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Show I CITIZENS COMMITTEE OPENS BATTLE ON "DEATH TAX" Opening the campaign againt the proposed pro-posed "death tax" on chain store, No. 2 on the November ballot was started this week, when the Citizen's State Committee Against No. 2 charged that the drastic propo. al would cost thousands of Utah families an average of $120 a year in higher living costs. The charge contained in a booklet titled "No. 2 is tax on you," published by the committee com-mittee with funds contributed by chain store employees and stockholders. Copies are to be sent to libraries, newspapers and other agencies for the publics information on the actual workings of ,thc law. By driving out chain store competition, through the device of extra tax reaching in some circumstances up to $5,000 a year per store, No. 2 would at once raise the cost of living, according to the charges in the book. The chain store tax, lobbied through the 1941 legislature by a small but powerful group of interested parties, and referred to the public through unprecented petition bearing bear-ing 54,000 names, is directed against a group of only 123 stores out of some 6,000 retail stores in Utah. The. booklet recalls that the chain stores asked for a postponement of the referendum until after the war, so that all merchants could devote themselves to a united effort, but this proposal fell on deaf ears. |