year after standing on the ever-expanding shore of the dying Great Salt Lake
At a whopping $28.37 billion, the proposed 2024 fiscal year budget is the largest in Utah state history. The budget also appears to call for setting aside $132.9 million toward addressing the drying Great Salt Lake, in addition to investing $217.9 million for statewide conservation in the hopes of benefiting the lake in the long term.
The proposed budget calls for spending roughly $463 million on direct investments in rural areas of Utah. Part of that price tag includes funds for housing in rural areas, including $2.3 million in funding for the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund, which provides no-interest loans for single-family homes in rural areas.Cox’s blueprint takes an aggressive approach toward debt reduction, allocating nearly $1 billion for that purpose.
Cox’s proposal calls for $143 million in ongoing spending and $34 million in one-time spending to beef up compensation for state employees.
Are they going to raise taxes
They are probably using that extra money the government gave them for the pandemic they never used.
Setting higher spending precedents are completely unwarranted. Voters voted no on increasing special session spending, and the attitude should be applied across the board. Cox’s proposals for all this free and subsidized pork is unsustainable!
Spendy!
I thought we hated big government in Utah?
And it’ll be wasted on nonsense. Roads, education, the Salt Lake…they’ll continue to be ignored.
I actually don't want to give special assistance to certain categories, as important as nurses, firefighters, police, and veteran are. Any funds expended should be tied to local zoning reform. Repeat after me: light density!
More people and higher prices. The government feels inflation too.
Discounting population growth since Jan 2021, this is about $8500 per person, or $708 per person per month. Utah has a rino infestation
Promising to pay teachers more and actually doing it are two very different things.