I suppose that’s one way to do it. That is, if you’re a complete lunatic.
Senator California Carley and Representative Dylan “DJ Jazzy” Jordan, who are two of the worst legislators in Pierre are going to add another bill to their tally that won’t pass. They have proposed Senate Bill 58, An Act to reduce to zero mill levies for property taxation.
The effect would be to immediately eliminate all property taxes, and make the schools and counties dependent on state funding. Literally. It’s in the first sentences of the measure:
Section 1. That a NEW SECTION be added to chapter 4-7:
The Bureau of Finance and Management shall recommend to the Joint Committee on Appropriations an amount to be appropriated each year to be transferred to political subdivisions of this state for their necessary expenditures.
The measure is literally to render these political subdivisions unable to raise revenues of their own, short of the wheel tax. Counties? No property tax authority for you. Schools? You will get what the state gives you and you’ll like it. Don’t even talk about towns and townships.
It’s like these tax and spenders are trying to completely drive South Dakota to an income tax. Which might be great for the out of state landowners like Ted Turner (the largest private landowner in the state). But, ends up dumping the burden completely on residents.
Unless there’s a plan for replacing the revenue they want to take away from government, this is just a plan of silliness.
The Republican Party used to be oriented towards growth and prosperity to help alleviate the tax burden. But anymore it seems like there are too many people who would be happy to just take a sledgehammer to the economy, just to keep things how they imagine them being in the 1950’s.
God help us all.
right on brand.
I pray this session is the last time we see either of these two names.
Emperor Doeden : “The time has come Execute SB 58. So i don’t have to pay any property taxes on my vast business empire”
They are drafting a bill from the example of the State GOP party. The democratic leader of the state GOP said he doesn’t need financial support to complete the goals.
This is bizzarro world.
There is an Excellant candidate running against California Carly, let’s vote him out of office.
Look at that, Carl Perry signed on! No surprise there, but do you think he even bothered to read the bill or knows what he signed on to first?
No, he chickened out and already removed his name. Spineless Carl is in full jellyfish mode, and the session hasn’t even started yet!