Days after a House committee smothered a bill to slightly increase the state’s income tax rate and raise an additional $420 million a year for public education, a Senate panel approved a measure that would net a comparatively paltry $75 million annually by boosting a statewide property tax levy.
The bill that was killed would be a much better idea, both in terms of ends and means, than the bill that is still alive. The Legislature should approve the lesser bill anyway. It is probably all our elected representatives are willing to do to fulfill the goal that everyone in Utah who isn’t an elected official lists among their top priorities: Better schools.
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