Editorial Board: 'The 2023 edition of the Utah Legislature rolls into town Tuesday for its annual 45-day dash. It will all happen really fast, so we all need to pay strict attention.”
Work is carried out outside the house floor at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 4, 2022, during the final day of the Utah Legislature’s 2022 general session.The 2023 edition of the Utah Legislature rolls into town Tuesday for its annual 45-day dash. It will all happen really fast, so we all need pay strict attention.that — current and projected — could approach $5 billion. That may sound like a good thing, and it could be, depending on the decisions lawmakers make.
There are, of course, many other states that would love to have the problem of too much money. But money without a governing vision can lead to some very bad decisions. The Utah Constitution earmarks all funds raised from the state income tax for education and social programs. That account is particularly flush right now, having finished the last budget year more than $1.2 billion in the black. We could pour every dime of that into public education and Utah would still be scraping the bottom on a list of states ranked by per-pupil spending.
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