[Vision2020] Otter Orders Additional 3-percent Cut

[Art Deco]

Actually, it seems like a prudent move.  If you don't have the money or prospects, best not to try to spend it.

W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:06 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Otter Orders Additional 3-percent Cut


  As corporate tax breaks in Idaho are ever on the increase, so are budget 
  cuts.  Hey, Otter's got to make up for that lost tax revenue somehow, 
  right?

  Don't blame me.  I certainly didn't vote for him.

  >From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News -

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  Otter orders additional 3-percent cut
  December 1, 2008, 10:36 am

  Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has ordered agencies to cut another three percent 
  from their budgets as state officials blame a sputtering economy for 
  forcing them to downgrade their tax revenue forecasts for the second time 
  in three months.

  Otter's latest cuts will trim a total of $81 million from the state budget.

  In September, the Republican governor ordered a 1 percent, or $27 million, 
  cut from the budget.

  Collapsing construction activity, plummeting real-estate sales and 
  thousands of job cuts at companies like Micron Technology Inc., the 
  state's biggest private employer, have forced Idaho agencies to tighten 
  their belts.

  In the first round of cuts in September, most agencies were able to 
  achieve the savings with measures like not filling open positions.

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  Seeya in the soup line, Moscow.

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho
   
  "For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
  Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
  to work."


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