GROWTH: Wages vs. expenses

I am sure you have received countless emails regarding this topic on the rapid growth. I know I have read many blogs with complaints. This rapid growth, with poor, reckless management, is destroying Idaho.

Here is a rundown.

We did not ask for this, want this, or welcome this. We in no way benefit from this, so why so shocked when we don’t want to pay for it?

Who is benefiting from this? Shouldn’t they be the ones paying for it? Tax the hell out of the developers, and tax the hell out of title transfers. For every new vehicle that enters our state.

Triple the taxes for our governor! I wonder how the Governor would like it if we dropped a big, ugly, broken down bus right on his front lawn. And then taxed him for it. Nothing he could do about it. It’s there forever, deal with it, and pay, pay, pay.

When I was 19, minimum wage was $5.25 an hour, rent for my two bedroom apartment in Kellogg was $250 a month.

When I moved to Post Falls, my rent was $425 for a real nice 2 bed 2 bath with washer/dryer, workout room and pool.

Today my daughter is 19. She has a small 1-bedroom, 3rd floor apartment. Her rent is $1,350 a month, which doesn’t include utilities, nor does it include the insurance she is required to have. When her lease is up, they are raising the rent to $1,700.

Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Rent has quadrupled while minimum wage has increased by just one-half.

How is this OK? How is any of this OK?

ANGELA LYNCH

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