Because of various tax changes over two decades, a Utah Foundation study found more than $1.2 billion a year has fallen out of school budgets.
So if Utahns approve the OSN petition next November, schools would still be getting around half of what would have come if lawmakers hadn’t given tax cuts and exemptions over the last 20 years.
Jones finds that it is mainly Republicans who have turned against the proposed tax hike:
— Now 57 percent of rank-and-file Republicans oppose the OSN petition, only 38 percent support it.
— Democrats like the proposal, 75-24 percent.
— While political independents are split – 52 percent oppose, 47 percent approve.
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