by Tax Watchdog | Oct 7, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson After years of operating in the red, Salt Lake County decided in the early 1980s to get out of the business and contract ambulance services with a private provider, Gold Cross. Now, twenty years later, several County officials and employees want...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 30, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Ten days ago a conservative intellectual from Stanford University, Dinesh D’Souza was in Utah for House Speaker Marty Stephen’s Constitutional Caucus fund-raiser and for a conference sponsored by the conservative public policy think-tank, the...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 23, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Home ownership has long been hailed as a symbol of family independence and self-sufficiency. Today, owning a piece of corporate America through stock ownership has become the next great symbol of prosperity. For years a vast majority of Americans...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 16, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson On September 11, legislators, judges and executive branch officials across the state teamed up with lawyers and went into Utah 340 junior high and high schools to participate with students in a “Dialogue on Freedom.” It was my privilege to...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 9, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson The typical Utah family pays 28% of its income in federal, state, and local taxes according to an annual study conducted by the Taxpayers Association. The study is based on the earnings and spending of a typical Utah family and includes taxes...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 2, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Utah is the eleventh most economically competitive state in the nation according to a new study from the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI), Suffolk University, Boston Massachusetts. “Competitiveness” relates to a state’s ability to ensure and...
