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Idaho’s projected $340 million gap is 14 percent of the state’s $2.3 billion general fund budget.

‘We have come to the cliff.’

That’s the word from Maxine Bell, R-Jerome, co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee and a Statehouse veteran of more than two decades.

And she’s not the only one who’ll have you hankering for reruns of Acapulco divers on "Wild World of Sports."

"The cliff is here," said the other co-chair of the Joint-Finance Appropriations Committee, Sen. Dean Cameron, R-Rupert.

"I don’t think anybody appreciated the cliff, the magnitude of the drop, when the one-time money ran out," said Sen. Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson.

Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/01/09/1481682/we-have-come-to-the-cliff.html#ixzz1AddJGjEt

BY DAN POPKEY – [email protected]

Full Story: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/01/09/1481682/we-have-come-to-the-cliff.html

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