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Deborah Gatrell: Voters can put the breaks on this regressive tax overhaul

Related Topics: Education Fund, Utah, maintenance

In physics, you oversimplify objects by reducing them to a single point in space or a simple shape. A cow is reduced to a uniform sphere of milk. (That’s the running joke.)

This is what Utah legislators pushing the SB2001 tax reform package have done: reduced a complex 238-page tax overhaul to broad statements detached from the realities of life.

There is a seven-page summary of the law available. The scheme has three components: an income tax cut (reducing Education Fund revenue), new sales taxes (increasing unrestricted General Fund revenue), new credits and exemptions (intended to reduce hardships).