Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is staring down a $3.1 million budget deficit, and city officials have one idea on the table: raise your property taxes again — because that is always the answer when government can't live within its means.
Working Americans in this lakeside city are being asked to dig deeper every single year while municipal spending marches steadily upward. The proposed 2027 budget climbs to nearly $61.8 million from roughly $58.7 million in 2026. That's not a cut. That's not holding the line. That's a spending increase dressed up as fiscal responsibility. The Lewiston Morning Tribune, publishing an editorial from the Coeur d'Alene Press, laid out the numbers plainly: Finance Director Katie Ebner is tasked with finding savings before Tuesday's budget hearing, but the default mechanism remains another property tax increase. The editorial noted that raising property taxes has become
