Free Market

The state of Utah recently spent $2.75 million on a contact tracing app as part of the state's efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19. However, a lot adoption rate of the app is proving the investment in the app to be quite costly.
Price gouging laws are preventing more people from having goods they need most, when they are most needed.
What happens when the government competes with the free market to provide non essential services? The practice is all too common and it sabotages both the government and the people.
The Utah Legislature made some substantial improvements to reduce the compliance burdens of the tangible personal property tax on small businesses.
Governor Herbert signed an executive order deregulating telehealth industry in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus.

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