<div class="MsoNormal">"The Revenue and Taxation Committee just voted to combine some of the property tax relief into one bill transfer the .3% property tax for schools to 1.25% sales tax increase; $75,000 homeowners exemption keyed for growth to the Idaho Housing Index." --Rep. Shirley Ringo<br> <br> <br> Why doesn't the right wing legislature just save themselves the headache and tax those making less than 30K a year 50% of their income to pay for a big tax break to the wealthiest 10%?<br> <br> I just cannot believe that the Democrats are losing to these dumb asses! <br> <br> _DJA</div> <br><br><b><i>Shirley Ringo <ringoshirl@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial"
size="2">Visionaries:</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">April 4, 2006</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Revenue and Taxation Committee just voted to combine some of the property tax relief into one bill transfer the .3% property tax for schools to 1.25% sales tax increase; $75,000 homeowners exemption keyed for growth to the Idaho Housing Index.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This is to be voted upon tomorrow.<span style=""> </span>I am very disappointed to be robbed of the opportunity to vote on the merits of these individually.<span style=""> </span>The bill, HB 876, is very complex.<span style=""> </span>You can be sure that many legislators
will vote for it without understanding the details.<span style=""> </span>Although I havent seen an analysis at this time (and legislators should insist on seeing one), I believe that middle class and lower income folks will not benefit from this change.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Shirley</div></div>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br></blockquote><br><p>
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