Policy Analysis

With no evidence to indicate that mandated vehicle safety inspections lead to fewer car accidents, this burden on Utah drivers should be eliminated.
Property should not be taken from Utahns who haven’t been charged with—let alone convicted of—a crime.
Like police and prosecutors, juries should be made aware of their power to use discretion in determining whether a criminal case should proceed.
As with other government programs, freedom-minded individuals have strong reason to be skeptical of the government’s power and practice of executing people.
Taxpayers pay the Attorney General to defend the law, but when a law violates our rights, they should reimburse private citizens who successfully overturn it.
A new EPA rule could let federal regulators control puddles, ponds, and ditches on Utahns’ private land—threatening property rights and the state’s economy.

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