Letter: Could you live on $30,000 a year?
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Speaker of the House Brad Wilson listens to comments on a bill on the final day of the 2019 legislature, Thursday, March 14, 2019.
Dear Utah Legislators:
I respectfully recommend that each of you be required to take part in a workshop where you are presented with a yearly income of $30,000 for a family of four and then asked to create a budget (at current Utah prices), dividing it up by twelve months, and determine how you would allocate the money each month for rent, electricity, heat, water, transportation, clothing, school fees, health insurance/doctor bills, child care and groceries.
This is a real task for many people in Utah’s “wealthy” economy. Such an exercise might help you to pass a fairer and more balanced tax plan for Utah and to raise the minimum wage level.
Maxine R. Haggerty, Salt Lake City
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