POLL: South Dakotans Support Grocery Tax Cut

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POLL: South Dakotans Support Grocery Tax Cut

PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA – Today, Governor Kristi Noem released polling data indicating that South Dakotans strongly prefer the elimination of the grocery sales tax to other potential tax cut options.

A memo summarizing the poll results is attached. The poll was conducted by Front Porch Strategies on behalf of South Dakota Strong Leadership PAC.

Front Porch Strategies released a memo on the results, which is attached. Key results include:

  • 75% of South Dakotans support eliminating the sales tax on groceries, with 50% being very supportive.
  • 93% of South Dakotans have been significantly impacted by rising inflation.
  • 95% of South Dakotans say their grocery bill is more expensive than it was in 2020, with 82% saying their grocery bill has increased by over $50.
  • When informed of the pros and cons of different tax cut proposals, 58% prefer eliminating the grocery tax, 29% prefer reducing property taxes, and 3% prefer reducing the overall sales tax rate.

South Dakotans across the political spectrum and from every walk of life overwhelmingly support eliminating the sales tax on groceries, including:

  • 75% of Republicans;
  • 76% of Democrats;
  • More than 70% of every income breakdown;
  • More than 70% of both genders; and,
  • More than 70% of every age bracket.

Kristi Noem Grocery Tax Polling Memo by Pat Powers on Scribd

15 thoughts on “POLL: South Dakotans Support Grocery Tax Cut”

    1. Say what? The SD GOP has never wanted to cut grocery sales tax, or they will figure out where to increase somewhere else like property tax.

  2. For Noem it’s all about the win and the press that goes with it. It’s not about whether it’s prudent budgeting or good policy. Of course when you poll and ask most people if they want free money, they will say yes. Doesn’t make it the right decision. We have nursing homes closing and prison problems and meth problems. The first downstroke in the economy and then what – a tax increase or across the board cuts? She won’t care – she’ll be down the road by then.

    1. What? Kristi cares about the people of SD, not getting national press coverage. She cares about those struggling to make ends meet, not a CATO institute score card. She’s having a great legislative session, just you wait and see.

  3. Property tax is more crushing. We are getting taxed out of our homes. What good is paying less for food when we are living on the streets?

    1. If you can’t afford your home’s property tax you’re living beyond your means.

      Clearly you are part of the reason why adult financial literacy classes need to exist.

      1. You are not taxed on your home, but the assessed value of the land of which your home sits on, and if counties and cities are continuing to manufacture land values by constantly re-assessing the value of the land, evaluating its stated value to the community of which it lies, by means of constantly changing zoning codes. The low income people keep getting pushed further to the curb, in place of high valued commercial property within the commercialized zones, big cities

        How many times have you all attended county commission meetings, or city council meetings only to witness the re-zoning of land in your political subdivisions, they constantly do it always, to maximize the amount of property taxes they can collect, and knowing that school districts get nearly 60% of the property tax dollars for education, that leaves 40% left between counties and cities. Counties need the money to maintain a strong public health, safety, and welfare system of their residents, and cities are manipulating the zoning assessments to create more dollars for economic and community development.

        We have gone from that separation of residential vs commercial zones, to now we get these expensive mixed-use zones which lead to high cost of rent, which keep wages low, and property values high, which hurt the low income and middle class families the hardest.

        The property tax in South Dakota has to remain as high as possible to sustain the amount of Tax Increment Financing being given back to the property holders who do invest in developing their land in the name of economic development, that you over night, manufacture higher than normal property taxes in those huge economic centers of the state.

        1. Then it is a county problem. Your house is in the wrong county, and you need to move. That is the message your county is sending you, your property is worth more as a commercial district. It’s time to move.

  4. This is like Rehfeldts bill on abortion. On some level a little giving needs to happen or the ballot measure will be extreme.

  5. anonymous at 7:35 is correct. If you can’t afford the property tax on your home, you bought too much house.
    The people who really can’t afford housing are living in subsidized apartments. They are the most in need of assistance, and cutting the grocery tax will help.

      1. the people running the food banks, etc, are seeing a lot more people having trouble affording food. Cutting the food tax will help, as it will even make it more affordable for the people who donate to those food banks. It doesn’t sound like much, but if it allows each person to pick up an extra can of soup to donate to a food bank every week, that would make a big difference to the charities which run those things.

  6. Lower taxes are good .. must have made a deal with the counties.

    Side note – South Dakota’s bureaucracy is overly complex and stunningly out of control.

    1. Yeah, and 5G and wind turbines cause cancer. I’d love to see your list of state government services you’d like to see eliminated.

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