IFF Airs Alternative Budget

The Idaho Freedom Foundation on Tuesday released an alternative to Gov. Butch Otter’s budget proposal. The IFF budget plan dramatically lowers income taxes, gets rid of the sales tax on groceries, provides $62.5 million for highways and increases funding for public schools. The budget contemplates spending $3.05 billion, an increase of 3.8 percent over last year’s appropriation. Otter’s budget would increase spending by 6.5 percent, when fund transfers are treated as expenses. The IFF budget also takes into account the $25 million that is expected to be required to cover fire suppression costs, something Otter’s budget does not/ Idaho Freedom Foundation news release. More here.

• IFF’s alternative budget

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