In large part, the 2019 North Dakota Legislature isn’t in favor of significantly reducing the size of government and cutting — or even eliminating — certain taxes. In fact, both the House and Senate passed bills out of their chambers [read more…]
In November of last year, we published an article showing that North Dakota’s ethanol subsidies might be unconstitutional. I encourage you to read it for background information. In support of our position, we included a response in that article from [read more…]
In November of last year, we published an article detailing the argument that North Dakota’s ethanol subsidies may be unconstitutional. The question arose while reviewing the minutes from the interim Government Finance Committee’s meeting on August 2, 2017. In that [read more…]
It was reported today that North Dakota’s Governor Doug Burgum has instructed state agencies to craft smaller budgets for the upcoming 2019-2021 biennium. In a nutshell, agencies with remaining appropriations of less than $5 million are being asked to cut [read more…]
There’s plenty of examples of wasteful spending here at home with the North Dakota Legislature. Whether it’s the large amount of dollars going towards the sacred cows known as Health & Human Services and K-12 , the likely unconstitutional ethanol [read more…]
Ethanol and ethanol subsidies are often found as a subject of debate in political and agricultural circles. Those who support ethanol subsidies have historically looked at them as a means of gaining “energy independence” and reducing “greenhouse gas emissions”. Those [read more…]
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