Show I UTAH SHOULD BE DE CAREFUL Enough new boards and avd commissions commissions commis commissions commis- commis are proposed at f the coming session o of the legislature to require hundreds of thousands ollars additional ad ad- additional tax mone money S m Utah Utah has bee been fortun fortunate te fh I 1 i the p past in having fewer of these c commissions com commissions com com- m- m missions than her neighboring Pacific Pacific Pae Pa Pa- e Coast states fit t California Oregon and Washington Washing Washing- ton are advertised the United States over over as having the highest taxes of any states in the Union Tl Their r taxes taxes taxes tax tax- es are more than double and and on one of the state Is nearly treble the ge gen era eral average for the U. U U.S. S. S and in in making the average the e high rate of these three I states is included Why are their taxes so high Simply because they have all the burdensome expense of government caused by innumerable boards am an anc commissions city city- county count and and state stat and only a limited population to pad pai x the bill S f 1 Much dr drastic legislation has beet been beel I passed in in ih these se states to regulate industries which had barely got p ii a foothold 1 Bi High h taxes a and nd such policies have ha haVe e greatly retarded the nie investment of capital T The The le states have have had they the y fun of passing the laws an and supporting support support- supporting ing boards and commissions b but l the th they j have bad had to pay the bill hill 10 The big thing the politicians failed tan fail ed to pass was a a. a bill bil requiring ca capi capital ital ital i- i tal to invest and as a matter of fact that was the one bill they could l riot Ot pass the they could regulate the inv investor investor s- s I tor out of business and drive him a away way with high taxes and drastic drastic legislation but but they could not make him put his money where conditions were unattractive f f r Now the tide has turned and the thelast thelast last two elections the people h have ve voted down every radical measure on the ballot and the main fight isto is isto isto to cut down overhead and t taxes es eliminate unnecessary commissions and pass no more industry kU killing ing legislation In fact they are going farther and asking the repeal of freak laws now on the statute books Before Defore it Is too late Utah should take warning from her sister sister state state and not pass legislation that will check the golden stream now po pouring ring Into the state Everything within reason must bedone be bedone bedone done to encourage our industrial l' l development de development de and nothing should bedone be bedone bedone done to discourage it One Investor employing 50 men much more to the Il a dozen new nev office holders Utah can can afford to go slow y and I profit by the exper experience e of others |