Yvonne Taylor, Executive Director of the South Dakota Municipal League addressed the SF City council at the informational meeting on Monday. She said some interesting things. She was questioned about code enforcement, and she said (paraphrasing);
“You have to be careful about property rights.”
Yeah, NO shit?! Then she switched gears on the food tax, she seemed to support it because it was a ‘consistent’ revenue source and went on to say that the people that ‘can afford it’ don’t have a problem with paying it, and we need to get more help to the less fortunate.
Here’s the deal. Damn right the well-to-do support it! It makes poor people pay taxes while the rich skirt income taxes. It has already been proven that our state would be much better off if we had an income tax for people who made over $30,000 a year and eliminated sales taxes. We could probably even get rid of that disease called Video Lottery.
We know who runs South Dakota. Rich Republicans. I would love to throw tomatoes, if I could afford them.