by Tax Watchdog | Oct 28, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Last week this column focused on reasons to vote “against” Initiative 1, the measure that would impose new, punitive taxes on one Utah business. This week’s column will explain why you should vote “for” six important...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 21, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Lt. Governor Olene Walker has launched an all-out effort to get people to the polls this week. She is joined, at least officially, by both major political parties in the campaign. They’re using the old fashioned appeal to our patriotism to...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 14, 2002 | 2002 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson A common criticism of the Utah Legislature is that it has refused to implement a “Long Term Funding Plan for Education.” This complaint is often made during the election season to give the impression that public education is not a high...
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...