In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column Friday, opinionator Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune offers jeers ...

... to Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter. Last year, Otter pulled $35 million from a wobbly state budget and handed it over to Idaho's corporations and well-off families by cutting income taxes. This year, he encouraged lawmakers to eliminate the $140 million property tax businesses pay on equipment. The Legislature extended that break to 90 percent of Idaho's companies and thereby kept the cost down to $20 million. Says Otter: Not enough. Otter told the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry convention at Coeur d'Alene it's time to lower income tax rates further. He's still pushing for a total personal property tax repeal that would spread $120 million to the richest corporations in the state.Otter has money to lavish on his corporate cronies because public education is $110 million short of its pre-recession budget while colleges and universities have $48 million less. More here.

Question: Trillhaase ends his section on Otter by saying: "Either Idaho's millionaire chief executive is delusional about this failed economic development strategy or he's become callous to the collateral damage these policies are inflicting on the middle class." Which do you think it is?