SDWC Poll – Do you support an increase in the Sales Tax?

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I was just speaking with a member of the appropriations committee today, discussing legislation and the state budget, when they brought up a point on trying to formulate the budget, and how a monkey wrench could be coming coming up with the cash to pay for K-12 Education, etcetera.

Governor Daugaard has noted that any Medicaid expansion is going to have to come from existing funds, but that’s going to put a lot of pressure on appropriators to come up with “existing funds.” But what about those other areas? Some legislators are talking about raising the sales tax for education, and Representative May has her name as prime sponsor on a committee bill that has been introduced to allow counties to add to their coffers through sales tax.

You can introduce anything, but the question is going to be whether it will pass. And will your constituents burn you in effigy for it? So, to informally put our finger in the air, you can vote in this years’ last SDWC poll, and let us know – Do you support an increase in the Sales Tax?


22 thoughts on “SDWC Poll – Do you support an increase in the Sales Tax?”

  3. Money will come from the fed what are you worried about allowing some one to get medical care.Yes increase the sales tax and take it off food to help the poor unbelievable this Gov only think about his buddies.

    1. Yes the money will come from the federal government, which will get it by raising taxes on everybody who pays federal taxes. It’s free money!!!

      Hey somehow I missed the part about how tribal members aren’t allowed to enroll in Medicaid now, if they qualify. Like IHS is mandatory for them, you know?

    2. And where does the Federal government get the money? Does it grow on magic money trees? What happens when the Feds say that the States will have to start picking up more of the cost? It’s like Bernie the socialist’s “free” college plan; somebody has to pay for it unless all the leftwing/socialist/elitist professors in public universities agree to a massive pay cut.

  4. The poor do not pay sales tax on food. No sales tax is collected on items bought with food stamps, and the last I recall, under the federal guidelines, a family of four could qualify for some food stamps while making $42,000. I know Minnesota doesn’t charge a sales tax on food, but they charge more taxes/fees on so many other things that the poorest 20% actually pay a higher % of their income into their state/local governments than we do in SD.

    Don’t raise the sales tax and don’t take it off of food.

    1. At one time, there was a program to get a rebate on your sales taxes paid on food. Did that go away or is it still in effect?

  5. If education wants more money, then it had better first justify the amounts spend on administration, athletics, and new buildings.

    If counties need more money for infrastructure, aren’t they already getting that with the mandatory increase in wheel tax?

    I love “whats not’s” argument that just let the feds pay for it! Where does he think the feds get their money – from the sky, or more likely from Obama’s “stash.” I love the liberals belief that there is actually everything everywhere.

    By the time the poor receive all their subsidized housing, health care, daycare, etc and their Earned Income Tax Credit (even though they pay nothing in income tax), they come out ahead of the rest of us taxpayers in the tax arena.

    1. I think everyone who actually thinks about it will respond the same to WN’s simplistic and silly statement that the Federal government will just pay for it. I agree with the responsive posts thus far.

  6. Correction: I love the liberals belief that there is actually FRED everything everywhere. (I forgot the key word here)

      1. It is free to most liberals. They don’t work; consequently, they don’t care. It’s just another Obamaphone freebie to them.

        1. Well there you go again. The Lifeline phone program started under the Reagan administration. Shouldn’t it be called a Reaganphone?

    1. If you meant me, I like your reasoning about not working and being a liberal! But…I’m a happily retired conservative.

      1. No, it was directed at Spencer. Yes, I imagined you were a retired conservative … who remains stuck in a wet paper bag. Retired, collecting Social Security and on Medicare. And you’re a conservative. Yep, that seems about right.

        1. Yep, I’m retired. And I earned that retirement. I paid into Social Security my entire life; and now I am collecting a small amount back every month of the money I paid in. At least that’s the way the system is supposed to work, isn’t it? I realize that the SS fund has been raided and has a zero balance, but so far the feds aren’t renigging on their promise to return MY money to ME! And I paid into Medicare too by the way. Of course, if Bush’s plan to privatize part of the SS monies contributed some years ago had come about, my pension from SS and the private sector would be considerably higher. But of course we can’t allow people to fund their own retirement, it should be left to the omnipotent and all-wise government, right? (sarcasm here)

          1. Of course you earned your retirement. Everyone does, duh. I just get a good laugh at your superfluous comments. You don’t like welfare. You’ve made that clear. But what will you think if you end up in a nursing home and can’t afford the $7,000.00+ monthly bill? You’d have to rely on Medicaid. Oh my!

  8. Wrong have great pension, from a company who makes about 4 billion ayear.Those unions how can I sleep at night.Working love you republicans.Tell photo op and EB5 Mike that I need a farm subsidy which you republicans love.

  9. Free Money? Really?

    There is no such thing as ‘Free Money.’ Money had to come from someone, somewhere, which means it had to cost someone something. I wonder how they feel about all this ‘Free Money’ that is just being handed out like candy

    Yes. Teachers need to be paid more. However the state doesn’t pay them, the state doesn’t set the terms of how they are to be paid. That is all handled by the local school boards, as it should be.

    Before the state raises taxes to pay teachers, or fund education it has to look at other ways to ease the financial burden that is placed on school boards.

    -setting up a central database for E-textbooks
    -setting up a distance learning program so school districts can share teachers
    -use the prison system to grow food for school lunches
    -consolidate services with other government entities.

    And the list can go on and on. Let’s get this all done before raiding the pocket books the cititzens.

    If (and that is a big ‘if’) I would wan to make sure that all the money get to where it is suppose to go.

    1. I know there was something about treating prisoners as slaves.
      I would compare this type of program similar to the the Governor’s house program.

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