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Utah sales-tax revenue soars

Sales tax is up by 13% in the state but UTA needs a tax increase to be able to pay their General Manager his performance bonus.

Is it a bad thing to reward accomplishment. Your "But Not For UTA" jealousy clouds your vision.

Right on! Millions in windfalls over the past three years and they just want more and more and more. Bottomless abyss. Time to move out of places like this with less than mature adult leadership at the helm. They are taxing us into the dirt and supposedly "conservative Republicans". Instead they are spendthrift liberals who never met a tax increase they didn't love. Let's throw them out of office at every level of government in November.

Sales tax on food is the most regressive and unfair tax in the country. Most progressive states like California, Colorado, Oregon, and Wyoming don�t charge tax on food. The narrow minded Politian�s in Utah are a bunch of tax and spend conservatives or should we say liberals.

And it's long past the time that Utah sales taxes should be fully eliminated on food from grocery stores. The sales tax is a regressive tax, weighing heaviest on those among us who can least afford. I'm trying to tell that Sen Valentine these facts, and urging hime to vote out the sales tax on food. toute suite, yesterday, asap. No arguments, no delaying negotiations, no political deals. Just do it!

Isn't California thinking about filing for bankruptcy again? Maybe they should start chargin taxes on food.

Drop the food tax, even California doesn't tax food.

I pay more taxes here in Utah than I did in California. Everything is taxed from food, to non-food items, to car tax, to club memberships to Costco and Sams Clubs, What Gives Utah? Where are you spending all this tax money at?? Are the so called Republicans in this state, Liberal Democrats?

We need to go to Zero based Budgeting, and give the working people a break!

I pay a lot less in Utah than I did in California. Property taxes were a LOT more there unless you bought your house 30 years ago and had prop. 13 protection.

I'm happy to pay the extra tax if it goes to a teacher somewhere in the state.