Still no really juicy stuff in the Legislative hopper. A few of the new bills that have popped up in the last 24 hours: Senate Bill 17 would take property leased by the Science and Technology Authority for certain purposes…
Posts tagged as “taxes”
Let's see if Kristi Noem will vote to put money in my pocket.... The new GOP majority in the U.S. House includes some members who would like to give homeschooling families a tax break. The New York Times is hosting…
Dr. Blanchard tasks me as usual. He presents the following chart as evidence that the wealthy pay "way more" than their fair share of federal income taxes: On its own, the graphic is compelling. The top 1% collect 18% of…
Incoming (that's what teachers and school boards should start shouting any time Republicans enter the room) South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson demonstrates the warped free market fundamentalism that pollutes our public policy. At the end of the 2010…
Father Tim celebrates the apparent decline of vice in South Dakota. The Northern Plains Anglican reads in that Sioux Falls paper that video lottery revenue in the three weeks following implementation of the voter-approved indoor smoking ban dropped 19.1%. Good…
What's that under my tree? Christmas bills! Yahoo! Start your RSS engines: the first pieces of legislation to be proposed in the 2011 session of the South Dakota State Legislature are in the e-hopper. First in from the State House:…
I see the Madison Central School District has posted a list of absentee voting opportunities. Permit me to post the schedule hear in clean and simple text to spare you the trouble of clicking on the school's needlessly bandwidthy PDF:…
If Madville Times readers have anything to say about, the school will have a hard time passing its bond issue. In the latest Madville Times poll, I asked "How will you vote on Madison's $16.98 million new gym/high school renovation…