<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Don't worry, when they cut taxes for the rich it eventually helps the poor. Why just the other day I found a whole dollar a rich guy dropped <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>and didn't even need to bother to pick it up. Score! Now I can eat today off the <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>McD's</SPAN> value menu once I find another 6 cents to pay the tax on my food.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Moscow Vision 2020 <Vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:36 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Otter Sponsors More Tax Cuts for Corporations and Top Income Bracket<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Esto</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>perpetua</SPAN>, V-Peeps.</DIV>
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<DIV>Courtesy of today's (February 29, 2012) Spokesman-Review.</DIV>
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<H1 style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.2; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; CLEAR: both; FONT-SIZE: 28px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Tax cut for top earners clears panel</H1></SPAN>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">BOISE – A $35.7 million income tax cut for Idaho corporations and top individual earners cleared the House tax committee Tuesday and headed for the full House with 40 of the 70 House members co-sponsoring it.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The measure, <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>HB</SPAN> 563, is co-sponsored by Gov. Butch Otter; it would lower Idaho’s top individual income tax rate from 7.8 percent to 7.4 percent and lower the corporate tax rate from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent. About 17 percent of Idaho income taxpayers would benefit.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 14px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Rep. John <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Rusche</SPAN>, D-<SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Lewiston</SPAN>, one of just four opponents in the House committee, said, “I don’t think it’s responsible to cut taxes when we can’t meet the current needs.” Also voting no was the committee’s chairman, Rep. Dennis Lake, R-Blackfoot.</div>
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<DIV>Idaho House Bill 563</DIV>http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/H0563.pdf</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> later, Moscow.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Coeur</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>d'Alene</SPAN>, Idaho</DIV>
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<DIV>"If not us, who?</DIV>
<DIV>If not now, when?"</DIV>
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<DIV>- Unknown</DIV>
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