Analysis: Tax Cut Would Hurt Schools

The draft bill released last week by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter to phase out the state’s personal property tax on business equipment would have a “devastating” impact on the state’s public schools, according to a new analysis by Mike Ferguson, the former longtime chief state economist who now heads the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy; you can read it here . “Other state programs (colleges and universities, health and human services, public safety, etc.) would be adversely impacted, but none to the degree of public schools,” Ferguson writes/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: If Gov. Otter cared about schools, why is he still pushing to eliminate the personal property tax and help his big-business friends? Oh.