11/17/17

Small businesses are fleeing South Dakota

Red state failure is overtaking small businesses in South Dakota.
For the second time this year three small towns in southeastern South Dakota could be losing their grocery stores. The Cash Smart stores in Scotland, Tyndall, and Tripp are all under the same ownership. The new owner took them over in March when the family running them unexpectedly closed up shop. But if sales don't increase by the end of the year, he will close the stores.
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David Owen, cannabis alarmist, president and chief lobbyist of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce & Industry just gave the legislature its marching orders.
In addition to tight budgeting, Owen said the session may also end up tackling the state’s ongoing workforce shortage. "Immigration and refugees are a valuable potential asset to our workforce issues," Owen said. "This is going to be cast, I think, in more economic terms."
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Some of the most unsettling xenophobia and barricades to diversity in South Dakota come from a small white christofascist clique operating at the fringes of the South Dakota Republican Party.

Despite efforts to tax out of state businesses Marty Jackley's defense of an e-tax is doomed.

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