Comments on: Reader’s Open Letter To Legislators https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/ A different slant on the news. Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Forced Air https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-109132 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:22:43 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-109132 Looking through the list of contributors, one can find that most of them are businesses and firms that ALL got a free ride during COVID. I’m going to make this plain and simple….I used to believe that catchy phrase liberals like to spew “taxes equal civilization” which we are supposed to infer that we wouldn’t have anything without government. PHOOEY! I have come to see government as a perfect weapon for corrupt mobs to wield and enslave the masses in a fake democracy, making them think they actually have a say in anything. This whole COVID scam proved that.

Taxes are just a form of theft to extract money to launder to special interests and then circle back to the very politicians that created them. I don’t trust the GOP leadership any more than I trust the Democratic Socialist Party as the “loyal opposition.”

I see where a Mileage Tax is being pushed as a trial balloon from D.C. As a former Greenie, I can tell you what else is coming. They will NOT STOP until you have NO MORE car and most of your possessions are confiscated….just like the World Economic Forum is planning. You will live in a small abode, and you will be “sustainable.” One nick at a time.

Doubt me now and we’ll check again next year.

]]> By: Caeth https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-109004 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:50:24 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-109004 TFCow: Wouldn’t that necessitate superior cognitive functioning?

]]> By: TFCow https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-109001 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 19:12:37 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-109001 This is a fork in the road for the democrats. If they can identify the republicans in the legislature with the lowest cognitive functioning they could pick up some seats for promoting common sense at least, and tax relief and education at best.

]]> By: Boise Model https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-109000 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:51:09 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-109000 Obviously the Secretary of State has not got the message that he must first and foremost “tow the party line”. The latest move on Friday by the legislature was a threat to cut his budget.

There are other examples of this same tactic.

You wonder if the legislature’s next step will be to go after the governor’s budget or the budget of the Idaho Supreme Court.

After that…

Make the process to recall legislators impossible?

]]> By: Boise Model https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-108999 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:08:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-108999 Seems sales tax reduction bill should be relabeled the Developer and Construction Industry Profitability Bill. Since all construction materials are subject to sales tax.

An easy question for the State Tax Commission is how much sales tax is paid by the construction industry?

Only consumers that spend more than 50k on taxable purchases would see a savings.

]]> By: chicago sam https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-108997 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 01:02:31 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-108997 Online article in the Idaho Press and likely tomorrows paper detailing Rep. Skaug’s proposed bill which is sitting on Rev. and Taxation chairman Harris desk. May take a stick of dynamite to move it but the fuse has been lit. Bill would remove the cap on homeowners exemptions.

]]> By: Frank https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-108996 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 23:22:22 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-108996 I think it is noteworthy that the Idaho legislators over turned a vote by their constituents to give THEM term limits. I am not sure what year but I would guess sometime in the 1980’s. Along with that TO MANY of Idaho’s laws are adopted from red states. I’m believing a lot from Texas. Texas the state that doesn’t want to be told what to do by the feds and the people aren’t smart enough to turn off the water supply to their home when it is freezing outside and they don’t have power to heat their home. YEAH WE WANT TO BE LIKE THEM.

]]> By: Caeth https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-108995 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:48:24 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-108995 Sorry, PD. I don’t see the misguided commentary a definition of the Idaho Legislature unless you were already gleefully searching a cudgel.

]]> By: PD https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-108994 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:12:53 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-108994 Looks like Easterner has a good point. Idaho legislators embarrass us again on the national level.
Sexism.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-03-03/idaho-lawmaker-draws-ire-after-saying-moms-should-stay-home

]]> By: Caeth https://boiseguardian.com/2021/02/26/readers-open-letter-to-legislators/#comment-108993 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:34:53 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16764#comment-108993 Easterner, please don’t flatter yourself so through comparison. Mr. Kangas did not try to be cute and clever by resorting to sophomoric, insulting, bumper sticker sloganeering.

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