Comments on: Developers Spell Canyon Crop Failure

By: Slim Jim

Slim Jim — Thu, 25 May 2006 00:43:19 +0000

Now several years ago did not the slogan start: BUY IDAHO.
Well, that is what out of state people have been doing. They have listened to the message and are buying as much of Idaho as they can get their dirty little mitts onto. Then selling it off to other people who want to BUY IDAHO, only at higher prices than the Idaho common working person can afford. That’s ok, someone has to rent.

By: JOE

JOE — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:57:11 +0000

The real estate market in the rest of the country is dieing. This is going to put a nice stop to Idaho migration.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 22 May 2006 05:17:22 +0000

OK, you’ve got it figured out. Now how can we get our idiot politicians to understand that getting a few more bucks in the sales tax doesn’t make up for the loss of our state?
And, as property taxes skyrocket because of jacked-up assessments, the politicians still keep trying to tell us that’ll save us money — at least that’s what I think they are saying. Hard to understand some of them when they’re talking out of both sides of their mouths.
Meanwhile, they’re pushing to increase the sales tax once again.

But, they say, this increase would go for schools. Yeah, right; that’s how they conned the people into approving the current sales tax in the first place (after they’d thrown out an earlier one many years ago) by saying it would go for schools. And then they placated the antigambling folks by saying the lottery would provide lots of money for schools.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Well, they’ve fooled us lots more times that that — so shame on all of us.
By the way, Guardian? What office are you going to run for?
Whatever it is, you’ve got my vote.