Urbanboy:
I was having a pretty good day until I read your excerpt from the SL Trib concerning potential tax increases...not for the reasons you think, however.
First, I am so sick and tired of supporting the trucking industry that I would like to treble fuel tax on long-haul truckers. Those guys do not even come close to paying their fair share of road use taxes. They do more damage to highways and bridges than any other segment highway users. I don't care if we have to pay higher cost for goods shipped by truck. Maybe we'll stop relying so much on trucks. As much as possible, long-hauls should be done by rail. At least railroads build an maintain their own transportation infra-structures. About the only thing worse is the barge business, which is totally subsidized by tax payers.
Second, people like Jake Boyer drive me nuts. Companies like Boyer don't employ the vast majority of people. It's small businesses like mine. We are the future of the economy. We do not exist on largess of Redevelopment Agencies, nor sweetheart tax breaks I (Take that Mr. Boyer). We also expect to pay fair share of taxes to provide the infrastructure we need. We also remember that the financial mess we are in right now was caused by large businesses who were screwing everybody. So let's hope the State of Utah is not run like a Bear Stearns or Bank of America or Citi Group or possibly the Boyer Company (I still remember an office bldg. I worked in SLC that was built by the Boyer Co. The only reason we didn't sue the Boyer Co. was because Kem Gardner was running for Governor at the time, and we were afraid he'd screw us in the long term) Utah educates more kids for less money than any state in the union. It also does a lot of other things pretty well. fMaybe the Boyer Co. company should be run like the State. If it were, then its construction projects might result in better buildings.)
I also feel the same way about my own state, Georgia. The State does a pretty good job for not much money. However, California is another story. Nothing should be run like California.
The point is that I am sick and tired of "Holy than thou" business people like Boyer whacking away on public institutions that, for the most part, do a pretty good job. Most of these tirades come from fat cats at big companies who couldn't meet a payroll every two weeks unless they weren't siphoning off taxpayer money one way or another. I am an active Chamber of Commerice Member in Georgia, and I cringe when Chamber Members go off like Boyer did. It gives the rest of us a bad name. And some Chamber Members, like me, want OBama's healthcare plan because it will be the only way we can give our employees decent healthcare insurance. The only people who don't want it are the Insurance Co.'s and the large business fat cats, MBAs who couldn't make a payroll either. Time to tell it the way it really is and get these fat cats to stop supping off the public trough and keep their mouths shut!!!!
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