What conceivable justification is there for the legislature’s proposal to grant a large income tax cut to Utah families making several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

To enable them to add a few thousand more square feet, move further up the eastside bench and ensconce themselves even further out of reach of the drugs, violence, and crime on the valley floor?

What possible rationale can there be for feathering the nests of the wealthy when we have such huge and intractable problems like homelessness, the transparent inadequacy of our public schools to produce good and faithful democratic citizens, and the already obvious economic idolatry of all classes of people in our society?

To enable them to cruise around the Caribbean more frequently while our cities and towns are burning with health, education, and welfare wants? To allow them to send their children to expensive East Coast colleges far away from the parched soil, declining culture, and burial places of their ancestors?

What further proof of the ignorance, disdain, and even malice of the unearned income class than such a measure? We have billionaires in America who have screamed out to Congress, “Tax me!” But there is apparently little sense of such decency and fairness among Utah’s gold-digging aristocracy, that’s for sure.

Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross

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