After the creation of a task force that didn’t understand its task, a listening tour where no one listened and the drafting of a tax reform package that doesn’t meet any reasonable definition of reform, the Utah Legislature has been called into an unwise special session Thursday to consider a measure that almost no one who isn’t a lawmaker supports.
No one, apparently, but Gov. Gary Herbert, who apparently wants to begin the last year of his long public service by signing a bill that would make the state’s tax structure harder on those who can least afford it even as it takes millions of dollars away from the part of state government — education — of which he has long been a champion.