Top-notch editorial in this morning's Salt Lake Tribune, lamenting Monday's "thumbs-up" State Senate vote on Sen. J. Start Adams' meat-headed Senate Bill 270, which "shift[s] the [food tax] burden from [the Senate's] own overloaded brains to the overburdened shoulders of Utah’s poor and working classes." Here's the full editorial for those who'd like to read up:
Being the curious type, we Googled. And for our equally curious WCF readers, here's the list of State Senators who voted "aye" on the bill and failed to "accept the heavy lifting of budget-balancing themselves, rather than tak[ing] the easy way out by dumping it onto a great many families who cannot fight back."
Take careful and indelible note, Gentle Readers. Three Weber County Senators, Christensen, Jenkins and Reid are prominent among this cold-hearted and short-sighted group.
"Perhaps more political leadership will be found in the House... or the governor’s office," as the SLTrib editorial board gently suggests.
Update 3/3/11 6:17 a.m.: The Salt lake Tribune now reports that
"[o]pponents of doubling the sales tax on food won a surprising victory Wednesday, persuading a committee to kill — by one vote — the House version of the proposal." "But more battles loom" with Sen. Adams' aforementioned SB270, which still needs to have a stake driven through its heart, as the House enters the last 7 days of the 2011 legislative session: