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2008 Enterprise Articles

• Tax Foundation President predicts federal tax reforms in near future -- June 29, 2008
• Property Taxes: Utah vs. California -- June 22, 2008
• Utah’s Tax Burden Increases but Ranking Improves -- June 15, 2008
• Utah K-12 per student expenditures increase a whopping 7.3% in FY2007 -- May 19, 2008
• Municipal telecom in Provo takes a turn for the better – UTOPIA should follow suit May 5, 2008
• Action-packed conference to focus on outcomes of recent Utah legislature, future economic issues -- May 5, 2008
• Blame Federal Energy and Agricultural Policies for Spike in Food Prices -- April 28, 2008
• Claims of 2008 income tax hike inaccurate -- April 14, 2008
• Utah Legislature passes nations best privatization law -- March 31, 2008
• UTOPIA and iProvo face serious financial problems – Is a fire sale imminent? -- March 24, 2008
• Tax Cut Era Comes to an End -- March 17,2008

2007 Enterprise Articles

• The cost of smaller class sizes December 31, 2007
• Will Granite School Board say no to RDA abuse? December 24, 2007
• Legislative Fiscal Analyst releases first annual Government Assistance Expenditure Report -- December 17,2007
• Utah Property Tax Revenues Increase 10.4% in 2007 -- December 10, 2007
• The myths of public education or why education needs politics -- December 3, 2007
• Utah Property Tax Revenues Increase 10.4% in 2007 -- November 26, 2007
• States Increase Spending Transparency -- November 12, 2007
• Utah Should Switch to a Defined Contribution Retirement System -- October 29, 2007
• Audit Shows Salt Lake County Council of Governments Avoided Life Saving Transportation Projects -- October 22, 2007
• Competition in the education marketplace will improve teacher compensation and profesional respect -- October 15, 2007
• Why one of Utah's most prominent millionaires supports vouchers -- October 8, 2007
• The Effects of Truth-in-Taxation in Controlling Utah Property Taxes -- October 1, 2007
• Understanding Utah Property Taxes -- September 24, 2007
• Utopia fast becoming outdated even as more cities look to sign on -- September 17, 2007
• Vouchers: Introducing the power of the marketplace -- September 10, 2007
• Immigration VII: Adopting Private Sector Solutions -- September 3, 2007
• Immigration VII: President vs. Congress – an employment train wreck -- August 27, 2007
• Immigration VI:  Immigrant workers and the hospitality industry -- August 20, 2007
• Immigration V:  Industry Labor Needs Persist While Congress Refuses to Fulfill Its Constitutional Mandate Regarding Immigration -- August 13, 2007
• Immigration IV:  National security is threatened by illegal immigration in more ways than one -- August 6, 2007
• Immigration – Part III : The Growing Costs of Identity Fraud -- July 23, 2007
• Immigration Part I: Utah’s economic need for workers -- July 9, 2007
• The Battle for Individual Liberty and its Steady Erosion. -- July 2, 2007
• Arguing against vouchers requires sleight of hand -- May 28, 2007
• Get ready for confusion and lawsuits regarding implementation of education vouchers -- May 13, 2007
• Tax Burden of the Typical Utah Family -- April 16, 2007
• " Pay to Play” is the key to solving Utah’s transportation crisis -- April 9, 2007
• Time to fix Utah’s punitive corporate income tax -- April 2, 2007
• Impact of Recent Tax Changes on Utah Families -- March 26, 2007
• The Truth About Utah’s New Voucher Laws -- March 19, 2007
• For Utah Legislature, it’s the best of times -- March 12, 2007
• Legislature enacts record tax cuts, record spending hikes -- March 5, 2007
• Utah Continues Mediocre Ranking in Small Business Survival Index -- February 19, 2007
• Time for Education Technology and Paying Teachers What They’re Worth -- February 5, 2007
• Time to Bring Public Education into the 20 th Century -- January 29, 2007
• State Spending Accelerates -- January 22, 2007
• Tax Business Outputs, Not Inputs -- January 15, 2007
• Did Salt Lake County COG and Utah Transit Authority hoodwink voters and the Legislature? -- January 8, 2007
  

