Otter Wants More Tax $$$ For Roads

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  Sisyphus on February 10 at 4:10 p.m.

  Why do you think the discontent is geographically isolated?

  Sometimes living in Idaho is bizarro world. They won’t take money from the feds to help solve their fiscal crisis but they will raise taxes at the worst possible time. They still are going to renege on lowering the regressive sales tax as well. This is really going to be fun to watch come March.

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  Transplanted_Texan on February 10 at 4:20 p.m.

  Your question, DFO assumes we all agree that our leaders are elected to follow the latest polls rather than to make the desicion they think is best as based, then put it to the test in the next election. A leader should look at polls and care about what the public thinks, yes, but it shouldn’t be the only thing he cares about and looks at in making his decision. You want him to betray his conciense?

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  Sisyphus on February 10 at 4:27 p.m.

  I love the fact that the lobbyist for IACI is standing right over Denney’s shoulder. Yet I see no stinking badge on him in violation of the law.

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  JamesBond on February 10 at 4:43 p.m.

  Governor Tax-and-Spend-a-Lot and his Merry Band of Corporate Welfare Sucking Weasels is at it again, proposing to take more and more money away from people in the deepest recession felt since the early 1980s.

  The Republican Party in Idaho has completely given up being the party for fiscal conservatives. With them, it’s always about whatever big public works project they can jam through in order to give fat contracts to their Corporate Slavemasters. As Sisyyphus pointed out above, the photo shows the IACI Lobbyist hovering over from above, probably texting his board that the Governor is saying what he’s supposed to say. No doubt the contractors had their lobbyists there too.

  This is all about consultant contracts, just like GARVEE. It’s not about building roads. We’re going to spend bazillions on “consulting,” at which point we’ll need to raise more taxes to pay for maybe 10% mileage-wise of the roads that were initially promised.

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  Escapee on February 10 at 7:33 p.m.

  Let’s see…increase gas taxes to fix the highways. Make gas more unaffordable for motorists, who’ll drive less on roads which will get fixed for them to drive on. Only people will buy less gas, so gas tax revenues will go down, at which time the gas tax will get raised again, and so on, and so forth…

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  moscow_minidoka on February 11 at 7:21 a.m.

  I’m with Sisyphus - why do you think this has any taint of regionalism? As a native Southern Idahoan but North Idahoan by choice, I am often baffled by this knee-jerk regionalism. Do you not think there are roads in the Pocatello or Twin Falls areas that need help, too? Highway 95 between CDA and Sandpoint isn’t the only dangerous road in the state…

  But that’s beside the point - Butch Otter does NOT care about the state of Idaho at all, be it North, Southcentral, Eastern, etc. He cares about his lobbyists. He cares about rewarding friends with contracts.

  I don’t know how many bazillion times I voted for him as Lt Gov - I thought he was a fine Lt Gov - but I really miss Phil Batt and Cecil Andrus at times like these.

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