While the US Congress and the White House wrestle with the debt ceiling negotiations, stagflation has arrived, unemployment stands at nearly 10 percent and the US is engaged in armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, South Dakota Democrats are hard at work.
What are they doing? They have drafted an initiated ballot measure to be placed on the 2012 ballot to INCREASE TAXES.
Undeterred by the defeat of even a “temporary sales tax” (no such animal exists) in the most recent SD legislative sessions, Moving South Dakota Forward has drafted an initiated measure that has already been reviewed by the Legislative Research Council.
Moving South Dakota Forward was organized by Dave Hewett and Bryce Healy, lobbyists for the state’s health care and school board lobbying groups.
The measure would increase the SD sales tax from 4 to 5 percent and the revenue would be distributed to education and Medicaid providers.
Even Obama, Reid and Pelosi have abandoned their quest to increase taxes in the face of our exploding debt crisis. I guess that word hasn’t reached our Democrat South Dakotans yet.
