Gov. Noem: “Temporary tax cut will hurt our families and businesses”

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Gov. Noem: “Temporary tax cut will hurt our families and businesses”

PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem asked legislators to support a permanent tax cut. Governor Noem thanked the people of South Dakota for turning challenges into opportunities – and she advocated for the tax cut that the people of South Dakota overwhelmingly want: the grocery sales tax cut. You can watch Governor Noem’s video here.

“I want to help every single person who lives here in our great state. [The grocery sales tax cut] is the fairest tax cut for all people,” Governor Noem said in the video. “It doesn’t decide who gets a tax cut and who doesn’t – because everyone who lives here eats: the single mom trying to put food on the table, the senior citizens living on fixed incomes, the family where both parents have to work to make ends meet with rising record inflation nationwide. Overwhelmingly, the people of South Dakota want this tax eliminated.”

Eliminating the grocery sales tax is overwhelmingly supported by the people of South Dakota. A recent poll found that 58% of South Dakotans prefer this tax cut to other options. But last week, the House of Representatives opted to instead reduce the overall sales tax rate by 30 cents for every $100 spent.

“If the legislature pursues a temporary tax cut and instead embraces a spending spree, it will hurt our families and our businesses,” continued Governor Noem.

Yesterday, the Senate Tax Committee put a 2-year sunset on that tax cut because they know that the people will support repealing the sales tax on groceries in the near future. Legislators should be giving the people of South Dakota what they want now instead of thinking they know better how to spend someone else’s money.

“As we go into the last two week of legislative session, my hope is that policy makers remember they work for the people and will be accountable to the people,” continued Governor Noem. “They will present me a budget soon, and I will decide if it is worthy of my signature or not. I have proved in the past that I am willing to make hard decisions – and I will again, especially if it is something that respects our Constitution and the will of the people.”

South Dakota can afford eliminating the sales tax on groceries because of our permanent economic growth. Our businesses are growing and expanding quicker than ever before, incomes are going up faster here than in almost any state, we have the lowest unemployment rate in South Dakota history, and our population is growing at 5 times the national average.

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7 thoughts on “Gov. Noem: “Temporary tax cut will hurt our families and businesses””

  1. Cold, calculated, and everything she wanted all the time.

    During the campaign, she appeared to care for families impacted by taxes on groceries. She departed from Republican tax policy in an attempt to make herself appear to be a caring person. Then, she continues to press for tax cuts at the beginning of Session, knowing full well that it’s too heavy a lift for any legislature to adopt. Now, when the legislature gives her a compromise that accomplishes the only fiscally responsible option, she retracts the entire deal. Her claim that this is not enough is yet another in a long string of disengenuous promises that she never intends to fulfill. Sounds like Lucy and the football, Charlie Brown?

    Now, she gets the platform to blast her own party for not giving her what she wants. Looks like she’s using her buddy, Kari Lake’s camera filter to make her more human perhaps?

    So, Republican legislators, how do you feel being thrown under the bus time after time?

    1. My recollection is that various members of the legislature called her out on the GTC as did her opponent in the election.

      Governor Noem responded.

      The legislature failed to perform.

      It doesn’t matter why.

      South Dakota families continue to shoulder the over taxation while massive sprawling government bureaucracy has come to typify and dominate South Dakota civic, rural, and private life.

  4. It’s pretty rich her saying she knows what the people want when she can’t even do a local press conference while the legislators are doing crackerbarrels and going home and talking to people. Legislators know eliminating the food tax is far too risky. It’s not the amount that’s the problem it’s the stability of it. She knows that because that’s what she supported many times in the past. The only thing that has changed is her politics!

  6. i don’t know why anyone is surprised by these reversals and tactics. when in doubt, leave things alone.

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