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Scott decries STEM tax credit bill

Legislation to add Idaho’s new STEM Action Center to the list of educational entities to which donations qualify for a state tax credit has cleared the House on a 66-4 vote, after Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, led the opposition. “It’s not that I hate children or do not want to donate to these agencies,” Scott told the House. “The money that’s coming out of that is coming from our general fund, and our general fund is going down by that amount. … There is no oversight to many of these tax credits. When the money is refunded, it’s not tracked through the schools how it’s actually being spent. Shortfalls are made up by raising taxes for everyone else, kind of like last year with the gas tax ..."/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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