47 - Snake Swapper

So let's launch into this then as it is right along the lines of the district doesn't get enough and it needs more money and we need more money for schools.

The Idaho state budget is projected to end the current fiscal year with a larger surplus than lawmakers previously expected.

That comes after the state made spending cuts across multiple departments last year.

Now new estimates from the Legislative Services Office show the state's financial outlook has improved.

When the Idaho legislature wrapped up in April, lawmakers estimated the state would have about $150 million in surplus funds at the end of the fiscal year 2027.

But the latest estimate from the Legislative Services Office now puts that number at about $657 million.

That's roughly $507 million more than the estimate made in April.

The latest figures reflect the state's current revenue and spending projections.

So there's an...

So the experts... whose immune systems have been erased by raw milk.

It turns out they can't estimate for jack crap.

What is that, like a 9 million percent error?

Uh, it's big.

Also, also speaking of short memories, do you remember how early in the session? So we're talking February, March, they couldn't shut up about how we were facing dire financial straits.

And of course it was all the mean, mean, mean old conservative Republicans faults for not spending enough money on education and healthcare.

I mean, that's why we were in the hole

are killing people literally, literally.

That's all we heard.

Literally killing people to the tune of a half a billion dollar surplus.

That sounds like total death to me.

Man, it's a good thing these people are in charge.

It's a good thing they're so much smarter than us, huh, Scott? So not only can they extract maximum dollar from us and celebrate the fact that they've extracted maximum dollar for us, but they never will stop complaining about how it's not enough while they're extracting maximum dollar from us.

And they're wrong about how much they got from us.

Here's another one that I missed.

Governor Brad Little has ordered state officials to keep spending.

So let's launch into this then as it is right along the lines of the district doesn't get enough and it needs more money and we need more money for schools.

The Idaho state budget is projected to end the current fiscal year with a larger surplus than lawmakers previously expected.

That comes after the state made spending cuts across multiple departments last year.

Now new estimates from the Legislative Services Office show the state's financial outlook has improved.

When the Idaho legislature wrapped up in April, lawmakers estimated the state would have about $150 million in surplus funds at the end of the fiscal year 2027.

But the latest estimate from the Legislative Services Office now puts that number at about $657 million.

That's roughly $507 million more than the estimate made in April.

The latest figures reflect the state's current revenue and spending projections.

So there's an...

So the experts... whose immune systems have been erased by raw milk.

It turns out they can't estimate for jack crap.

What is that, like a 9 million percent error?

Uh, it's big.

Also, also speaking of short memories, do you remember how early in the session? So we're talking February, March, they couldn't shut up about how we were facing dire financial straits.

And of course it was all the mean, mean, mean old conservative Republicans faults for not spending enough money on education and healthcare.

I mean, that's why we were in the hole

are killing people literally, literally.

That's all we heard.

Literally killing people to the tune of a half a billion dollar surplus.

That sounds like total death to me.

Man, it's a good thing these people are in charge.

It's a good thing they're so much smarter than us, huh, Scott? So not only can they extract maximum dollar from us and celebrate the fact that they've extracted maximum dollar for us, but they never will stop complaining about how it's not enough while they're extracting maximum dollar from us.

And they're wrong about how much they got from us.

Here's another one that I missed.

Governor Brad Little has ordered state officials to keep spending.