Whether or not she’s a baseball fan, South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson finds herself living one of Yogi Berra’s famous sayings: “It’s deja vu all over again.”

An election year is seldom a good time to talk about raising a tax that everyone pays. South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden avoided that trap on Tuesday. He could have pleaded that South Dakota’s economy was in tough times and urged the Legislature to return the state sales and use tax

The measure requires legislative changes to voter-approved measures, within seven years of a successful vote, to pass with a 3/4 vote in both chambers.