Edit: Cut Idaho tuition, raise cig tax
Idahoans fed up with state university and college tuition hikes have an opportunity to cut the bills by as much as 22.7 percent by increasing the state’s cigarette tax. There should be more than enough indebted students and parents willing to sign petitions that would put that deal on the 2016 ballot. Idaho campuses, like others across the country, have raised tuition to punishing levels as legislative support for higher education gave way to other priorities; in Idaho’s case, tax cuts. The share of budget spending dedicated to postsecondary education dwindled to 8.6 percent in 2015 from a far-from-robust 13.5 percent in 1994. In reality, tuition hikes are tax increases on the middle class/Spokesman-Review Editorial Board. More here.
