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Show 1 ' Thursday, July 19,1979 5 Page 13 Utah Foundation Government Budgets Expected To Tighten Because of tax and expenditure expen-diture limitation legislation enacted by the 1979 Utah Legislature, local units of government and the state of Utah will have to undergo considerable budget tightening after this year. This was the conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, Foun-dation, the private research organization in an analysis of HB 303, which was approved ap-proved earlier this year. According to the study, if the limitations had gone into effect with the 1967-68 fiscal year, cumulative state and local savings in Utah over the following ten years' would have amounted to $674 million. By 1976-77, total state and local taxes would have been reduced by $160 million per year, or 19 percent per-cent below the amount actually ac-tually collected. Such a reduction would have necessitated much closer scrutiny of spending priorities, and some activities ac-tivities and services currently curren-tly performed probably would have been reduced or eliminated. When the limits become Hatch Vote Hit "Senator Orrin Hatch's vote against the proposed Constitutional amendment for the direct election of the President was very disappointing, disap-pointing, both in terms of fairness and common sense," sen-se," charged Dale Lambert, newly elected Demoratic State Party Chairman. "The Electoral College presents the possibility of a person becoming President even though he receives fewer vtes than his opponent. op-ponent. I believe that most Americans recognize that this would be extremely unfair un-fair and would undermine the credibility of any President so elected," Lam-Jjert Lam-Jjert added. I "Public opiiiion polls for the last ten years have consistently con-sistently shown that 75 percent per-cent of the voters favor the direct election of the President." Although Utah has a slightly higher percentage of representation in the Electoral Elec-toral College than its population represents "the difference is inconsequential," inconsequen-tial," Lambert explained. "In fact, the Electoral College could easily work against Utah's interest. If Utah gave a Republican candidate a 50,000 vote margin but Colorado gave a Democratic candidate a 5,000 vote margin, the Democrat would still get more electoral votes when the two states were combined. com-bined. "Of course, the problem is magnified when a thin victory vic-tory in New York or California Califor-nia would mean more electoral elec-toral votes than a landslide in Michigan," Lambert continued. con-tinued. "Senator Hatch criticized the proposed amendment because it would change the Constitution, but this criticism doesn't seem to concern him when he is talking about Constitutional spending limits," Lambert observed. The voters originally choose Presidential Presiden-tial electors directly, just as delegates are elected to political conventions. However, circumstances have changed because the people now vote for the Presidential candiate directly direc-tly on the ballot. Medical Hypno Therapy Steve Franzen M.S.WY For Information Call 1-783-4611 (Kamas) effective, state appropriations ap-propriations will be allowed to rise by not more than 85 percent of the percentage increase in-crease in the state's personal income. For local units, the increased ceiling in local taxes will be equal to 90 percent per-cent of the increase in per capita personal income with an adjustment for local population changes. These limits will have the effect of gradually reducing the proportion of Utah personal income going for state and local taxes. Foundation analysts point out that a major problem in implementing the limitation plan will be the difficulty in developing the basic data (such as local population statistics) on which the limitation will be based. Responsibility for developing these data rests with the legislative fiscal analyst. Another problem, accor- ding to the Foundation, is ' with respect to application of the law to local school ! districts. Because a substantial substan-tial portion of the total local school tax levy is the 24 mills required for participation in the basic school program, districts with rapidly rising , assessed valuations will be : adversely affected by the limitation provisions. In some instances, application of the limitation formula could completely eliminate the capital outlay program of a local district. Although the 1979 Utah Legislature did enact this statutory measure which places a lid on state spending and local taxes, it did not approve ap-prove a resolution to limit expenditure increases in Utah by constitutional means. Many tax and expenditure ex-penditure limitation proponents contend that such a constitutional amendment amend-ment is needed to prevent special interest groups from forcing a breach in the established limits. They claim that constitutional limits are necessary to prevent government from taking an ever-larger share of the total economic pie. Critics, on the other hand, argue that a constitutional spending limit expresses a basic distrust of representative represen-tative democracy and tends to destroy the flexibility required by government to deal with continually changing problems. It therefore becomes difficult to meet sudden emergencies when government spending limits are locked in by a constitutional con-stitutional amendment. . The new statutory limitations will become operative in fiscal years after af-ter December 31, 1979, for local units of government and after June 30, 1981, for the state of Utah. Thus, the limits will be applied to counties and specified special districts with the 1980 calendar year, to municipalities and other local units with the 1980-81 fiscal year budget, and to the state with the 1981-82 fiscal year budget. July Saturday Kimball Art Center SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 21 Children's Day in the Gallery. Co-sponsored Co-sponsored by DCE & KAC $10 each, reservations only 9 a.m.-2 p.m. KAC Gallery Concert: American String Teachers Association presents a Youth Concert, co-sponsored by University of Utah's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) and the Kimball Art Center, 3 p.m., reception follows. Free. 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