favorable settlement of an important voting rights lawsuit in Montana. The Wandering Medicine v. McCulloch Indian voting rights lawsuit in Montana has many parallels to the Brooks v. Gant case in South…
Mr. Kurtz quite aptly points to Montana Democrats' can-do attitude as a model for South Dakota Democrats: Democrats fielded at least one candidate in every contested Montana House and Senate seat by the filing deadline Monday, and said they’re primed…
Rapid City lawyer and shiny Republican light Sara Frankenstein likes working on Indian voting rights cases. She does not, alas, like Indian voting rights. Frankenstein tried to defend South Dakota counties and Secretary of State Jason Gant in Brooks v.…
Libertarian metalheads pretending to mint currency for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe are also spreading their scam to the Crow Tribe in Montana. Eddie Allen, "director" of "Sovereign Economics," has been working since March with Crow officials to help him sell…
Mr. Kurtz further drives my blog cycle with this note from the Montana ACLU celebrating a judge's suspension of Montana's death penalty. Judge Jeffrey Sherlock found three problems with Montana's lethal injection protocol: The requirement that the warden be the…