Letter: Let them eat cake?
(Francisco Kjholseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) On March 14, 2019, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert speaks during an interview on the final day of the legislative session at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.
Seth Jarvis states it well in his Dec. 11 letter to The Public Forum. Utah never had a budget surplus, but instead a shortfall of funding for much-needed services to Utah’s most vulnerable citizens.
What about funding for Medicaid expansion that Utah legislators have continued to reject even though Proposition 3 was voted on and passed in the 2018 election? What is currently being proposed is not a tax cut for the underserved but instead a tax increase for those who can least afford it.
Would our governor have them eat cake?
Craig Weir, Millcreek
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