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Gov. Butch Otter today launched an “efficiency” Web site aimed at laying out the state’s budget and soliciting money-saving ideas from citizens. “We need your help. Government does not have a monopoly on good ideas,” Otter wrote in the site’s introduction. “There are hundreds of thousands of smart, thoughtful and civic-minded people in Idaho with constructive and useful insights on what State government should do, what it can do better, and what it shouldn’t do at all. We want to hear from you. Some changes made at the agency level already are making a difference – travel restrictions, more use of video-teleconferencing and other available technologies, more consolidating of responsibilities, leaving job vacancies unfilled, and even such things as reducing the use of paper and other office supplies. But more needs to be done.”
The site offers a view of the total dollars going to each agency or budget area, along with links to more detailed information. Next to each broad budget area, such as natural resources, economic development, or state revenue, viewers are solicited to send in their money-saving ideas for that area.
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tlo on November 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Butch should try listening to Shirley…it’s really refreshing to see someome come up with a reasonable idea (and a Democrat, yet; sort of a surprise after all their knee-jerk “no new taxes” bleating during the last legislative session.)
IdahoRed on November 14 at 12:57 p.m.
Anyone with half a brain, knows you don’t raise taxes during a recession/depression. The socialist agenda is to tax and spend people into bankruptcy. Common sense tells you when you don’t have the income to cover your expenses you cut your expenses and live within your means. This applies to government also. But to rob from me to give to my neighbor is theft. It may be legal in the name of taxes but it is still theft, legalized plunder.
When your household incomes decreases and you tell your kids you’re going to have to tighten the belt and cut back on the extras and the spoiled kids throw a tantrum because they think they are ‘entitled’ to everything they ‘want’ do you give in and say ok, I’ll steal from the neighbors so you can have what you want? Well the liberals are the spoiled brats who think they are ‘entitled’ to whatever they want even if that means stealing from their neighbors. That my friends is called TYRANNY!
Some of you may think that is just fine but for me and my family we will reap what ‘we’ sow. We will get out of life what ‘we’ put into it. We will enjoy the benefits of our own labor and live within our means or we will increase our means. If we don’t work we don’t eat. What we produce is ours to keep. We share with others because we ‘want’ to, not because we have to. That is the root of great things. That my friends is called LIBERTY!
PalouseDave on November 15 at 7:46 a.m.
Tio will you pay my share of the temporary taxes that you like so much?
I doubt it.
slfisher on November 16 at 9:47 a.m.
I didn’t see any details about how the money was allocated, just an overall figure to each commission, etc. How are we supposed to make intelligent suggestions?