Would Carl Wimmer repeal the charitable donation deduction? The answer to this question will speak volumes about the kind of America he will try to shape if elected to Congress. Recently, the Alliance for a Better UTAH contrasted a statement by state Rep. Wimmer to my prophet’s praise of the LDS Church’s welfare program. Wimmer …
Re the news story “Lee bill would slice tax on overseas profits ” (Tribune, Oct. 6): Sen. Mike Lee has called for a permanent reduction of the tax rate on repatriated foreign profits to 5 percent from the existing 35 percent rate. Defending this change, Lee suggests that the $1 trillion that could be repatriated …
“Gotcha politics” usually refers to the idea of catching a politician saying a few ill-chosen words which are then taken out of context and used against them relentlessly. Lanny Davis — special counsel to President Bill Clinton and friend of President George W. Bush — wrote a book about this whole subject called “Scandal: How …
Q: How many Utah state senators does it take to do the right thing? A: One. And her name is Senator Luz Robles. The Utah Legislature passed a resolution this summer urging Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This has been a pet project of U.S. Sens. Mike Lee and …
Sheryl Allen, former state representative and member of the Constitutional Revision Commission, recently commented on the Legislature’s move, through SB44, to end the commission’s independence (“Election doesn’t make legislators constitutional scholars,” Opinion, June 7). We at the Alliance for a Better UTAH believe that SB44 is a strike against the principles of good government and …
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True or false quiz: 1. Being elected to the Utah Legislature makes you a constitutional law expert. 2. The Utah Constitution can be easily amended and advice from legal scholars is not needed. Of course, the answers to the above questions are false, but in 2011 the Legislature passed an ill-advised bill that indicates some …
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In 2011, Utah earned the distinction of becoming the first state to name an official gun. It’s the Browning M1911, if you happened to be living under a rock during the recent legislative session. Utah is gun-friendly, and much has been done to ease the process of purchasing a weapon, obtaining a license to carry, …
Recently, the Salt Lake County GOP proposed repealing HB116, Utah’s guest worker law. The Alliance for a Better UTAH believes that doing so would be bad for Utah. There are two reasons to repeal HB116. First, it may be unconstitutional. Second, it is unlikely that Utah will obtain the necessary federal waivers necessary to implement …
In a recent 24-hour period, LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson praised the church’s welfare program and urged members to help others, while Rep. Carl Wimmer, quoting someone else, tweeted the following: “It’s wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that ‘compassion’.” We truly live in interesting times. …
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As House Bill 477 heads to repeal, the Alliance for a Better Utah believes that the Sutherland Institute’s Paul Mero got it wrong in contending that texting is a form of “contemporaneous communication” to be shielded from public view (see “Mero Moment: GRAMA and Transparency” at www.sutherlandinstitute.org). The better argument is that in the interest …
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