[Vision2020] Idaho Is Poorly Managed by a bunch of Ignorant Republican Farmers

[David M. Budge]

Dick Schmidt wrote:

"They had perfect opportunity to fund education this past week with 
their CF (those who have been in the military know what CF means) 
handling of the renewal of the cigarette tax. Idaho has the lowest 
cigarette tax in the area and they should have added $1.00 on to the tax 
for a total of $1.57 a pack for cigarettes and used the money for 
education but no, these people are just too damn stupid!"

Well Dick,  Montana just instituted such a tax voted in by referendum 
and guess what?  Cigarette tax revenues are down $1 million for the 
first two months of 2005 over 2004 before the tax was levied. This is 
due in no small measure to the fact that, in both Montana and Idaho, we 
have an abundance if tribal reservations where state taxes are not 
collected.

As well, the tobacco tax is highly regressive in that the great 
preponderance of people who smoke are in the lower income brackets.  So 
taxing the "poor" seems as though it would make getting an education 
more difficult for those who need it to lift them up to a higher 
economic strata.

I'll grant you that "these people are just too damn stupid!", but there 
is nothing new in that. As I say, never underestimate the stupidity of 
your government.

db

> I fully agree with Chris Storhok and his statement that the Idaho 
> legislature are the people partly responsible for the dire straights 
> the University of Idaho finds itself.
>  
> One of the first dumb laws the legislature passed this session was to 
> continue letting blue grass farmers burn their fields and screw the 
> people who have asthma and breathing problems. This action could only 
> come from a bunch of ignorant farmers using archaic farming methods. 
> The state of Washington stopped this burning a few years ago and I 
> still see blue grass being produced there. Much of the land where 
> Idaho farmers are growing blue grass is marginal land that isn't much 
> good for anything else. What in the hell is the EPA for? Why can't 
> they stop this?
>  
> They had perfect opportunity to fund education this past week with 
> their CF (those who have been in the military know what CF means) 
> handling of the renewal of the cigarette tax. Idaho has the lowest 
> cigarette tax in the area and they should have added $1.00 on to the 
> tax for a total of $1.57 a pack for cigarettes and used the money for 
> education but no, these people are just too damn stupid!
>  
> The main person responsible for the mess the university is in is 
> Robert Hoover. If I was being laid off I would be down there in his 
> office threatening him with bodily harm for being such an A** Hole. He 
> is the guy who needs some pressure as he is the dink who pushed the 
> program that was a disaster. I couldn't believe it when they reported 
> that one whole floor of the building they have in Boise was for his 
> office. What an arrogant prick.
>  
> It is time for me to step off this soap box.
>  
> Dick Schmidt
>
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