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Bill description: SB1283 provides a consistent method for individuals to seek a waiver, variance, or amendment of an existing Idaho rule. Rating: +1Does it give government any new, additional, or expanded power to prohibit, restrict, or regulate activities in the free market? Conversely, does it eliminate or reduce government intervention in the market?SB 1283 says […]
Bill description: SB 1278 increases fee-funded government subsidies for driver training programs operated by the government. Rating: -3 Does it transfer a function of the private sector to the government? Examples include government ownership or control of any providers of goods or services such as the Land Board’s purchase of a self-storage facility, mandatory emissions […]
Bill description: HB 367 would authorize the Idaho Board of Environmental Quality to establish design criteria for new phosphogypsum stacks. Rating: -2 Does it create, expand, or enlarge any agency, board, program, function, or activity of government? This bill expands the power of the Idaho Board of Environmental Quality to make rules about how new […]
Bill description: SB 1254 amends the statute governing charitable bingo and raffles by defining what charitable organizations qualify for a license, reducing the number of members on the bingo-raffle advisory board, and making other changes and corrections. Rating: -2 Does it give government any new, additional, or expanded power to prohibit, restrict, or regulate activities […]
Dear Santa, The gang at the Idaho Freedom Foundation was very good in 2019, and knowing that we’re not the easiest to shop for, we’ve made a list of gifts that help celebrate the expansion of freedom, along with an explanation. Please let us know if you have any questions. A NEW CONVERTIBLE: We’re not […]
The optics behind the State Board of Education’s super-quiet decision late last month to reapprove Common Core education standards should not sit well with Idahoans. Residents petitioned the board for hearings on Common Core; five hearings were held across the state. Two days before Thanksgiving, the board reapproved the standards without so much as a […]
The Idaho Legislature hasn’t acted to fix the state’s strict cannabis prohibition even as the state ensnares otherwise innocent people in its zero-tolerance net. Interstate truck drivers hauling hemp from legal farm to legal farm face life-altering criminal penalties at the hands of Idaho law enforcement and prosecutors. Every day, sickly Idahoans—sufferers of depression, elderly […]
Some long-overdue public hearings and discussions regarding Idaho’s education standards are coming your way. Hundreds of Idahoans asked the State Board of Education to open a discussion on Idaho’s decision, nine years ago, to adopt Common Core. (Though revised a bit in 2017, much of the troublesome standards remains). As a result, the petitioners got […]
Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts and the Idaho State Police, collectively referred hereinafter as the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, continue to defend the arrest and prosecution of truck drivers who were innocently transporting non-narcotic hemp through the state. Bennetts and the ISP keep up the persecution despite an onslaught of criticism, public outcry, and […]
Bill description: SB 1159 would revise several procedures for the initiative process in Idaho. Rating: +1 Does it violate the spirit or the letter of either the US Constitution or the Idaho Constitution? Examples include restrictions on speech, public assembly, the press, privacy, private property, or firearms. Conversely, does it restore or uphold the protections […]
Bill description: HB 241 would establish a new type of taxing district, for county fairs. Rating: -5 Does it create, expand, or enlarge any agency, board, program, function, or activity of government? Conversely, does it eliminate or curtail the size or scope of government? House Bill 241 would expand government power by allowing for the […]
By Dr. John M. Livingston | Medical Policy Adviser When I listen to progressive socialists talk about morality I first have to ask, What is the basis of their moral position? If someone says a “bridge is immoral” I have to ask, how can a thing be immoral? A person or idea can be immoral. […]
