Started hearing last weekend that Julie Frye Mueller is talking about proposing a new tax in South Dakota. (Instantly my correspondent hoped it wasn’t a lactation tax).
And apparently there is a now a flyer out there about JFM wanting to talk about how she wants to create new and un-thought out taxes.
“Property Taxes are Property Theft.” Well, that sounds stable. It seems like a flyer you might see at a militia meeting rather than coming from a State Senator. Not that we see a disclaimer either.
It had been mentioned to me that at a recent forum she was talking about a half-baked idea for a receipt tax, which I don’t know that anyone has ever heard of before, but involves paying money every time you buy something, regardless of cost.
Want a $.30 pack of gum? Pay a dollar. Want a $1200 smoker? Pay a dollar. Who came up with this looney idea that it could cost you a dollar anytime you do something?
Considering every level of government in South Dakota below the state – County, city, school, etc. – is based on the taxation of property, this goofball concept has more in common with the Democrat’s dreaded personal property tax where we would get taxed on lawnmowers and stereos, and eventually took Republicans getting elected to do away with it. And even though we had that for a while, we still had property taxes.
Just reminds me that the political spectrum is a lot like a circle. And some people are so far-right they’re on the left-handed side of things.
Does she win this? I mean Goodwin was a 4 tern legislator and didn’t get it done.
This is just another feckless and feeble attempt that has no traction whatsoever. It’s just a way for JFM to once again cry “I tried to lower your taxes but the mean people in Pierre wouldn’t let me…but still vote for me”. An obvious pandering to the current wave of property tax frustration with draconian ideas that will never see the light of day.
….Your freedom depends on it.
This is what happens when the completely brain dead advertise to other completely braind dead people. All they know is fear. Everything terrifies these people.
Let’s return the wealthy tax rates back to what it was in the 50s and the entire working class would see a break. How about that?
I have heard of ‘deadbeat dads’ , now are there ‘deadbeat taxpayers’?
Ya, their names are Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Musk.
It’s almost like these people supporting the wealthy want to return us to the time of the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. We don’t need to work for the bezos, and the musks, and the gates. They will do just fine if they have to pay their fair share.
The receipt tax is going up. She started at a nickel, it creeped up to a quarter and last I heard was 2 quarters. Bidenflation can’t even keep up with how fast this tax is going up.
I heard it was at $1.25 at a forum. Half-baked JFM idea is already out of control. Who would have thunk?
One thing the property taxes help with are keeping the big corporations from coming in and turning the state to a rental society. I think the tax burden sometimes deters them, but it will only be a matter of time before that is just factored in. I do feel bad for the retired class (most of the hills folks), they keep having to pay more for something they own.
Of course, this could all be helped by spending less, but come on, not in today’s MAGA GOP controlled SD. We must have government involved in every decision of your life, and you can pay for it and be happy!
Interesting that JFM & Pischke were the only Senate votes against HB 1090 that requires counties to return any excess proceeds from a tax deed sale to the owner of record. This is after the US Supreme Court had already ruled that it is unconstitutional for the county to keep your equity as well as taxes due and selling expenses.
BTW, Citizens for Liberty supported JFM & Pischke by grading it on their scorecard saying they were correct and the rest of the Senate was wrong to give you your equity back. They also dinged all Representatives except Phil Jensen and two Democrats who also voted against your best interests.