🚒 Supporting First Responders

🏛️ SEAL SD Ensures Safety Funding

At SealSD.com, we’re committed to ensuring the Core GRT Plan—the Maximum Liberty Plan—prioritizes the safety of South Dakotans. This plan replaces all state taxes with a single 5% Gross Receipts Tax (GRT), generating $3.6 billion and saving you $3,000–$5,000 annually by eliminating property taxes. A key concern for many is how this plan affects first responders—our firefighters, police, and emergency services. This page explains how the Core GRT Plan supports first responders, ensuring they have the resources they need to keep our communities safe.

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💰 Funding for First Responders

The Core GRT Plan allocates substantial funding to ensure first responders are fully supported, with no cuts to their budgets:

• Local Government Allocation: The plan provides $1.5 billion to local governments, with an estimated $215 million dedicated to first responders across South Dakota. For example, Pennington County receives $31 million to support Rapid City’s fire and police services (Page 16: Implementation Plan).
• Surplus Buffer: A $95.8 million surplus acts as a buffer, ensuring funding stability even in economic downturns, so first responders never face shortages (Page 25: Taxes).
• SD-DOGE Oversight: The South Dakota Department of Government Efficiency (SD-DOGE) will conduct annual audits and enforce Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB), ensuring funds are used efficiently and reach first responders as intended (Page 29: Deep Dive: How SD-DOGE Will Function).

Analogy for Clarity: The GRT is like a picnic cake that funds picnic heroes—we set aside $215 million in picnic cake slices, Rapid City gets $31 million to keep picnic firefighters ready, and extra picnic frosting ensures our heroes are always safe!

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💡 Why It Matters: Safety First

The Core GRT Plan ensures that first responders—our firefighters, police, and emergency services—have the resources they need to protect South Dakotans, aligning with our commitment to maximum liberty:

• No Cuts, Only Support: With $215 million dedicated to first responders, the plan guarantees no cuts, ensuring communities like Rapid City and rural areas alike remain safe (Page 16: Implementation Plan).
• Transparency and Accountability: SD-DOGE’s oversight ensures funds are distributed transparently, reflecting the Founders’ vision of a government accountable to the people (Page 34: Deep Dive: The Bill of Rights and Tax Freedom).
• Community Resilience: By securing first responder funding, the Core GRT Plan supports community resilience, complementing the $1.6 billion in property tax savings that free up resources for South Dakotans (Page 28: Taxes: Mechanics and Impact of the Core GRT Plan).

Analogy for Clarity: Our picnic heroes keep the picnic safe, and the GRT gives them $215 million in picnic cake slices to do their job, while picnic referees (SD-DOGE) make sure the picnic stays fair, so everyone can enjoy a free and safe picnic!

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📂 Learn More

• 🌄 Our Vision for South Dakota
  The future we’re building — bold, free, and family-first.
• 📊 End Property Tax: GRT Plan
  How the 5% Gross Receipts Tax will replace property taxes — and why it works.
• 📈 Revenue Verification
  Ensuring every dollar is accounted for — transparency you can trust.
• 🛡️ Safeguards to Protect Homes
  No tricks, no traps — just locked-in protections you can count on.
• 🕵️ SD-DOGE: Our Government Watchdog
  Efficiency, oversight, and a watchdog that works for the people.
• 👉Get the Facts
  Will Prices Go Up?: Debunk myths about price increases under the GRT.
• 🚀 Join the Movement
  Your voice. Your state. Your moment. Get involved today.