While I am willing to listen, and am all for property tax cuts or at least making them manageable, the legislature will probably find a reach around with opt-outs. Once again, if the citizens need changes in tax policy they have to do it themselves because the idiot convention in Pierre ain’t cutting it;
There’s a simpler solution. Just raise the State’s take from video lottery. Personally, I hate VL, but it’s here to stay. So, as long as it is here, we should increase the take and use it directly to offset property tax increases. Janklow did this back in ’95 when he increased the State’s take at the time from 33% to 50% and it’s time to now increase it to 65%. This increase won’t hurt the video lottery industry, or any VL mom and pa operations, because the balk of these operations have been cashing in on this enterprise since 1989 and are all well position to take this revenue cut without any serious consequences.