So it goes with tax reform. The reforms made now end up being part of a longer process. And significant reform isn’t easy, nor it doesn’t always win friends. As Thomas Jefferson once put it, “Politics … holds up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”
The particulars of the current tax reform were wide open for debate, with the necessity of a tax cut, the sales tax on food and education funding among the most contentious issues. But I would submit that most Utahns are tax reformers to some degree, even if they don’t know it. To shift from a Jeffersonian to a Jeff Foxworthian approach, consider the following propositions.
If you think Utah’s long, seemingly arbitrary list of sales tax exemptions is a problem, you might be a tax reformer.
If you think Utah’s growing list of earmarks unnecessarily ties the hands of policymakers, you might be a tax reformer.
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