Chris Cargill

Citizens have a right to elect governors, legislators, presidents, and judges without government-issued warnings about what might happen if those candidates win. Surely we can trust those same citizens to evaluate a tax initiative.

If you distrust government with spending and tax decisions, why would you put politicians at your state capitol in charge of more of it? That's the question at the center of Idaho's current debate over property taxes. There is no statewide property tax in Idaho, but local governments can collect property tax revenue. Property taxes frustrate homeowners for understandable reasons. Paying off your mortgage does not end the annual bill. A rising home value does not put cash in your checking...

Jennings' advertisement is so demonstrably false it raises a larger question: why is Jeopardy! allowing him to sully its reputation?