On the same page of The Salt Lake Tribune I read that the Legislature is looking to slash Proposition 3, Medicaid expansion, worried about “long-term costs,” while proposing a $225 million tax cut.
Prop 3, which our citizens want, will serve the most vulnerable, people who have very little and will not benefit from a tax cut. The $225 million tax cut was not something the citizens asked for, and will only benefit those who have plenty all ready.
The $225 million would best be spent for Medicaid, as was voted for, or given to education for funding for more school counselors or school nurses. Right now the state requires one counselor for every 350 students, and the secretary at your child's school is giving him his medications.
I don't see how the legislators can give the "haves" a $225 million tax cut, and ignore the needs of the the vulnerable.
Ruth Hoffmann, Salt Lake City
