Utah Senate bill would put a tax on carbon to end grocery sales tax and boost transit and development, writes Yoram Bauman.
Utah Senate bill would put a tax on carbon to end grocery sales tax and boost transit and development.| Feb. 24, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
To be blunt, our effort failed because we were a super-grassroots group that didn’t entirely know what we were doing in taking on a giant task: gathering the 120,000 signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot in Utah. We tried to make the ballot anyway. Two volunteers, both with full-time day jobs, gathered over 5,000 signatures each; a third came close to that number. Other volunteers joined the campaign from all over the state, from Logan to Moab to St. George, and came back from signature-gathering shifts with amazing stories. Stories of people running down the street to sign our petition packets.
We say, “Tax pollution instead of potatoes and put the money that’s left over into cleaning the darn air.”
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