Was I saying that it was getting a little saltier in the race for Governor?
After criticism from Congressman Dusty Johnson over his property tax plan being an increase in sales taxes, Governor Larry Rhoden has released an attack ad against Dusty based on his being elected to serve in Washington, referring to him as a DC politician:
I suspect that the candidates are going to continue to split hairs over tax plan, since it does actually take sales tax funds and shift them to offset property taxes.
And I’m sure the terminology will continue to be debated for some time.
Technically, I believe the Janklow property tax cuts were the largest property tax reduction in SD history. But it’s campaign season, and the candidates have a meat-and-potatoes issue to dig into.
Demo here Not bad ad Ain’t gonna save his butt.. but
I wonder what other South Dakotan spent 4 terms in Congress. Before running for Governor of South Dakota?
yeah it’s good, make friends in DC, then when you come back to visit as a governor who wants something from them, they already know who you are.
excellent!!
But Governor Larry Rhoden you and Jon Hansen did raises taxes being a shift from property to sales tax which is regressive hitting the poor, working poor, South Dakotans on fixed incomes and middle class the hardest.
They sure did and people will feel it soon.
Wait and see what comes no matter who wins.
Ironically, the weakest candidate in the field has the best campaign ads. It’s likely Larry Rhoden will make history as the first incumbent governor to finish last in a primary, but it won’t be because of his ads. It’s because he’s just not a good candidate.
Just wait and see. The primary hasn’t even been started yet.
This seems like more of a response to the attack ad on Rhoden.
Exactly my thought. This is not an attack, it’s a defense ad. I just listened two minutes ago to the Rushmore Principles/Dusty/possible Doeden attack ad. SO not South Dakotan. Reminds me of when Kristi got Billie Sutton’s neighbors to talk bad about him in a commercial. That one hit me in the gut and I know none of them.
Downright pathetic.
And people want property tax relief and it has to come from somewhere to offset to some degree. But the same people are wondering why they haven’t seen it yet. Um, because it just passed…?? Ok, maybe we don’t have some of the brightest homeowner voters in our state.
As long as people wake up to Dusty he suddenly has a solution to all the problems and has been in politics his entire life and hasn’t solved them yet but magically he can (IF YOU VOTE FOR ME) I can’t believe people actually buy his bullshit. He is the weakest of the 4 candidates he just has out of state dc money to carry him .
Toby you are even worse!
Right on! Most of his solutions are things that have already been done or are currently being done.
What fool is going to give this dying campaign money to air this?
Dying? You speaking from one poll? That same poll says over 53% approve and he’s also got the lowest disapproval rating compared to Kristi, Rounds and Thune. Not sure why they didn’t include Dusty in that same approval/disapproval poll. Hmmm. Makes one wonder.
https://www.sdnewswatch.org/south-dakota-poll-trump-noem-rounds-thune-rhoden/?utm_content=buffer28e45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwdGRjcARU0g1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7uZAQi4IE6R2ZeYWOTkWgS-1AClKRtaF7TjRgeKxvOj6NN26QlEaA_ru1nsg_aem_S_FHGCwf9ckMm9q0KxCs5Q
It’s not just one, it’s the trend my friend.
It’s like dating, Larry has been friend zoned. Generally favorable, but given the choice people prefer others.
Not an attack, a defense
Good ad. Powerful message
I agree it’s a great ad! I don’t mind Dusty but that was dirty and the response outdid him. He may have shifted people from Doeden to Jon but not from Dusty to Rhoden. I really question the logic of these people. Do you seriously not know voters???
Washington BAD! Pierre GOOD!
If “trillion dollar” Dusty becomes governor, insiders say he will unravel Rhoden’s property tax cuts (essentially, raise property taxes) and dump the money into the black hole of government.
for all the wailing and complaining from the people who have never left South Dakota, things are pretty good here..Those of us who have lived in other states think South Dakota is Heaven on Earth.
In other states, residents pay sales taxes plus property taxes plus state income taxes, and still have lousy roads and schools. On top of that, home and auto insurance costs are ridiculous, mostly because of crime.
If you don’t like it here, go spend a year living somewhere else. That will solve the problem, because SD doesn’t need to be fixed, YOU need to be fixed.
I can’t wait for 10% sales tax. Let the good times roll!
Where did you live outside of South Dakota?
Try California
Exactly.
According to some actual data and not anecdotal ramblings, we’re doing ok. Lower than all of our neighbors (except Nebraska)
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-live-in/62617
other than the usual panhandlers on interstate exits, we do not have the boulevards lined with tents, tarps, pallets, garbage and junk cars used as dwellings by homeless junkies.
And it’s all jurisdictional, not economic. Go out to Oregon and you’ll notice it abruptly ends at the Multnomah County line.
