Slightly more than half of Utahns give President Joe Biden a thumbs up for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, while a majority of residents continue to give his overall job performance low marks.
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Kevin Sargent looks at fencing with his daughter, Emilia, at a Lowe’s in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Sargent will be using his federal stimulus check to pay for the fencing that he is planning to install himself.
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Are Utahns experiencing COVID-19 stimulus fatigue?
Maybe not, but data from a new Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows over half of residents don’t consider the latest, and most generous, round of stimulus checks to be that big a deal.
The survey, conducted by Scott Rasmussen on March 26-31 of 1,000 registered Utah voters, found that 54% of respondents rated the third round of stimulus checks/direct deposits that started going out last month as either “not very” or “not at all” important to their current financial situations. The poll has a 3.1% margin of error.
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The statewide mask mandate may be set to end this weekend, but Utahns will still need to keep their face coverings handy as many businesses will continue requiring them.
And more than 70% of residents say they’re OK with that, according to a new poll.
The majority of Utahns (52%) strongly believe businesses should be allowed to continue requiring masks in the effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic while 19% strongly believe they should not, the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute poll found. Another 19% of residents say they somewhat agree that businesses should be able to keep requiring masks, 8% say they somewhat disagree, and 1% aren’t sure.
Matthew Weinstein: The high price of lower taxes in Utah
The Legislature should have other priorities than ‘the year of the tax cut.’
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In this Aug. 20, 2020, photo, the Utah House of Representatives convenes for a special session of the Legislature at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.
By Matthew Weinstein | Special to The Tribune
| March 1, 2021, 11:30 p.m.
Legislative leaders have said that 2021 should be “the year of the tax cut.” Numerous public opinion surveys show that Utahns disagree. This may come as a surprise to policymakers, who have been in the habit of handing out tax break after tax break for decades. But there seems to be an increasing public awareness that Utah is now paying a price for decades of tax cutting that have left us with the lowest overall tax level in 50 years relative to Utah personal income.