Revenue crisis highlighting red state failure

South Dakota's beleaguered autocrat, Governor Denny Daugaard is admitting revenues are in the shitter.

There is a crisis looming in South Dakota. We’re writing about the basic services that we quite often take for granted such as maintenance of county highways and bridges, the operation of the local jail, enforcement of court orders, tracking property ownership, paying for indigent health care and prosecuting crimes. Does this mean raising taxes? Maybe.

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Facing a hidden bill from the State of South Dakota the City of Lead will have to borrow money to pay for a Main Street improvement.

The more than $148,000 payment to the state, now required from the city, is referred to as a bid differential, which describes the difference between what the DOT would have paid if it had payment responsibility for the entire project itself, and the amount it actually paid for the joint state/city project. The bill finally arrived on Oct. 4, with a payment due date of Oct. 5.

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How sixty five county seats and their bureaucracies are either conservative or sustainable remains a mystery.