Show counties countie would be hard hit tax reformers are working on a plan to raise all the state revenues from railroads power companies utilities and mines the plan looks good on paper but would take away the assessed val valuations of these properties from the counties who would lose use representatives would go from the counties countie 3 to get all they could out of the sate corporation tax pork barrel f for or their locality this is in line with the single ingle tax idea and if the gross grosa earnings tax on the above kind of property wall wag made high enough that would result state ownership of railroads and utilities and mines would follow the IS application of the principle that the power to tax is 13 ownership the corporations would pay no property tax in the county where the property is located as is now dons done under the present system of A kitain taxing the corporations taxes mines would all be handled by the state board of equalization and the counties would have no state tax is school districts and road districts cities and counties would have in nothing to do with big interests but would collect of el citizens eizens only the tax reformers say the people did not understand the amendments that were voted da down in at the recent election they say the uninformed no vote is the bane of the initiative system but maybe the people did under stand enactment of a public utility law of the initiative and referendum and promised the pe people all ail the reforms fe forms means higher tabea tax |