Issue Position: Taxes and Reform

Issue Position

I spent nearly 30 hours collecting signatures in support of the Tax Referendum for many reasons.

The tax reform bill that our legislators and governor put into law is anything but simple.
In 2018 Utah voters rejected a non binding opinion question that asked whether the Utah Legislature should raise the gasoline tax by 10 cents a gallon. Despite our voice against a tax increase they included a gasoline tax increase in this bill.
The tax bill included taxes on many, but not all services.The government should not be in the business of deciding winners and losers.
Utahns do not want a food tax. We do not want to tax people on this most essential daily need.
Supporters of the bill told us that tax revenues have declined. The actual problem is that the bureaucracy has grown $7 billion dollars (30%) over the past 5 years. Sales tax has actually increased over 7% year over year for the past 3 years in part because the state taxes Internet sales.

The Cache County GOP Platform includes the following: "The combined burden and complexity of Federal, state, and local taxes are too severe. Republicans support tax reforms at each level, including reducing tax rates, simplifying tax rules and reports, shifting taxing authority from the Federal to state and local governments, fully disclosing all taxes imposed indirectly through businesses, and limiting taxes by popular vote and constitutional law."

Not only do we need to start completely over on a tax reform, we also need new representation that will listen to the voice of the people and follow our values for a simplified government that learns to do more with less.

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