At a time when infrastructure is jeopardized, citizens are facing a 30% increase in heating costs, Many Utahns are without health care, and educational systems are floundering, Utah Rebpublican legislators have proposed a $230 milliontax cut. This amount is four times more than Governor Huntsmans recommended cut (already an impractical measure, in my opinion).
The people who will see the “benefits” of this cut, if it passes, are not the working people. Further, if this cut passes and the following year sees a big tax increase, it will not be the wealthy that feels that increase. It will be the people who were never benefited from the tax cut of the year before.
It’s a lose-lose situation. Our budget should be taking surplus funds and funds that would be given back in the form of tax cuts and allocating them to much needed services that would benefit everyone.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 