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Show ,i 1 i ! . ' j June 28, 1973 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand H'd Better Start kicking! They'll Ride A Willing Taxpayer'. To Death! The4 UTAH DAVIS COUNTY PATRIOT Continued From Page 1 After some three years of The final upshot of their efforts success mingled with more at tax relief resulted in an failure than Lynne ever dreamed "assessment" and the issuance of possible, she came to the hard a summons to court. and brutal realization that They duly appeared before His instead of making a profit, she Honor, Judge Swan's Court of was losing money. She went Law in Davis County. In that broke in the poodle business and hearing Judge Swan ordered the closed out that effort to Wallys to tell the court where supplement the family income. they had money in the bank and That's when Mr. and Mrs. how much, where they had Wally really began to get property and how much, and educated about business life in sundry other things that were modern socialist inclined none of the court's business at ' America. that time. an hired accountant, They Wally attempted to tell the tallied up their losses from their court that he did not owe, the business venture and filed money he was being assessed another tax return. They showed and demanded that he be given a their third year losses on top of fair trial in court before a jurt to two prior years of grief in the decide the justice of the claim. business. They went dutifully to He felt that if he had to pay the work and notified the State great State of Utah more tribute about their experiences in the art for the bureaucrats and their of losing money in American beneficiaries, they should be Small Business today. compelled to prove he really Mrs. Wally's owed the money. According to statement to The UTAH Wally was notified that he called were could not have a trial on the issue Independent, they in for a Utah State tax audit They of whether he owed money for discussed their losses ana taxes. He was informed that all showed to the best of their ability he could do was first to pay the that they were entitled to claim money and then try to get it back tax exemption for their losses, ' later, if he could prove that he just like Nelson Rockefeller does . did not, in fact, owe it. . with his multimillion dollar Wally refused to pay in income on which he pays advance of proof of debt and probably less tax than the Wallys refused on the grounds of the paid on Daddy's income from his Fourth and Fifth Amendment way for him to get out of his difficulty was to hire an attorney, rather than to rely on the advice ! ; of his "psychotic friends" who would "throw him to the lions" when the going got tough: Judge Wahlquist further stated that since Wally had had a previous opportunity to appeal the tax collector's ruling but had not done so at the proper time, it was not opportune to try again in a second court to get out of jail on a habeas corpus appeal. 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A press that supports objectivity can be an objective press, ; as a press supporting chauvinism can be a chauvinistic press, or one supporting honesty can be an honest press; but only a press that supports freedoms and all of freedoms defenders and opposes the enemies of freedoms can be and can remain a ii'i regular job. . To their horror, the State of Utah "Tax Collection Publican Agent of the People" made a frightening claim. . He said that since they had not made any money out of the business of raising poodles, they were not in business at all and were just suffering from a hobby. Since the tax tyrant assumed the privilege of dedding what was a business and what was only a game of "poodle, poodle, who's got the poodle" the Wallys were in real deep trouble. The tax man assessed the Wallys for several hundred dollars plus penalities for back taxes in 1968,1969 and 1970. According to Mrs. Wally's letter to The Utah Independent, they had several conversations with the State of Utah Tax "authorities" in which they tried tp show that they were in fact, in business and that they were truly entitled to claim exemptions for their costs. All to no avail. rights of privacy and immunity from testifying against himself. So he was slapped with a Contempt of Court assessment of five days in iail. And he went dutifully to jail like any other patriot would do under the circumstances. The next act in this new drama of legitimate protest for illegal , government activity was played totin Davis Court when Wally's ' friends filed a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the court of judge Wahlquist. That hearing was a most news worthy event. Mr. Wally appeared as his own attorney. He was notified that his two friends, John Grismore and Don Kynaston, who were there to help him, could sit in court and advise him, but that they could not address the court under any drcumstances. According to reports of spectators who were in durt. Judge Wahlquist went on to explain to Mr. Wally that the best : of economics says it was the man who invented the cotton gin that got us in the shape were in today. He says this invention made possible more, and ( which . cheaper , clothing, . enabled folks to, ,, change same more often and smell better, which encouraged . ' - y . SUPPORT FREEDOMS DEFENDERS 1 Independent Page 5 ' .more closeness: and consequent .increased N propagation, and promoted longevity by- eliminating cootie hivens. - Which energy on brought , food, and-- . environmental crises due to a plethora of people . that ; the inventors of the auto and ' the Pill ' have not yet . managed to overcome: sr I,.-ft- j - ; j It looks like nowadays that we are a little short on people in the news business who formerly were called "reporters. This species was never very numerous because it takes some intelligence to gather and report facts and, the intelligent telling of facts usually requires some backhanded commentary: actually, |