Commentary: Utah’s Question 1 is just kicking the can down the road

Like a bad bruise that just doesn’t seem to go away, the debate over funding for public education continues this year in the form of Question 1 on your voting ballot.Question 1 calls for increasing the gas tax by 10 cents to raise about $100 million for K-12 public education, $55 million for local roads, and $25 million for higher education. Question 1 would increase the gas tax rate by 33%, to about 40 cents per gallon (that’s about 59 cents if you include the federal tax).For the s