Government overreach is a new priority in 2024 for the Utah Priorities Project. Overreach can be defined as governmental interference in ways perceived as counterproductive or in matters outside governments’ defined limits at either local, state, or national levels. Government overreach may also be linked to a fundamental distrust of government and disagreement regarding what it should protect. Three in five voters consider government to be wasteful and inefficient. On top of that, nearly three in five Utahns think it is not the government’s job to protect people from themselves.
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