Thanks for the extra tax on your food Mrs. Smith, it helps pay for the next Cher concert in Sux Falls.
There were several parts of this article I could pick apart and bitch about, but it’s a Sunday, and I don’t have the patience or the time, I will, however comment on this part;
The city would need a new funding source – probably through an increase in the local sales tax, which is at 2 percent. That would take legislative approval in Pierre.
Even if my whiny little ass was on street corners, 24/7 before the this tax increase vote telling people this tax increase is ‘stupid’, it would not matter. It is stupid. And common sense will tell people that. I can’t believe that these supposed ‘city leaders’ came up with this option to fund the EC. Voters will shoot it down. A bed and booze tax is the best way to fund this place, not an increase on food and utility taxes to people who will never use this facility.
I do support a new EC, but don’t I don’t think making the people who will never benefit from it, pay for it.
The EC Task Force needs to grow a brain, seriously.