16 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, August 23, 2007 Should liigliway users pay The Chambers of Commerce Com-merce in Davis and Weber We-ber Counties have joined hands to back another proposed pro-posed sales tax increase for transportation. Their proposal is just the latest in a string of sales tax increases in-creases designed to raise more revenue for transportation. trans-portation. While this proposal will raise additional revenue, it will also exacerbate the problem it's designed to solve. The problem is that sales tax revenue and road use are completely unrelated. unre-lated. Each time a person buys a pair of $100 sunglasses, sun-glasses, the proposed sales tax would dedicate one more quarter for transportation. transpor-tation. When spending $100 on sunglasses, nobody cares Don't be taken in by these types of hearing aid offers. Check the boccoin tint, written guarantees and after delrcrv service. Our Premise: Utah's Best Hearins Value! 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If balance falls below JlO.OOO a $10 charge will be aueued. for highways? family, the cost of a house NAPSI- There are so in Murray, Midvale or Her- many tasty pie recipes to riman looks prohibitively make, it's easy to go ba-high, ba-high, when compared nanas" over baking. One with Santaquin, And since of the all-time American the family doesn't feel the favorites is made, with the cost of building more lane versatile banana, miles that cost is hidden Besides being the most in the sales taxes he pays popular tropical fruit to eat on the lumber to finish as a snack, bananas are a their basement from their surprisingly versatile bak-perspective bak-perspective Santaquin is ing ingredient. For exam-less exam-less expensive. pie, mashed bananas are a In the short run, that kind of accounting may work, but it has natural fee. It provides a strong in-limits. in-limits. How many lanes centive for drivers to avoid can 1-15 accommodate the roads where their por-around por-around Point of the Moun- tion of that $350 million just tain? That's hard to say, turns into exhaust, but the number is not in-fi- Rush Hour Pricing uses nite. Relying on sales taxes an even finer aim to elimi-to elimi-to build roads just encour- nate congestion. Utah's ages more and more driv- highway system works ers to live in Santaquin and well 20 hours per day. Dur-work Dur-work in Salt Lake, meta- ing the morning and eve-phorically eve-phorically speaking. ning rush hours, however, Whether those costs are cars crawl along, rather paid for in gas taxes, sales than zipping from exit to taxes, rush hour pricing, or exit. Rush Hour Pricing some combination thereof, simply requires drivers to the costs are paid. But the pay a fee to drive on critical behavior driving those highway chokepoints dur-costs dur-costs only changes when ing rush hour, drivers f eel" the cost. Some drivers will drive The Legislature should during off-peak hours; oth-increase oth-increase the gas tax by ers will simply use alter-$0.25 alter-$0.25 per gallon, and si- nate routes; and yet other multaneously decrease the drivers will use transit or income tax by an equal carpools. In all of these amount. Utah should im- cases, the highway's exist-plement exist-plement "Rush Hour Pric- ing capacity is expanded, ing." Raising the gas tax Programs similar to those by a quarter per gallon we're proposing have ex-will ex-will raise approximately isted for decades in Singa-$350 Singa-$350 million per year. By pore, London, France and directly relating the cost Spain, of gas at the pump to the The inevitable initial re-costs re-costs imposed by driving, sistance gives way quickly the gas tax becomes a user once the programs are in place, because everyone Advantage OA O APY For Balances of $250,000 or more FDIC Going bananas over baking can get where they want to when they want to. By contrast, con-trast, the Chamber of Commerce's Com-merce's preferred option of increased sales taxes will only encourage the choices that create more and bigger traffic jams. ABBEY 0 ROAD W Spring Aeires Arts tPairti 620 S. 1350 E. Springville Tickets $10.00 Tickets are available at the Springville City Offices, online at www.sprmgville.org or 0 ... (y s M ) i great fat substitute, lending flavor as well as bulk to a recipe. Bananas are best for baking bak-ing when brown spots have just appeared on the skins-. skins-. they should be flecked with brown spots but not blackened. black-ened. Flecked bananas have a sweeter taste than yellow-colored yellow-colored ones, but either can be used. Want to speed-ripen bananas? ba-nanas? Place them in the microwaye. Pierce with a fork on the outside and microwave mi-crowave whole, in the peel, for a minute and a half. Right before using in a recipe, mash them well with a fork so they retain texture and some chunks. Don't blend them smooth in a blender. This can cause baked goods to become too dense and rubbery. This recipe for Banana Cream Pie using corn syrup and corn starch will remind people of the delicious pies they enjoyed for dessert growing up. Karo, a natural sweetener, sweeten-er, is pure corn syrup made with real vanilla to ensure the best quality. Corn starch thickens sauces and pie fillings fill-ings with satiny smoothness and glossy appearance. Banana Cream Pie Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 10 to 15 minutes min-utes Chill Time: 2 hours Makes 1 (9-inch) pie 14 cup sugar ! 2 tablespoons corn starch 18 teaspoon salt 2 cups milk 4 egg yolks 14 cup light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1 to 2 medium bananas 1 prepared graham cracker crack-er pie crust or baked pie crust (recipe follows) at fa MS " Whipped cream, optional Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt thoroughly in a heavy saucepan or top of double boiler. Whisk milk, egg yolks and corn syrup together; add to sugar mixture mix-ture and stir well to combine. com-bine. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly until-mixture until-mixture comes to a boil, about 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and butter. Slice bananas into bottom of pie crust. Pour filling over top; let cool 10 minutes. ' Cover with plastic wrap and chill several hours or overnight before serving. Top with whipped cream, if desired. . This fabulous Banana Cream Pie can be an easy , no-bake recipe, but if some: one prefers making a pie: crust from scratch, here is. a recommended recipe for a; homemade baked crust. ; Homemade deep-dish pie: crust recipe: ; In food processor, pulse 112 cups all-purpose flour; 14 teaspoon salt, 14 cup: cold butter and 14 cup vegetable veg-etable shortening until in large crumbs. Add 4 to 5 tablespoons ta-blespoons cold water; pulse until mixture starts to form a ball (do not overmix). Shape dough into round disk; cover with plastic wrap and freeze for 10 minutes min-utes until easy to handle. Roll dough into 11-inch circle cir-cle onto floured surface; fit dough into 912-inch deep-dish deep-dish pie plate. Prick bottom and sides with tines of fork. Turn edge under and flute. Bake at 400F for 10 to 12 minutes or until crust is . golden. Cool completely before be-fore filling. For more recipes and baking tips, visit www. karosyrup.com and www. argostarch.com. at the gate. Gates ODen 7 p.m. h