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Show them forward must realize they t choice of which wav they waut highlights of the sales tax study. Pretty heavy going, admittedly, a lot of figures and facts, but information you should have if youre going to discuss or cuss the Utah sales tax which most of Here ai e the PAGE TWO jews-our- udia 9cx na ; Brigham City, Utah A Semi-Weekl- Friday, August G, 1948 Newspaper Successor to NEW' THE BOX ELDER 189G1 S (Established and THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL (Established 1909) William M. Long, Editor Charles Claybaugh, Business Manager Mrs. Gladys H. Johnson, Advertising Manager Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations, Utah Stale Iress Association Published every Wednesday and Friday arid entered as Second Class Matter at the post office In Brigham City, Utah, under ihe act of Match 8, 1879. Subscription Rates- Box Elder County $4 00 a year; outside Box Elder County, $5 00 a year. Single copies 5 cents. us, from time to time, enjoy doing. Utah has collected a total of $83,000,000 in sales and use tax since the sales tax was first adopted in 19.53. The State of Utah collected $12,639,721 from the general sales and use tax in the fiscal year ended June .50, 1918. This was $1,48:5,967 or 1 o" more than in the fiscal year 1917. Sales tax collections in 19.14, the first year of the 2'; tax, totaled $1,708,955, rising to a pre-wpeak of $1,511,211 in 1941. For the fiscal year 1917, the sales and use tax produced 28 " of total Utah State tax hard to understand what the kids or, as the educators and always term them, comic books. But just pick one start see who looks at it and up, scanning every panel and reads every balloon, thoroughly Its revenues. Utah derives a smaller of total state taxes from the sales and use tax than do sixteen of the twenty-tw- o other states which have a sales tax. West Virginia gets 47' of total state taxes from the sales tax Michigan, 43'', and Missouri and Washington, 42''. The sales tax was adopted in Utah in 1983 to meet a crisis in public finances arising from heavy property tax delinquency whicn the depression years. accompanied A Grower Gives His Opinion Until 1939, sales tax revenues were divided by the Utah Legislature among schools, Well, we were right about one thing, apparthe State General Fund, and public relief ently. When we said we didnt know anything about the fruit marketing situation, we and welfare. The 1939, 1911, and 1943 Legiswere right. We were right, too, in antici- latures earmarked all sales tax revenues for welfare purposes. The 1915 and 1947 Legispating that someone who did know somelatures brought the sales tax back under thing about it would set us straight. Early Wednesday morning we found a legislative control, again dividing the revenues among the State General bund. State note on our desk which said: Part of the Alf Olsen says fruit grading scare is all Building Fund, and Welfare. . . . sayes tax placed in the General Fund was . . . (the word means misinformation) Utah fruit has been U. S. graded for 30 appropriated to the schools by the 1945 years. Just a move to put on state police Legislature. force and cost producers an extra six cents Out of the total of $85 million that the a bushel for state grading, and forcing pro- sales tax has produced, $59.2 million has ducers to market through government-supervisegone directly to welfare assistance and adSalt Lake City produce exchange. ministration, $9.2 million to the General U. S. A. C. and extension service are back Fund, $3.0 million to welfare institutions, of the move, not producers or shippers. $700,000 to the Health Department, $4.2 million to state building funds, $1.4 million to public schools (not counting General Fund appropriations to the schools made possible Those Sales Tax Pennies by sales tax revenue), and $1.3 million to the Theres no question about it, sales tax is a State Tax Commission for costs of collecting terrific bother. Its a nuisance for the mer- the tax. The remaining $5.4 million is inchant to collect and report, and a nuisance cluded in the present balance of the Emer(and expense) for the customer to fork over gency Relief Reserve Fund. every time he makes a purchase. In ten of the twenty-thre- e states which Is the sales tax necessary? Well, the levy a sales tax, the entire revenue is placed state of Utah hasnt any great reserves, in the general fund of the state. Only three although the sales tax fund does show a states, Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah, earmark a major portion of sales tax revenues balance of well over one years take. it The Utah Foundation, a study for welfare purposes, and four other states of taxation and the effect of state and local earmark a smaller part of the sales tax for government costs on the economy of Utah, welfare. Sales taxes are also earmarked in has got out a report on the disosition of part for school purposes, county aids, property tax reduction, and other purposes by a sales tax in Utah. few of the states. During the jieriod of Utah sales and use GO 19:53 million Elimination of sales tax tokens is orne of to from hr 1948, tax, nearly of the 85 million dollars collected has gone the proposals under study by the Utah Council. for welfare assistance and administration. - d non-prof- Ijeg-islati- ve Stockmen answer howls at the high price of meat with the explanation that the cost of living has risen for livestock, too. (And dont say that aint hay!) Sometimes we wonder if the big daily papers particularly delight in reporting trouble and conflict of all kinds, or if the rest of the world, outside our own little community, really does hae all that trouble, all the time! So many appliances now are on the market to lighten the burden of the housewife, about all that is required any more is that she be an expert electrician, mechanic and plumber. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Not my bones, anyway. If they could just have a year or so without strikes or wrecks, probably the automobile industry could catch up. So what? If A lot of people accused of having had a head start got it for themselves by using same. someone to t A ' ! People who wait for w to eat Growing girls are more inclined between meals than growing boys, For growing boys, theres no such thing as between. ed m 4 With prices where they are, the moie favored form of greeting these days is to Hello. People are getting sensitive the word Hi. see in comic books, viev.ers-w'ith-alar- Mellow Cello Played Smel- l- their go into the Every now and then you run of actually sort of person whom you suspect hunting for a lost cause, whenever himself without one. to One wav for the parents of several s what see is to run down keep their weight a younghear the matter every time they ster crying. RmPEH ar lor-- e we could have a year or so without expenses, probably we could get solvent ! push Danny Kaye fiiMles with etli tlie poor violin family. desire to be a inuneian is a hangup This bull on the sitting A Sonj U Horn, m his latest role in Samuel Goldwyns Pity n professor of swing music. Virginia ilavo and nations leading band leaders play top roles in this RKO Radio,, with rnW bv Tpfhnifnlnr portrays nothing as Miss Hosse stepped from a plane at the Omaha muFilipino Guerrillas Get nicipal airport. Shotwell, a forVeterans' Benefits mer infantry private, had paid transportation by plane U. S. her MANILA (UP) The from the Russian zone. They army has recognied 260,715 Filihadnt seen each other in three pinos as war-timguerrillas, entitling them to American vet- years. Miss Hosse speaks no English. erans benefits. The men and women were sift- Shotwell speaks little German. Well learn to talk togteher, ed from more than 1,200,000 Were getting Shotwell said. claimants. married soon. Army field investigators covered the entire Philippine archipelago before the claims were Mother decided. Tons of personal doc- Radio Set uments and official records To Pheasant Chicks were checked. Hundreds of thouNo sands of persons were interviewABERDEEN, S. D. (UP) ed. one at the municipal airport Veterans beenfits will be paid was surprised when two pheasto the guerrillas on the basis of the number of months or years ant chicks popped out of a radio they took part in active opera- cabinet. tions against Japanese occupaFourteen days before, a pheastion troops. ants nest had been destroyed by a mower and the hen pheasLove's Language Laughs ant killed. The two remaining eggs were At Speech Barriers placed in the radio. The warmth OMAHA, Neb. (UP) The lan- of the tubes was enough to guage of love was sufficient for hatch the eggs. 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