No, what we have is a slow rot and quiet poverty. There is hardly a single town outside of the I-29 corridor or the Black Hills that is growing. Drive through any small town that’s even slightly off the beaten track and there are more empty storefronts than not and dilapidated homes on every block. We have decades of brain drain, an economy that is nearing recession, and a faction of politicos who are doing their damnest to chase out large companies that can/do contribute hundreds of millions of dollars in payroll.
So no, we don’t have to adopt policies that Oregon does, but it’s clear that our neighboring states are doing some things a lot better than us and it warrants some examinations at least, versus your ostrich-in-the-sand mentality.
If you listen to people from other states, South Dakota has lower taxes than most, lower crime, and great people. You sound like a Dusty commercial.
Small towns are dying because people don’t want to live more than five miles away from the nearest Walmart. And Walmart drives the demise of small retail businesses that used to line the main streets all over the country.
It’s ridiculous to believe that if we just elect the right governor, people will move out to small towns, make babies and shop at farmers’ markets. Are you doing that? Do you live on a farm and have more than six kids?
Used to be, women started having babies at 16 and had one every other year until they turned 40 or died.
I would love to hear your plan to make women choose to do that again.
No, people want jobs, affordable houses, good schools, and community. Not Walmarts. Only out of touch jerkoffs make such wide-sweeping generalizations.
You want people to start having more kids? Look then at what’s happening in South Tyrol. The only region of Italy to have a birth rate that isn’t abysmal. And you want to know what they do? They give families a fighting chance to not be crushed by debt. They view kids as an investment, not a cost. Does that mean we have to adopt everything they do, absolutely not, but if we at least as a society thought of kids not as burdens but as investments, we would all be better off.
And you know what asshole, yes my family and I are trying make our town and rural community better. So until you actually open your worldview, read some economic development literature, go pound sand.
Unless YOU, personally, are willing to move to a small town and raise a dozen kids, don’t complain about small towns dying. When YOU live on an unpaved road with a houseful of children, THEN you’ll have whining rights
Some people are just too good at complaining about problems they are unwilling to solve. .
You are 100% right!
According to a Mason-Dixon poll conducted earlier this month, 49% of those polled oppose this hyped-up tax shift, and only 33% approve (4.5% margin of error). I don’t think I would hang my cowboy hat on a tax plan that only a third of the population supports. That kind of out-of-touch governing gets people voted out of office (or appointed to a federal cabinet position)…
This is not a tax increase. Do you understand that the increase was decided about 5 years ago? If the legislature votes to lower taxes by .3% and it ‘sunsets’ in 5 years, it comes back up to where it was those 5 years later. This was the year it sunsets and goes back up by .3%. It was automatic. It was not a new increase in taxes by Rhoden. The legislature could have voted to keep it lower but that didn’t happen.
I equate Rhodens tax message to peeing on your leg and telling you it’s raining.
“We set out to shift the burden from one group to another and no one thought we could do it, but by God we got it done. I don’t need some DC politician pointing out facts.”
Yep three tenths of a penny really hurts. Dusty was for it before he was against it,
A lot of people whining, but offering zero solutions. That is a loser move. Out of all the summer studying, one idea made it through.
The same people crying about property tax have shifted to “affordability” which is far more impacted by national/world economics than state.
This is not a tax increase. Do you understand that the increase was decided about 5 years ago? If the legislature votes to lower taxes by .3% and it ‘sunsets’ in 5 years, it comes back up to where it was those 5 years later. This was the year it sunsets and goes back up by .3%. It was automatic. It was not a new increase in taxes by Rhoden. The legislature could have voted to keep it lower but that didn’t happen.
*But keep a record of your property taxes this year and compare them to next year’s taxes. They will be less!
All of you whining about poor Larry… buck up. Where is his accountability? He clearly can’t win and all he is doing is splitting the vote. That’s not leadership, it’s putting himself first.
This is the future of our state we are talking about. Our kids future… the well being of actual PEOPLE depends on the Governor and a good legislature.
Dusty needs to do whatever it takes to win for the sake of our state. If that means Larry takes a few hits, so be it. He signed up for it. You all need to get thicker skin. And so does Larry.
All praise be to Saint Dusty, our Lord and Savior!
Larry has done a fantastic job as governor! Nobody thought he could get the prison started but what he did worked to now make it happen. He is one of the most, if not THE most transparent governor we’ve had. He talks to people rather than sitting in an office all day. He accomplished everything he set out to do in a very short time. I feel he is the best man for the job and shudder at the thought of any of the other three being governor.
GOVERNOR RHODEN.
BUILT TO (be dead) LAST
Unless you are reducing government spending, it is not a cut. There was no reduction in government spending. It was a tax shift.
Dead on. I’m sorry, but Rhoden and Hansen are wrong and Dusty is right. This is NOT a tax cut. It’s a tax shift.
Just repeating the words “tax cut” over and over doesn’t make it true.