Corruption in South Dakota continues as a Minnesota corporation gets an $8 million dollar tax cut in the name of building South Dakota

Here is the latest corporate handout from South Dakota taxpayers:

A Minnesota utility won approval Tuesday for one of the largest economic incentives ever made by a South Dakota state government agency.

The South Dakota Board of Economic Development awarded a reinvestment payment up to $8,187,266 to Northern States Power Company, also known as Xcel Energy.

The money comes from Building South Dakota. The Legislature created it in 2013.

The payment is for wind-farm development in Grant and Codington counties in the northeastern region.

Building South Dakota has a variety of separate programs intended to accelerate growth of businesses and communities.

One of the programs is the reinvestment payment.

The payment is available for projects that cost more than $20 million or more than $2 million for equipment.

 The purpose is to offset some of the state sales tax, use tax and contractors excise tax paid for construction of a project.

State board members decided Tuesday that Northern States Power could receive up to 65 percent of sales and use taxes the company paid to South Dakota state government on the wind project.

The board met by teleconference, as it does most times each year. The members discussed various agenda items in an executive session closed to the public. They voted in open session but nobody made any substantial comments about the actions.

Interesting how the crony capitalists spend our money in secret. In fact the legislation to create the fund was done in secret back in 2013. SB 235 passed the Senate as a vehicle bill, and then the accrual legislation was added by an amendment during a House committee hearing. Here is more on the history:

Mercer points to the 12 true conservative Republicans who voted against SB235 and the one Democrat who could not be bought off by the SDGOP Crony Capitalist RINOS:

The vote in the House today was 56-13. Twelve of the “no” votes came from Republicans: Blaine Campbell of Rapid City, Scott Craig of Rapid City, Brock Greenfield of Clark, Stace Nelson of Fulton, Lance Russell of Hot Springs, Dan Kaiser of Aberdeen, Don Kopp of Rapid City, Jim Stalzer of Sioux Falls, Jenna Haggar of Sioux Falls, Isaac Latterell of Tea, Elizabeth May of Kyle and Betty Olson of Prairie City. The one Democrat to vote no was Marc Feinstein of Sioux Falls.

Yes the Democrats are crony capitalists too, as it is a form of socialism. When you have increases in funding education (actually indoctrination into creating a worldwide socialist federation that Bill Gates of Microsoft and other corporations provide service too), welfare housing (so construction corporations receive corporate welfare to build the housing), and economic development centered on Obama's Agenda 21 green energy (most of the big projects that SB235 will benefit is wind energy), while excluding oil pipelines...all various things that SB235 does. Stace Nelson was correct to challenge this issue on fhte House floor. The argument is also supported by the variety of special interest proponents to SB235 who testified on a bill that the rest of us taxpayers had no idea what the content was when it hit House State Affairs committee (Red for GOP special interest, blue for Democrat, black for both):

        Bob Sahr, East River Electric
        David Owen, SD Chamber of Commerce and Industry
        Dick Tieszen, Technical Institutes
        Bob O'Connell, Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce
        Wade Pogany, Associated School Boards of SD
        Kitty Kinsman, Rapid City Area Chamber of Commerce (Handout: #1)
        Robert Monson, School Administrators of South Dakota
        Darla Pollman Rogers, SD Rural Electric Association
        Sandra Waltman, SD Education Association
        Mitch Richter, SD United Schools Association
        Steve Willard, SD Electric Utilities
        Deb Mortenson, Associated General Contractors of SD
        Brett Koenecke, Iberdrola Renewables, Inc
        Bill Van Camp, Nextera Energy Resources
        Shawn Lyons, SD Retailers Association
        Matt Krogman, Brookings Economic Development, Corporation
        Bob Riter, SD Manufactured Housing Association
        Dick Howard, SD Association of Towns and Townships
        Julie Johnson, Absolutely Aberdeen

How did all these special interest know enough about the bill to testify in support, while the rest of us had not been given the bill's content. When you have the collectivist agenda of both the fascist GOP and the socialist Democrats coming together in a multi-faceted bill, the individual normally takes the hit.

I concluded the March 2013 post with this:

This is an example that demonstrates how the South Dakota legislature is no longer representing the people, but instead has become as a rubber stamp to implement the agenda of a shadow government run by the corporatists. With the media being part of the corporate world, don't expect them to tell the people what is really going on in Pierre. And for those of us who learn and become out spoken, the corporatists will look for ways to retaliate. For the mainstream media, that means your advertising revenues will take a hit.

