An editorial in a Montana newspaper asks that profound question:

It is perplexing why Montana voters chose to kneecap two lines of business, when it would obviously cost a lot of jobs at a time when the state’s economy is already struggling.

We have to wonder if voters really understood the ramifications of passing initiatives 161 and 164. Did they somehow miss the fact that a minimum of 32,000 Montanans are already unemployed?

People will always vote to make something cheaper.