North Dakota’s Governor, Jack Dalrymple In a few short days, the North Dakota legislature heads back into session. Expected to take center stage are several key funding issues recently made more crucial by the continued decline in oil prices First is an initiative by GOP members that would effectively wipe out the state income tax. A new bill that is expected to be introduced early in the session will reduce the income tax rate to zero. This is a counter to Gov Dalrymple’s proposal for a 10% decrease in personal and corporate income tax that was made in an effort to draw more people to the region. This issue is highly contested since there is great concern over the potential lost revenue due to plummeting oil prices. North Dakota’s state funding is tightly tied to taxes on oil and gas production and was responsible for more than half the state’s […]