The Utah Experiment


Good idea, just reduce taxes too
Well, obviously I am having problems uploading still.

But I really liked this article (HT Becky Chandler).

We believe the federal government is attempting to do far more than it has the capacity to execute well. Congress has inserted itself into every aspect of our lives with laws and regulations that don't fit the widely divergent nature of the states and localities. The job descriptions assumed by President Obama and Congress have grown far larger than their ability to deliver.

We'd like to relieve some of their burden.

We don't believe that 535 members of Congress and the president can educate our children, provide health care, pave our roads and protect our environment as well as the nation's 8,000 state legislators and tens of thousands of local officials.

So please, let us help. Let's select a few programs - say, education, transportation and Medicaid - that are managed mostly by Utah's government, but with significant federal dollars and a plethora of onerous federal interventions and regulations.

Let Utah take over these programs entirely. But let us keep our portion of federal taxes Utah residents pay for these programs. The amount would not be difficult to determine. Rather than send this money through the federal bureaucracy, we would retain it and would take full responsibility for education, transportation and Medicaid - minus all federal oversight and regulation.

Obviously it's not a perfect solution. To start with I'd like to see Federal taxes for those items reduced between a quarter and a third. Only that isn't how the system is set up, is it? You don't know how much of your tax dollar goes to what.

Still, it's worth telling people about.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - February 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM  Tag


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