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Letter: Food sales tax cut would have helped taxpayers more

Apr 16, 2023
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The recent news story in the Sioux Falls media on the impact of the Legislature’s 0.3 percentage point sales tax cut estimated an annual saving of $127 for a median-income household. It seems like a meager sum for such a highly touted tax cut. But I think even $127 is overly optimistic. That would take sales-taxable spending averaging $3,527 a month. Ho…

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