Utah’s governing and business elites are doing their best to convince Utahns that the state’s tax system must be modernized. However, their solutions are to do more of the same rather than doing something really innovative, such as implementing a lottery and online sports betting.
For example, the Salt Lake Chamber — dubbed an “Enemy of the Taxpayer” by Americans for Tax Reform — is the driving force behind imposing a sales tax on services, as that option allows their big business members to further socialize their costs while privatizing their profits by shifting the tax burden onto low and middle-income Utahns and small businesses.