Tag: Utah
Tag: Utah
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Utah Re-Named State With Best Economic Outlook: Jonathan Williams On KSL Tonight
Jonathan Williams, ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist, spoke with hosts Leah Murray and Greg Skordas of Utah’s KSL Tonight about the success of…
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Utah Has Best Economic Climate in Country, New York Worst: ALEC on Fox News
ALEC Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Policy Jonathan Williams was featured alongside economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore in a Fox News article highlighting Utah’s…
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ALEC in Deseret News: How Utah has had the nation’s best economy for 15 straight years
Instead of cowering to mounting pressure from the liberal media and outside states, Utah remained determined to forgo mandates and unnecessary government overreach and instead focused on personal freedoms and Utahns’ ability to make sound decisions
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Video: Western lawmakers fight the Biden Administration land grab
This week, Karla Jones, ALEC Senior Director, Federalism and International Relations Task Force and Catherine Mortensen, ALEC Director of Public Affairs, interviewed Western lawmakers to discuss how they are fighting…
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States Cannot Tax Foreign Income Twice, ALEC Tells Supreme Court
The American Legislative Exchange Council filed a brief, amicus curiae (friend of the court), with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case entitled Steiner v. Utah State Tax Commission. The…
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Utah’s Truth-in-Taxation for Property Taxes
Truth-in-Taxation is Utah’s most taxpayer-friendly law. In some ways, it’s even better than California’s Prop 13. The measure was enacted in 1985 at the request of the Utah Taxpayers Association…
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Utah State of the State: Acting Today with the Future in Mind
Even with the modest changes to property taxes and a possible increase in the gas tax, Utah’s overall pro-business status remains unrivaled. Economic growth and jobs growth over 10 years are 5th highest and 3rd highest, respectively. Perhaps Utah has indeed “become that shining city on a hill for our nation.”
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State of the State: Utah
The governor cautioned against “altering our tax policies in any way that could damage our robust economic engine.” He also advised that the “best way to ensure ongoing growth of education funding is to continue to grow our economy. Failure to take into account how tax rates affect business investment won’t help us make good policy decisions.” Indeed, the relatively low top marginal personal and corporate income tax rates (18th and 11th lowest, respectively) are partly responsible for Utah holding the top economic outlook for 10 consecutive years.
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Battle for Bears Ears
Utah Congressional leaders such as like Senator Mike Lee, Rep. Rob Bishop, Rep. Chris Stewart and Rep. Jason Chaffetz are trying to address unreasonable federal overreach.