The South Dakota Senate has rejected a measure that would have repealed the state sales tax on food. District 18’s Ryan Cwach says Representatives had worked together Monday to get the bill approved in the House.
However the measure got little traction in the Senate as chamber leader Lee Schoenbeck called the bill “a bleeder” and said it had to “die,” which it did 22-9. The measure had passed the house on Monday 47-22. South Dakota is one of only three states in the union to tax food.
