Daugaard Cheap? Gas Tax Hike Matches New Revenue in Senate Bill 1
Udpate 12:50 CST: My original post ignored a 3% wholesale tax imposed by Senate Bill 1. I have refigured my spreadsheet and adjusted the text here to include that new tax in this explanation. Wait a...
View ArticleDaugaard Changes Tune on Taxes Thanks to Obama Recovery
In his post-speech press conference yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard responded to the criticism he knew was coming that his proposed tax and fee increases for road repairs violate his 2010 election...
View ArticleDaugaard Agnostic on Teacher Shortage; Legislators Peeling Away from Denialism
I guess Governor Daugaard is going to go full-tilt global-warming denialism on South Dakota's teacher shortage: Instead of offering answers during an appearance on Argus Leader's "100 Eyes" program,...
View ArticleDaugaard Forks Tongue on EPA Regulations, Funding for Roads and Schools
I must give John Tsitrian kudos for catching Governor Dennis Daugaard in a brilliant contradiction. In Tuesday's Rapid City Journal, Governor Daugaard responds to a question about South Dakota's weak...
View ArticleLeola Superintendent: Teacher Pay Depends on State Funding
Rebuttal of the week to gubernatorial malarkey on K-12 education funding comes from Leola superintendent Brian Heupel, who offers this observation on Governor Dennis Daugaard's persistent shirking of...
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Sen. Novstrup Shares Comparison of Road Tax-Fix Plans
How I wish I could be in Aberdeen to join Ken Santema at the Legislative crackerbarrels! My Libertarian blogospheric colleague is providing excellent coverage of Legislative issues. Yesterday he got...
View ArticleDaugaard Letting Political Capital Go to Waste
Jonathan Ellis comes to the same conclusion I offered after the budget address two months ago:—with his vanilla budget, Governor Dennis Daugaard is letting his enormous political capital go stale:...
View ArticleHouse Approps OKs $6.3M for Governor’s Priorities, Nixes $700K for Tribal...
House Appropriations felt like spending money yesterday. The committee heard five bills and approved four of them: House Bill 1147 would spend $1.274 million to increase the merit-based Opportunity...
View ArticleCompromise à la Pierre: Propose 42% Solution, Let Governor Cut Plan in Half
On Inside KELOLand last night, Senator Scott Parsley (D-8/Madison) said that the Highway Needs and Financing Committee, of which he was a member, identified $240 million in road maintenance needs. The...
View ArticleDems Working with Docs on Medicaid Expansion; Daugaard Open?
Could Medicaid expansion happen this year? South Dakota has already given up two of the best years of the federal government's offer under the Affordable Care Act to cover most of the cost of putting...
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