<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>It is called a recession. I don't think we can get down on people for trying to balance the budget. 3% really isn't as big as a hit as it probabably will be. </DIV>
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<DIV>The problem I think we have is that the government doesn't cut in the right areas. Nor will it consider increasing funding in other areas that could increase revenue. They also sometimes cut areas that result in greater increases in costs of living. In my opinion, we need to rethink and restructure they way we consider government and the state does business. Too many lawyers and impractical laws force the state to do things the $1,000,000 way rather than the $1 way. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan <BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 12/1/08, Tom Hansen <I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Otter Orders Additional 3-percent Cut<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 11:06 AM<BR><BR><PRE>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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