I couldn’t help smiling when I read the front page headline in the March 8 Salt Lake Tribune: “Guv, legislators put tax plan on ice.” The subtitle to the headline reads, “After weeks of holding closed-door talks and taking fire from businesses and community, Herbert now hopes to hold a special session by summer.”
Our governor and legislative leaders are wise indeed. “By this summer,” public school educators will have dispersed to summer jobs, career-enhancement classes and family activities. They will no longer have close access to colleagues and the discussions such access facilitates; taxpayers will have forgotten what they paid to the state in state income taxes; and our kids and their teachers will be on summer break, the thorn in business leaders’ sides.