The backers of a proposal to put an income tax hike on the 2018 ballot in order to raise money for Utah’s schools say they’re tired of waiting for lawmakers to act.
“We would welcome legislators to do it. They can do it more surgically and do it in a better way than a ballot initiative,” says former Utah House Speaker Nolan Karras. “We’ve been working for the last four or five years on this, but we just concluded that this is too big of a lift for the political folks, so we need to take it to the citizens.”
Karras was a guest on the “I Have Questions with Bryan Schott” podcast. If the “Our Schools Now” proposal passes, it could put an estimated $750 million annually into Utah’s public school system. That’s still nearly a half-billion dollars less than where Utah schools were a couple of decades ago according to a study by the Utah Foundation.
Karras says their proposal is just addressing the reality of Utah’s education system.
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