A petition drive that would ask South Dakota voters next November to increase the state sales tax by one cent should soon be on the street. The Attorney General and Secretary of State have signed off on the legal formalities. The drive is being organized by education and medical groups, concerned about the effects of budget cuts by the legislature. Dave Hewitt, President of the South Dakota Association of Health Care Organizations says they are confident they will get the sixteen thousand signatures they need…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/09/Dave-Hewitt-905.mp3|titles=Dave Hewitt 905]Hewitt says backers of the drive want to split the money equally between education and health care…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/09/hewit2.mp3|titles=hewit2]Another penny sales tax would raise about one hundred seventy five million dollars a year. Hewitt says the new penny tax would help set a funding foundation for health care and education…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/09/hewit3.mp3|titles=hewit3]The petition signatures need to be turned in by November first.