Momentum for Budget Reform in Utah
Real budget reform is finally starting to come to Utah. Instead of constantly raising taxes, its times to take a hard look at what taxpayers fund every year.
Reforming the Annual Tax on Business Supplies
Meaningful reform to the tangible personal property tax was achieved via HB 231.
Didn’t We Leave Prohibition Behind?
Earlier this week the Deseret News published an op-ed from the Sutherland Institute advocating some rather odd policies with regards to alcohol. Clothed in a cloak of “compromise” were the following proposals: Allow...
Utah Sales Tax Reform: Better Now Than Later
As the economy continues to become more service-oriented rather than goods-oriented, Utah needs to adapt by taxing services and reducing overall tax rates. The result could mean a net win for Utah taxpayers—something for which we...
Bolstering Utah’s Public Defenders
Besides over-criminalization and a massive increase in the number of people who enter the criminal justice system, funding for public defenders has been a major problem.
Why are local governments competing with private business?
If true demand for any of these recreation or entertainment activities actually exists, then private providers most often will respond if given the opportunity.
Elections Have Consequences – What’s Next for Utah?
What happened here in Utah other than sending Mitt Romney to Washington and that Ben McAdams may have beat Mia Love?
More Obamacare on Your Ballot
Runaway healthcare costs are the gift that the federal government wants to keep on giving. The gift this year for consideration? Medicaid expansion, which is on your ballot in the form of Prop 3.
An Alternative to Raising Taxes to Fund K-12 Education
With steady tax increases in Utah, it's clear that the state doesn't have a revenue problem—it has a spending problem. Here's something that can help.
Utah’s Question 1 is just kicking the can down the road
If more money is truly the goal, then let’s stop kicking the K-12 education gas can down the road. Question 1 merely perpetuates a problem—and it certainly isn’t a solution.