What would I do with $150 Million?
May 12th, 2005 | 2 comments
Salt Lake County has a $150 million dollar tax surplus.
County government officials are flush with excitement as the determine how to spend the money.
I have an idea.
How about a tax cut?
Of course ‘tax cut’ is the dirty six-letter word in Utah politics. Addicted to money like a smokers to nicotine, Utah politicians love to spend, spend, spend.
It works like this.
You take all of your hard earned money, put it in a basket and the politicians here will take whatever they want. Never mind that it’s your money. Never mind that coffers at both the state and local level are overflowing with surplus money. Politicians here view it as their money — not yours. Money that they need to use to keep their political cronies happy. That’s why Utah has the ninth highest tax burden in the nation.
A tax cut in Utah?
It will never happen.
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Oregon ranked 36th, and we’re a bunch of liberal pinko commies up here! Figure that one out.
Jason
Now that we are in our 50′s we do not see much sense to working overtime or trying to make more money, because all we do is put most of it into their coffers. It makes more sense to downsize, economize and try to live on less, do more things for ourselves! I know of others in our age group who are thinking the same. There are quite a few out there in fact, retired early to live in motor homes, 5th wheels, etc and enjoying their lives a whole lot more. We hope to do that ourselves in a couple years. Things do not bring happiness anyway and we really can live with a lot less stuff than we think we can!
Elizabeth