Conservative Sen. Cook wants to expand the size of government, raise taxes and limit our freedoms — again. In his opinion piece, “Idaho needs to keep investing in programs like Launch,” Sen. Cook wants more spending and control over education, and to increase the transfer of our wealth through government force.

Whenever you subsidize something, you get more of it. Very few politicians understand that, and at the same time, they break another rule: government is not supposed to help people. Government can give us nothing without first stealing from the private sector through taxation. It is not enough that the state provides “free” education for K-12; now, lawmakers want to tax us to pay for college kids’ tuition. Idaho spends about $8,000 per student in public schools, and they are gradua

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