by Tax Watchdog | Feb 5, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Last week in this column I addressed the challenges of getting the monolith public education system to embrace technology in the classroom. This week I will address the technology issue further and discuss my plan to bring average teacher pay in...
by Tax Watchdog | Jan 29, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Time magazine published in December a cover story which focused on the 21 st Century Classroom. It described Rumplestilskin awakening today from a 100 year sleep. He was absolutely dazed and confused by the technology in our lives. That is, until...
by Tax Watchdog | Jan 22, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson The Utah Legislature has increased state spending at a faster rate during the Huntsman administration than it did during the administrations of Governor Leavitt and Governor Walker, according to a recent analysis by the Utah Taxpayers Association....
by Tax Watchdog | Jan 15, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson One of the fundamental principles of sound tax policy concerns the taxing of business inputs to production. The term “business inputs” refers to purchases that businesses make as a part of their operations. This includes many items such as...
by Tax Watchdog | Jan 8, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson The September special session of the Utah Legislature gave the Salt Lake County Council of Governments (COG) everything it wanted. But in authorizing Salt Lake County to place a new ¼ cent sales tax on the November ballot, the legislature also...