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Commentary: Utah legislators offer tax cuts to their imaginary friends

Asked to use the Yiddish word “chutzpah” in a sentence, many from across the broader American culture might remember Leo Rosen’s line about the person with so much of it that he killed both his parents and threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.

Leaders of the Utah Legislature are planning a major assault on the state’s tax structure. Not only do they want to cut income taxes for the rich and raise sales taxes on the poor, they also plan to end the constitutional restriction that all state income tax revenues flow to public education.