An effort by South Dakota legislators to repeal the sales tax on food was killed in committee today. The bill was sponsored by Representative Ray Ring of Vermillion, and heard in the House Taxation Committee today (Thursday).
He says the theory of everybody paying a little doesn’t apply to poor people and the sales tax.
Ring says his bill, that would have been revenue neutral, would have decreased the volatile nature of the sales tax.
Representative Mary Duvall of Pierre said it is the wrong approach for those that want to address hunger.
The committee voted to send the bill to the forty first legislative day, effectively killing it.
