The Custer County Commissioners
July 14th, 2006 by ErinImmanuel Kant, an 18th century philosopher, wrote of the antinomies of pure reason in his seminal book, The Critique of Pure Reason. The antinomies were contradictory but defensible propositions. The key word here is "contradictory." Kant may have thought he understood something about the absence of pure reason, but he never met the Board of Equalization in Custer County. The Board of Equalization astoundingly failed, yet again, to grant the previously tax exempt status to the Greenfire preserve. This year’s blather consists of claiming Greenfire doesn’t meet the following statute:
According to Idaho state statute 63-605. "It states lands must be owned and used for wildlife habitat by a private, nonprofit corporation that has federal 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt status or must be managed under a conservation easement or agreement with such a private, nonprofit corporation."
All of which, of course, is true of Greenfire and WWP. The Custer County BOE should be regaled with raspberries for using the BOE to advance their personal political ends.