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IFF: Bold Tax Plan Tops Butch’s

Idaho lawmakers are finally taking the bold approach to the state’s confiscatory tax policies that I’ve been hoping to see for years. Sadly the proposal being floated lacks the polish necessary to actually pass. It cuts taxes on some but raises it on others. The proposal would lower the state’s top marginal income tax rate from 7.4 percent to around 6.5 percent. That’s way more aggressive than Gov. Butch Otter’s milquetoast 0.1 percent a year for four years. If the proposal manages to get out of the House, I predict it is dead on arrival in the Senate, where the tax committee will probably frown on a plan that has anyone facing an increased tax burden. The plan under consideration would raise all the other income tax brackets in the state’s progressive income tax structure. That means people who pay as little as 1.6 percent up to 6.1 percent and everything in between would see their taxes rise/Wayne Hoffman, Idaho Freedom Foundation. More here.

Question: Do you support a tax plan like this one that would lower taxes on the richest Idahoans and raise them on lower-income ones?



D.F. Oliveria
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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