A recent article from the Capital Sun by Clark Corbin highlights the financial impact of Idaho tax cuts over the past five years, with reduced state revenues of $4 billion since 2021. Those reductions in state revenue have significantly impacted the state. As we are all aware, those cuts have resulted in across-the-board state agency budget cuts of 4%, including cuts that will significantly impact state services.

Those cuts are not some ephemeral, vague number, but have and will continue to significantly impact Idahoans’ lives. As Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy Director Kendra Knighten points out, “those are dollars that could have been invested in public education, or could have gone to improving our roads and public safety. They could have gone into helping to support Medicaid to help k

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