On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I am quicker to leap than others. I will go back to > hoping UTOPIA gets to my neighborhood sooner than later and I will be even > more wary of the Utah Taxpayer Association on this and other topics.
I'm not so sure you leaped prematurely. The UTA is closer to the truth than the UTOPIA apologists. The apologists' arguments are old, tediously repetitive, and inevitably wrong. >From the beginning, UTOPIA hasn't passed the smell test. To see how misguided it is, one need look no further than the original 20-year mortgage. If someone today offered you a free copy of today's most powerful computer, would you take it if it meant you couldn't use any other computer for the next 20 years? How about 30 years? But that's what UTOPIA does: it saddles citizens with 20 (or 30) years of debt obligations on something with a lifespan of a decade, at best. And like most government programs, those who pay vastly outnumber those who benefit. If the news reports are to be believed, UTOPIA has failed to meet its own objective measures. (Shock!) And those objective measures were supposed to be conservative. It's a boondoggle, plain and simple. When is enough enough? All IMHO, of course. :-) Chris /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
