It’s all over the Utah news today:
‘More Santa than Scrooge’: Huntsman’s budget buoyed by surpluses, growth
More Santa than Scrooge: Record budget, $60M tax cut
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. on Friday laid out a nearly $10 billion blueprint for state spending that includes record high funding for education and highways – yet manages to include a $60 million tax cut.
In short, the state is wallowing in money.
The articles state that the increases in budgets will go to increased salaries of teachers and other state employees and for roads and buildings, student growth and Medicaid – all worthy causes.
But if there is so much money as to afford a tax cut ( for rich people – they get more money as things become more scarce) why can’t that surplus instead be allocated to much needed services such as heat assistance and other necesseties for the poor and low income?
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 