  
  
  2006 Enterprise Articles
• Governor Huntsman's Proposed 2008 Budget -- December 27, 2006
• 2006 Redevelopment Agency Reform Fails First Major Test -- December 11, 2006
• Statewide Property Tax Revenues Increase 7.2% in 2006 -- November 27, 2006
• Transportation Reform: The Case for Congestion Pricing -- November 20, 2006
• Summary of Tax-related Issues on General Election Ballot -- November 6, 2006
• Record Spending, Revenues, and Rainy Day Funds Mean it's Time for Serious Tax Cuts -- October 30, 2006
• Education Funding and the Surplus -- October 23, 2006
• City Creek Center - No Tax Funds Requested -- October 9, 2006
• Utah Rainy Day Funds at All Time High -- September 25, 2006
• Jordan School District's $9million belong in the classroom, not in a soccer stadium -- September 18, 2006
• State Spending Approaches Statutory Spending Cap -- September 11, 2006
• Special Session Schizophrenia: $70 million income tax cut to be offset by $50 million sales tax hike? -- September 4, 2006
• September Special Session Is a Bad Idea -- August 28, 2006
• Main Stream Media Continues to Promote Liberalism, Oppose Conservatism -- August 21, 2006
• Revenues Understated, More Stadium Evidence, New Fees Punish Taxpayers for Mistakes of City Fathers -- August 14, 2006
• Republican Utah legislators have given up to the Democrats their mandate from the voters -- August 7, 2006
• Time to follow the law in State School Board election -- July 31, 2006
• Is $900 million property tax hike best spent on light rail or roads? -- July 25, 2006
• Taxpayers won the first round, but the soccer stadium subsidy fight is not over -- July 17, 2006
• Two Legislators, School District Employee Honored by Taxpayers Association -- July 10, 2006
• Economic illiteracy is a threat to liberty everywhere -- June 26, 2006
• Charter Schools are Reinventing Utah Public Education -- June 19, 2006
• School Districts Bond Elections Galore - $633 Million -- June 12, 2006
• Speakers at Tax Conference Call for Changes in Tax Policy, Education, Spending Caps -- May 29, 2006
• Pro-Stadium Article in Enterprise Gets it Wrong -- May 22, 2006
• Restoring Rule of Law - Immigration Reform -- May 15, 2006
• Big Property Tax Hikes Spell Defeat for Local Officials -- May 8, 2006
• Utah Taxpayers Association Issues 2006 Legislative Scorecard -- May1, 2006
• Charter School Spending Still Trails Districts -- April 24, 2006
• Utah ’s Ranking in Education Funding Misleading -- April 10, 2006
• Citizens should speak out to prevent nuclear fuel rods from coming to Utah -- April 3,2006
• Utah Taxpayers to Provide $41 Million Subsidy for Stadium -- March 27, 2006
• Back with a Vengeance: State Government Spending Increases 17.6% -- March 20, 2006
• The Legislature has more work to do - Others looking at Utah and Huntsman -- March 13, 2006
• No Excuses, Just the Facts -- February 20, 2006
• Is the Legislature Arrogant, Power Grabbing, as the Media Claims? -- February 13, 2006
• It’s Time to Cut Taxes in Utah -- J anuary 16, 2006
• While even liberal states are moving toward public-private competition, Utah has been reluctant to opt for privatization -- January 9, 2006
• Some of the Dumbest and Smartest Quotes by Public Figures During 2005 -- January 2, 2006

