OPINION: Governmental dysfunction at its finest in Idaho’s State Capitol Building
Idaho elected leaders bought into the national tax scheme devised by the MAGA crowd in Washington, D.C., to the severe detriment of programs critical to Idaho. It’s as if the governor and Legislature are unaware that the economic health of the Gem State is highly reliant on proper management of its natural resources or that they must provide for the essential needs of all Idahoans. We don’t fit the national cookie-cutter of the Big Beautiful Billionaire Bill (BBBB), which would increase the national debt to an unsustainable $40 trillion. Idaho can’t deficit-finance like the federal government, and our so-called leaders refuse to raise sufficient revenue to fund important programs.
Rather than carefully considering how to finance essential needs, our state officials have chosen to reduce state revenues by $330 million — $155 million for the current fiscal year and $175 million for the next. It could come in closer to $400 million for the next fiscal year. That’s on top of $4 billion in tax cuts over the last five years.
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