Edit: Task force collides w/reality

Talk about futile missions. The Idaho Legislature’s public lands task force wrote the book. Those task force members launched their enterprise with great fanfare. They were going to help compel the U.S. government to relinquish millions of acres held by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Two years later, reality had prevailed. The federal and state constitutions wouldn’t allow it. Idaho could never afford to manage those lands. Industry said these legislators were on the wrong track. And the public was against it. All of which has just got to sound awfully familiar to those lawmakers now serving on the Tax Working Group. After its secret study of Utah’s flat income tax got exposed, the panel’s public sessions have been inundated with unpleasant facts. Key among them was outgoing Commerce Director Jeff Sayer’s admonition that what ails Idaho’s economy is not taxes - it’s a low-wage, low-skill economy sputtering on an underfunded education system/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

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