Organization asking voters to increase taxes, Curt Webb questions idea

PROVIDENCE – Our Schools Now is an organization asking voters in 2018 to approve a half-percent increase in the personal income and state sales tax rates. Those in the organization claim the plan would raise $700 million dollars more each year for public education.

A local legislator, Republican Curt Webb of Providence, said there is no question that Utah schools need more money, but said the proposal would actually increase the income tax and he’s not sure if people would accept that.

Webb said tax policy is very complicated, and gave an example.

“They also want to raise sales tax,” he said. “If you raise sales tax our brick-and-mortar businesses in the state are disadvantaged by having that, if you don’t have to pay taxes online. The more you raise it then the more disadvantaged they are. That is just one of the slight complications. I’m not sure that tax law is best made in an initiative form.”

Webb said he believes the freedom to do that is much more flexible if done in a legislative session than if done by an initiative.

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