Idaho Gov. Butch Otter rejected this week the full repeal of Idaho’s grocery tax, a move that would have given families more buying power and cut government waste. That has some residents disappointed in the governor. In a press conference late last week, Otter, serving the first year of his third term, told reporters the grocery tax repeal isn’t part of his 2015 agenda. Otter did, though, tout the expansion of the grocery rebate, which allows residents to receive a check back from the state for taxes paid during the year, during his State of the State address delivered Monday at the Capitol in Boise. Those checks, usually $100 per person in each household, come after Idahoans file income tax returns/IdahoReporter.com. More here.

Question: Do you consider the repeal of the grocery tax important?