After 50 Years of Business Incentives for Economic Development, Where’s All the Money?

After 50 Years of Business Incentives for Economic Development, Where’s All the Money?

The traditional Mickelson/Janklow wing of the Republican Party has been fretting that the radical rightwingers it emboldened with its tolerance of the Tea Party and Trump are reneging on the promise of “economic development” on which the ruling class has banked South Dakota’s fortunes since the gubernatoriats of BIll Janklow (Citibank, trusts) and George Mickelson (Future Fund, REDI Fund). Mickelson’s whole thesis was that if we give businesses …