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Show WAYS TO COMPETE I have been told that the people in Duchesne County are obligated to cooperate with the largest city in the county because it provides so many services ser-vices for them. This seems very strange when you consider that the businessmen in this community charge money and, in fact, make a profit from most of these services. I have always considered that a person selling his goods or services should feel grateful grate-ful to his customers for the business they give him. Perhaps I am a little old-fashioned in my thinking. Perhaps the really modern thing is to expect the business, bus-iness, and to have the customer grateful that you are willing to do business with him. The sales tax bill that was before the last legislature, legis-lature, which would have distributed the 12 cent optional sales tax to the people in the county on a population basis instead of a point of collection basis, as it is now, is a good example of how many businessmen business-men expect not only the people's business, but their taxes as well, to help the businessman's particular community to grow. Incidentally, this bill was defeated de-feated with the help of some of our local politicians, and costs Duchesne County several thousand dollars per year. I hope that we in Duchesne City never fine) it necessary to do harm to the county as a whole in order to compete. While it may not be necessary, nor even desirable for Duchesne to become a large city, it is important to everyone in this area that it become large enough to provide doctor, hospital, dental, and many other services that are vital and important. This would have a definite impact on the value of property, not only in Duchesne, but in the surrounding area as well.. A man who says he cannot afford to make any more mistakes has already quit trying! |