Could Idaho afford to incorporate that much more rural land without cities to increase its tax base? They purposely avoid even Bend because that’s where Oregon starts getting liberal.
> Could Idaho afford to incorporate that much more rural land without cities to increase its tax base?
Sure, because by incorporating more economically underperforming areaa and dropping its per capita GDP, its federal funding share under many state-federal programs woild go up, increasing the degree to which if is subsidized by the rest of the country, including the reduced Oregon, which would get lesser proportion of federal funding for the same programs by shedding underperforming regions.
