Tuition tax credit on shaky turf

Let's see now. Robert Enlow, executive director of the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation, clearly a proponent of tuition tax credits, writes an opinion piece in the Jan. 19 Deseret Morning News stating that Utah's support for tuition tax credits is solid.

In the article, he states that a pollster can sway the results of a poll by the wording he uses. Then he illustrates how the Friedman Institute's poll, with its carefully chosen wording, showed great support of tuition tax credits. Duh!

Also in the article he makes a big issue of getting the "whole picture," and in the same breath implies that public outcry against Gov. Olene Walker's veto of a tuition credit bill cost her her job as governor. He ignores the fact that Gov. Walker not only vetoed that final bill, but vetoed or threatened to veto every voucher bill to be presented while she was governor and still left her post with one of the highest approval ratings ever given a governor leaving office.

Fred Ash

Sandy