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The Truth About Utah’s New Voucher Laws

by Tax Watchdog | Mar 19, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles

by Howard Stephenson I’ve always supported means-tested education vouchers because they are a good deal for taxpayers, parents, and students. Choice allows parents to find education options that are best suited for their children. Competition improves the quality of...

For Utah Legislature, it’s the best of times

by Tax Watchdog | Mar 12, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles

by Howard Stephenson It’s easy for elected officials to be generous when the economy enables taxpayers to be generous. But the real measure of fiscal conservatives is when elected officials provide permanent tax reductions and keep spending limits intact. Record...

Legislature enacts record tax cuts, record spending hikes

by Tax Watchdog | Mar 5, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles

by Howard Stephenson One of the biggest victories for taxpayers at the recently concluded General Session of the Utah Legislature was passage of SB 223 – the omnibus tax cut package – which enacted eight different tax cuts totaling $219 million including a...

Utah Continues Mediocre Ranking in Small Business Survival Index

by Tax Watchdog | Feb 19, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles

by Howard Stephenson Utah ranks 26th among the fifty states and District of Columbia for small business survivability, according to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council); a non-profit small business advocacy group which has more than 70,000...

Time for Education Technology and Paying Teachers What They’re Worth

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...

Time to Bring Public Education into the 20 th Century

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...
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