PROPERTY OWNER WRITES ON TAXES How extremely high taxes tues avea 1 have uve a effect on home homeowners homeowners homeowners owners Is presented In the follow following ing log to The Standard Standard- Standard Examiner ExamIner from Kimama Idaho Editor Standard Examiner Standard Examiner Just Justa a line or two to let you know I Iam Iam am a reader of o your paper and en- en enjoy en enjoy jO joy reading the editorials editorial Having read your piece on heavy taxes in your Issue of o August 3 P I 1 want to let you know that I agree with you ou that the tax on Ogden city 1 Is too high In 1922 1322 I 1 bought a home In Ogden The The tax that year was wag In 1923 It was 1924 and 1925 You will see the tax has been going up n every ery year I have not lived In the place but bought It with the Intention of living In It some day I was born bornand bornand bornand and raised In Ogden and my fa- fa father fa father ther and mother also My father was ws a great believer er In Ogden and andI andI andI I am too but I cannot see whereS where S a man gains any anything thin b by owning his hi own home if It the taxes are going up every year as they have been My property Is on a paved street I gave gave oyer over for tor the place dace and over for the pa pay paying ing log and doubt very Cry much if It 1 could get out ot of It what I have put In la I have been wondering why some gome of ot the gasoline tax could not be diverted to this use Instead of a large part of ot it going to the state slate as I understand it now does It you care to you may publish this or dr r use it in any way you OU see tit fit I wanted to let you know that I for tor one am with you for lower taxes F G 0 Paine There you have figures to prove Drove how serious this tax tax boosting pol pol- policy policy policy icy has grown to be Our Out public officials too often leap eap In the dark They sanction work for or which the they have no funds except through Increased taxation and they act without thought of the tremendous tremendous tremendous dous burden which each increase a taxes will bring to many home There are old people In Jg Ogden en who ho have hue small sums laid away to carry them then through life They have their own homes and aa they see lee the tax rate go higher and higher they are dismayed because there Is a possibility of ot being de- de destroyed de destroyed That Is phase or of taxation which always should be before those who are spending pending the money and fixing the tax rates Business houses In dull periods find dud high taxes a adrain adrain drain which seriously handicaps them them them-s The business man roan should be considered Then high taxes will m drive away prospective Investors Investors All these adverse features should hould be uppermost in the minds of tho thoo e who authorize increases In re i es In the tax rate