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Fiscal Policy
- Enhance the financial strength of Idaho by maintaining a balanced budget.
- Provide accountability and transparency to the taxpayer.
- Keep the growth of government spending in check.
- Support zero-based budgeting. Each agency must justify its expenditures in its budget request before funding may
be approved.
- Minimize the tax burden.
- Spend tax dollars efficiently.
Education
- Provide a quality education in a disciplined and safe environment.
- Give our children a solid academic foundation combined with practical skills.
- Promote policies to support parental involvement in the classroom and family choice.
- Strengthen the public school system by supporting professional educators.
- Support early childhood reading development.
- Promote technology in the classroom.
- Support gifted and talented programs.
- Give more control to local school boards.
- Provide affordable education through a Community College system.
- Support Higher Education as critical to economic development.
Agriculture
- Recognize the value of agriculture to our communities, utilizing incentives that help to protect the family farm.
- Recognize that agriculture is a fundamental and necessary industry to the economy of Idaho.
- Utilize the resources of Higher Education to capitalize on research for agricultural development.
Promote markets for Idaho’s crops.
Natural Resources
- Fight to preserve state jurisdiction over Idaho water.
- Advocate reasonable management for the protection of resources from contamination.
- Support the concept of forest health.
- Emphasize multiple use, local control, and minimal government regulation.
- Honor property rights in our efforts to restore, protect, and enhance the environment for future generations.
INL
- Recognize that the role of the INL is critical to the defense of our nation and for the development of energy policy.
- Support research and development missions that provide safe, economical nuclear power.
- Enhance opportunities for the transfer of technology from the INL to private industry.
- Support the development of alternative sources of energy.
Health Care
- Reduce health care costs as a way to insure more Idahoans.
- Promote policies for a healthier population.
- Create scientific, evidence-based standards of care for every major disease and develop goals to reduce the incidence
of disease.
- Encourage greater consumer involvement in health care decisions.
- Utililize technology in the health care industry.
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