Saundra McDavid

Millions of employers are having to lay off workers because they can no longer afford to pay them.  So what does the Idaho Department of Labor do?  Force the employers to pay more taxes on the employees that they are struggling to keep employed.   In a move illustrative of the problem with government agencies, the bureaucratic solution is to raise taxes on those who have no standing to refuse to pay them.   

In this case unemployment has increased, and the Idaho State Insurance Fund is dipping into its fund to pay the unemployment claims.  What is happening to everyone across the nation, (dipping into the principal), and the solution to the problem (cut back on expenses) is evidently not in the relm of reality for Idaho’s Department of Labor.  Instead its solution is to increase taxes by 70% to build back the principal; to  increase taxes on the employers who have already slashed their business to the minimum in order to keep the doors open and provide jobs and likely don’t have the cash flow to cover the costs of any tax increases.

Send Idaho Department of Labor, Roger B. Madsen your comments on this tax increase which will likely drive more people to the ranks of the unemployed.  ““I deeply regret having to send this rate notice, but I am mandated by law to do so,” Madsen said in an interview on KTVB.  “I have worked for the past 25 years to lower what were the nation’s highest tax rates in 1984 to our lowest rates in history. Unfortunately, the slow economy triggers this automatic tax increase.” His e-mail is rmadsen@labor.idaho.gov.

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