This year’s legislative session ended with Gov. Gary Herbert and legislative leaders singing a kind of tax-bill funeral dirge for HB441, the complex tax bill introduced in the final weeks of the session.
Yielding to a firestorm of public criticism, the mourners, all with confirmed solemnity, pronounced the tax bill dead — at least, for now.
But everyday Utahns who stopped the bill were made to feel like they had simply misunderstood. Yes, the bill was highly complex, and, yes, it would be a massive change, difficult, and in some cases grossly unfair, but it was the only way to solve Utah’s tax problem.