As the Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force looks at ways to change Utah’s tax structure, Voices for Utah Children is speaking up on behalf of the next generation with two messages:
1. Our tax structure should be fair to lower-income families and avoid taxing them and their children into — or deeper into — poverty.
2. Our system of taxation needs to generate sufficient resources to make the wise upfront investments in our children today that will position them — and our entire state — for success in the future.
Here I will focus on the second of those two priorities and address the key question: Is our current tax system generating the revenues necessary to invest in our children and in the foundations of Utah’s future prosperity?