Rep. Harper Quotations

It is in recognition of what people value, for those who give so much for the community and country. When you give the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the community or this country, you deserve some recognition.

What should the tax policy be for the state of Utah in conjunction with sales tax? Sales tax is a state tax and it should be imposed and managed by the state.

Yes, two of our (business development) bills didn't make it ? not part of the (tax cut) compromises between House and Senate leaders.

The option to pick one system or the other would start Jan. 1, 2007.

We want to encourage businesses who have employees here and export products. We should give them the ability to choose which kind of tax formula they want to use.

A third-degree felony changes a lot of things. I'm not comfortable with that penalty.

I have some heartburn with maybe doing some partial or full property tax shifts on this. It's become pretty apparent to me as I've been dealing with this ... there will be more states over next few years going to a unified statewide rate because of problems they're experiencing with their sales tax. We have states now above 12 percent with sales tax with most of their consumable goods.

I really believe it's appropriate and important for us to do this.

This is a great chance for the state to move to a progressive tax system.