by Tax Watchdog | Jul 28, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson For years Utah’s business community has resisted proposals to privatize the state’s Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) because of fears that total privatization would raise premiums, remove it as Utah’s insurer of last resort, and...
by Tax Watchdog | Jul 14, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Utah has been named the number one “financial steward” in America, followed by Georgia and Delaware according to a USA Today analysis published in June. The report named Utah as the best financially managed state in the nation. The...
by Tax Watchdog | Jul 7, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson During the past two years the private sector strenuously fought to stay alive and the Legislature struggled to resolve $700 million in budget shortfalls. At the same time heads of seven departments of state government freely gave bonuses to half...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 30, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Legislative budget trimming didn’t make a dent in Utah school spending in 2002, according to a report just released by the Utah Taxpayers Association. Utah’s total spending per student for the year that ended June 2002 increased 8.2% from $5,762...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 23, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson We’ve all heard urban legends from time to time. These are sensational stories which are purported to be true, but contain little truth. They are often used to get people upset. It was once popular to spread urban legends through chain letters....
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 9, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Two weeks ago I reported in this column that Utah ranks 27th among the fifty states and the District of Columbia in the Seventh Annual Small Business Survival Index. The SBSI ranks the fifty states and District of Columbia using 20 indicators...