2005 Enterprise Articles

• Tax Expenditure Budgeting - A bad idea -- December 26, 2005
• Tax Reform Task Force, Interim committe propose 30 bills and resolutions to cut taxes by $300 million -- December 19, 2005
• Disruptive Technologies in a Flat World part 2 -- December 12, 2005
• Disruptive Technologies in a Flat World part 1-- December 5, 2005
• Statewide Property Tax Revenues Increase 6% in 2005 -- November 21, 2005
• Task Force Proposed to Study Privatization and Government Competition with the Private Sector November 14, 2005
• Business taxes Really do Matter- Eagle Mountain solve financial woes -- November 7, 2005
  Tax Reform Proposals go on the road- Much left to be done by November 30-- October 31, 2005
• Legacy Highway Compromise- Good deal for taxpayers - Lets keep it alive -- October 24, 2005
• Federal Highway Bill Filled with Pork -- October 17, 2005
• Families are benefited most by policies which grow the economy, not by social engineering -- October 10, 2005
• USU Van Accident Illustrates Need to Amend Governmental Immunity Act-- October 3, 2005
• Is the Judiciary overstepping it's Constitutional bounds? -- Sept 12, 2005
• Governors Student Achievement Group Says the Best Teachers Should Be Paid More -- September 6, 2005
• Your late summer reading list just got better -- August 29, 2005
• News is not all it seems to be: Case in point -- August 22, 2005
• Streamlined sales taxes to become effective in many states on October 1 -- August 15, 2005
• Utah Charter Schools Spend Less Per Student than District Schools -- August 8, 2005
• Salt Lake City ’s Small, Simple High School Initiative Gaining Momentum -- August 1, 2005
• A Flat Individual Income Tax & Single Sales Factor for Utah Corporate Income? -- July 18, 2005
• The 900lb Gorilla is Losing Weight -- July 12, 2005
• Should Utah Taxpayers Subsidize a Major League Soccer Stadium?  Part 2-- July 5 , 2005
• Should Utah Taxpayers Subsidize a Major League Soccer Stadium?  Part 1-- June 27, 2005
• The Utah State Tax Commission’s Criminal Investigative Unit goes after those who don’t pay their fair share -- June 20, 2005
• Summary of 50-state Property Tax Report -- June 13, 2005
• Colorado-type Taxpayer Bill of Rights would reduce structural imbalance in
  Utah ’s budget -- May 30, 2005
• Business Tax Incentives Face Greater Scrutiny -- May 23, 2005
• Utah Tax Reform Process Underway -- May 16, 2005
• Holladay City RDA Grants $13.6 million in Subsidies to Project Which Was Already Underway!-- May 9, 2005
• Taxpayers Association Recognizes Five Utah Leaders -- May 2, 2005
• Redevelopment agencies were created to reduce blight, not open space -- April 25, 2005
• Legislature needs to finish the work on two important bills: Drug Offender Rehab, Highway Funding -- April 18, 2005
• Bulk of Sales Tax Exemptions Are Not Business Related -- April 4, 2005
• Why does the credit union tax debate continue? -- March 28, 2005
• Legislature establishes six task forces, lists study items for interim committees -- March 21, 2005
• Utah Legislature should pass Drug Offender Reform Act -- March 14, 2005
• Recap: Legislature spends additional $592 million, cuts taxes by $8 million -- March 7, 2005
• The Basics of Social Security Reform -- February 28, 2005
• Who is this Governor, Really?-- February 21, 2005
• RDA Damage to School Districts: $48.8 million in FY2005 -- February 14,2005
• Taxpayer-funded soccer stadium would be fiscal madness -- February 7, 2005
• New Temporary Legislative Offices Produce Changes --January 31, 2005
• Valentine says tax reformers should not assume government deserves all the money it gets -- January 17, 2005
• Legislature to consider RDA reform -- January 10, 2005
• Ballot Initiatives -- The safety valve is being used against those it was intended to protect -- January 3, 2005

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2004 Enterprise Articles

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2002 Enterprise Articles top

• Recipe for Tax Hikes-Deal with Budget Shortfalls by Borrowing . . . -- December 30, 2002
  
• Salt Lake County Ambulance Service Would Be A Mistake -- December 23, 2002
  
• American's Ignorance of Justice System Makes Courts Scary . . . -- December 16, 2002
  
