The state of Idaho is facing a significant budget crunch this year. There will be painful budget cuts across the board. Well, not quite across the board. The extremely unpopular school voucher scheme, which garnered over 30,000 calls to the governor to ask him to veto, remains fully funded. Every other agency will see cuts, including Medicaid.

The sole reason for this mayhem? The regressive tax plan that was enacted in this year’s legislative session. To be fair, who could have ever thought that a $450 million cut to revenue could ever lead to a budget shortfall? The governor, for one. Gov. Little was very vocal about the state’s inability to afford this tax cut. He signed it anyway.

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