The $8 million tax break to a Minnesota corporation was approved by South Dakota legislature under protest for be unconstitutional. The legislation was negotiated behind closed doors, and now the money is being spent with discussions behind closed doors. Instead of this money being used to fix our roads and pay our teachers, the liberal partnership of liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats voted to increase our sales taxes and increase our taxes when we go to buy and/or license our cars. In 2013. I explained how the liberals so-called building South Dakota is actually taking South Dakota down the road to serfdom:

And in regard to SB235, that also includes the Democrats. The common mindset is a collectivist one in which the State is the  god who is to provide everything, including jobs...all in the name of economic development. And with SB235 that includes special funding for illegal immigrants, who don't speak English, governemnt subsidized housing, and forced taxes at the local level to help fund the roads needed by the monopolistic corporatists to transport their materials and goods.

Flynn's "road ahead" was described by FA Hayek as the Road to Serdom, which also was published in the 1940s. This book review explains his point:

Having grown up and lived in Austria during World War I and later moving to Great Britain, Hayek was particularly frustrated when he saw Britain and the United States making the same mistakes of the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Hayek argues that collectivism eventually leads to tyranny. Central economic planning gives too much power to the government, which essentially puts that power in the hands of a small group rather than in each individual.

And that small group economic central planners is the governor's Board of Economic Development (so-called). It is clear that SB235 is about central planning of the economy and is a violation of free markets and thereby this South Dakota Republican plank:

1.2 The South Dakota Republican Party supports free, fair and competitive markets, both domestic and foreign, for all agriculture products. We support allowing agricultural producers to use any and all business opportunities available. We believe free, fair and competitive markets are best for both the producer and the consumer.

So then anybody with half a brain should understand that SB235 is bad for both the producer and the consumer, unless you are a producer with insider status to that "small group" of "central planners". Since they control the jobs, anybody who is too out spoken against their agenda may find themselves without a job or for small businesses who can't compete with this monopolistic system, they may suffer loss in business. And those small players who survive will be forced to agree to low prices when they supply big business with goods and services. This is not economic development, these is economic undevelopment as evidenced by over $16 trillion in federal debt that has been used to support this inefficient system over the last several decades. 

Hayek was right, collectivism leads to tyranny...Soviet style. All we need to do is understand history, not the propaganda that is found in our school's history textbooks. The Republicans crony capitalism and the Democrats Marxist indoctrination they call public education does work hand in hand. They call it workforce development, which is actually a system to train the serfs so the corporatists can take advantage. SB235 is proof.

I have been banned from making comments at Cory Heidelberger's web site for making the argument that the establishments of both parties are actually working together. Cory calls it a false equivalency, but he will support crony capitalism when it funds things like green energy.  What Cory is preaching is false equality. More on that later as I demonstrate how the liberal Democrats and the liberal Republicans are working together to implement Sharia Law in South Dakota under the guise of workforce development. The George Soros funded deal involves money for Democrats and cheap labor for Republicans.

Comments

[SD expat]

South Dakota is doomed, Sibby. Save that last bullet for yourself, lil buddy.

[KM]

Well researched. Seems many Establishment members are being outed these days;) Hear that flushing sound, it's the swamp draining.

I'd prefer my tax dollars support SD communities and the people working to make them great too. Seems we the people are no longer allowed to be involved with the process, but that's not anything new.

Special interest groups were the only ones to speak on this. Isn't that stacking the deck? Why should we be surprised, a tactic used over and over to silence others.

"More on that later..." Great, thanks.

[larry kurtz]

South Dakota is a chemical toilet where disease and a culture of corruption are celebrated as economic development.

That Sibby represents the extreme wrong wing of his earth hater party comes as little surprise.

[larry kurtz]

Check out this morning's red state failure roundup!

https://southdakotaprogressive.blogspot.com/

[larry kurtz]

Hey, Sibby: you have a twitter account. Search for South Dakota there to see how the state is buying shares in Union Pacific, Monsanto and more.

Here's my take:

https://southdakotaprogressive.blogspot.com/2017/11/south-dakota-investment-council-buying.html