After three days of long and intense hearings, the House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted 13-5 to kill legislation to raise Idaho’s beer and wine taxes. The measure, HB 140, was designed to raise a tax not raised in more than four decades, to fund substance abuse treatment services, an area the state has struggled the last few years to fund as it’s expanded services in an effort to trim the state’s large prison population/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here. How they voted here.

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Question: Do you support the votes by North Idaho Reps. Clark, Hart & Harwood to kill the bill to raise taxes on beer and wine? (George Sayler was for it.)