tax increase

This bill would amend the renewal process to bypass the voter approval provision.
This bill makes permanent a tax that was supposed to expire this year.
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.
Another year, another proposal to increase taxes — and this time, it’s a group called Our Schools Now asking Utahns to raise their gas taxes in the form of Question 1 on your voting ballot.
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.
Utah had half a billion tax dollars in surplus. But the money was quickly spent, and then followed by a tax increase. Why?

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