• Pressures Mount for State Government and Counties to Hike Taxes -- December 09, 2002
  
• Utah Legislators Seek to Make Initiative Process More Difficult . . . -- December 02, 2002
  
• Elections are Over, Revenues are Down--It's Time for Some Humor -- November 25, 2002
  
• Time to Remove Property Tax Subsidies for Water -- November 18,2002
  
• Legislative Elections Yield Super-Majorities. . . -- November 11, 2002
  
• Campaign Spending Limitations, GOTV Campaigns . . . -- November 5, 2002
  
• Voters Face Six Constitutional Amendments on the Ballot -- October 28, 2002
  
• Initiative 1 Should Be Defeated for Its Utter Lack of Merit -- October 21, 2002
  
• Utah Does Indeed Have a Long-term Funding Plan for Education -- October 14, 2002
  
• Local Governments getting into the Business of Business -- October 7, 2002
  
• Best-Selling Author Tells Utahns What's So Great About America -- September 30, 2002
  
• A Case Can Be Made That Enron Proved Capitalism Works -- September 23, 2002
  
• Students Across Utah Take Time to Consider Freedoms -- September 16, 2002
  
• Taxes Consume 28% of Typical Utah Family's Income -- September 9, 2002
  
• Utah Ranks 11th Among 50 States -- September 2, 2002
  
• Dumb Things Are Said About Why Tax Increases Are So Wonderful -- August 26, 2002
  
• Top 1% Pay More Than One-Third of Total Federal Income Tax -- August 19, 2002
  
• Time to Speak Out on Tax Hikes, Appeal Property Taxes -- August 12, 2002
  
• Property Tax Subsidies for Retailers Continue to Hurt -- August 5, 2002
  
• Employers Rate Effectiveness of Utah Schools -- July 29, 2002
  
• Utahns Escaped Tax Hikes During Budget Balancing - For Now -- July 22, 2002
  
• Petition to Tax Envirocare Fails - At Least For Now -- July 8, 2002
  
• July is the Month to Celebrate the Sacrifices of Our Forebears -- July 1, 2002
  
• Governor's Employer/Education Coalition: Systemic Change Needed -- June 24, 2002
  
• Truth-in-Taxation: Important Taxpayer Protection -- June 17, 2002
  
• Overcoming Widespread Constitutional and Civic Illiteracy -- June 10, 2002
  
• Legislature Protects School Budgets -- But Some Educators Don't Notice -- June 3, 2002
  
• Economist Says Taxes Hurt Economic Growth -- May 27, 2002
  
• Three "Friends of the Taxpayer" Receive Recognition -- May 20, 2002
  
• Public Employee Unions Wield Power -- May 13, 2002
  
• Initiative to Push Taxes on Envirocare, Misguided, Shortsighted -- May 6, 2002
  
• Turning Utah's Economy Around -- April 29, 2002
  
• Tax Freedom Day Comes Earlier Due to Federal Tax Cuts -- April 22, 2002
  
• Today Federal and State Income Taxes are Due -- April 15, 2002
  
• Despite News Hype, Policy Makers Showed Wisdom in Handling Budget -- April 8, 2002
  
• Legislature Already Begins to Draft Legislation for Next Year -- March 25, 2002
  
• Preventing the Next Economic Train Wreck -- March 18, 2002
  
• Legislature Ends Without General Tax Hike - Election Cycle Begins -- March 11, 2002
  
• Time to Make Bulk-emailers Pay Their Own Ways -- March 4, 2002
  
• The Important Message from the Salt Lake Olympics: Utah Works -- February 25, 2002
  
• Tobacco Tax Hike - A Bad Idea - February 18, 2002
  
• The World Is Welcome Here - Now, and After the Olympics -- February 11, 2002
  
• The Politics of Politics on Capitol Hill -- February 4, 2002
  
• Dangers Abound in Self-Called Special Legislative Sessions -- January 28, 2002
  
• 1/4 Cent Sales Tax For the Homeless -- January 7, 2002
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