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Fully fund USTAR request

This money is largely going to waste. It has become a slush fund for higher-up administrators in the state and needs more accountability and specificity. Just wait, the first audit will show how mishandled these funds have been.

Is this another case where government is getting into the business sphere? Where are our conservative Republicans?

The conservative republications, many rural of course, by and large support USTAR because their communities will benefit the most. From what I've read about USTAR, oil reserves in eastern Utah near Vernal, projects in Price and areas further south, have already benefited with many new companies racing to get in on the energy and exploration, as well as the carbon projects. USTAR helps our entire state.

Face it - we are not in a manufacturing economy anymore - we are in the knowledge economy. And I salute those who are willing to modestly invest in it now te reap huge benefits for us all, later. This is smart business - thank you!

What I am hearing you say is that Conservative Republicans are willing to give up on conservative principals when they can profit from doing so.

It still sounds to me that USTAR is a government entity providing a private service to certain businesses while being funded by the Utah taxpayers. While Liberals might want to do such a thing, conservative people would not.

Hey Bob, I'm a conservative and I think a bedrock principal of conservatism is that incentives work.

It's the libertarians who believe that government money should never go to such 'foolishness' as USTAR.