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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 2, The Utah Independent November 29, 1973 The KERSHNER-ROW- E READERS I Independent OUTLOOK &Ubm Deficit Spending Dedicated To The E Morality, and Truth Constitution, Liberty, Dear Editor: E The American people now have habit the of ay Howard Kershner ARTIFICIAL BECOME' GENUINE? Welfare, Those who still refer to Sweden as a Socialist utopia should read a recent U.S. News and World Report article. In it we learn of abundant welfare, taxes taking who stop working in nearly 50 percent of income, people November because additional earnings would be taxed so admitheavily as to make it not worthwhile, students not ted to universities because government people say there would be no available jobs on graduation, students directed to study law, for instance, but upon graduation are told by individual government that no places are open and the should study to become a teacher, only to find four years later that no teaching jobs are available. One student reported studying ten years as directed by government and -- by Tom Breitling favor Many persons who Community Council Form with a for Salt METRO government County Executive, we find Section have Lake County and City 1.05 Formation openly of Local talked about artificial boundaries. Some of those persons who are more well known are: (1) Study Pete Director Commission Grundfossen, (2) State Senator Warren E. Pugh and (3) Professor LeRoy F. Harlow. In the context of discussing this area of Utah, artificial boundaries are such things as the city or town limits within the County, and the between County demarcation incorporated and unincorporated areas. As Senator Pugh has remarked, artificial boundaries can be understood by making clear what are natural boundaries. The Senator then went on to point out that the Wasatch and the Oquirrh Mountains form come? boys and girls, the politicians know this, and since the people of the U.S. don't want to pay more taxes, these crafty fellows (to perpetuate themselves in office) just go out and borrow the money to pay for all these wonderful goodies. This is called deficit financing'' Well, Governmental Units Forbidden. This section states the following: After the effective date of this Optional Plan, no city, town, or local governmental unit shall be formed within the territorial limits y, of except as in this provided Optional Plan, and City-Count- any formation proceedings pending on said effective date shall be forthwith terminated. (End of quote.) Well, so w hat? What am 1 getting at? Just that this is one more reduction in personal or (ilendale. California .All the News t Dear Editor: Within the past 3 weeks I have heard via radio of 2 news items that I can't find in your paper. 1. Marvin Cooley has been sentenced to 3 years and S60(X). What are the facts about this? 2. A San Diego judge has ruled that the 5th Amendment does not apply to the IRS. What are the facts about this case and which case H is it? 11-1- 4, I fjage Independent Subscription Weekly Utah's Largest and 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Fastest-Growin- I I Assorted copies older than 2 20 I I months for $1.00 Subscriptions: $6 per year $8 foreign g 25$ each 5 for $1.00 12 for $2.00 25 for $3.75 50 for $6.50 100 for $10.00 s C. C. Moseley 1 The After concluding a study of the nations mental health for the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare, Dr. Hans Lohmann concludes his report as follows: Social Security is greater in Sweden than in any other country. Still a lot of people experience feelings of uncertainty, emptiness and discontent. The economy is overstrained, and we cannot continue to set aside increased funds without making other commitments suffer. Yet absenteeism continues to rise, and the number of early retirement pensions is increasing. The Sincerely. America and freedoms which have boundaries, as do rivers and existed from the formation of this canyons. republic up to the present time in on Senator Based Pugh's our own State, one of the basic with freedoms has been the formation of familiar definition, anyone Western geography knows that governmental units. Territories Western states are not divided were formed from geographic along the lines of natural acquisitions, states were formed boundaries. With the Grand from territories, counties were Canyon as a natural boundary, the formed from states, and cities and Arizona Strip would be in Utah. towns were formed from counties. is What, then, the significance of Even today, if Kearns community harping on artificial boundaries wants to incorporate as a city or when discussing METRO for this town, they may do so (so far) and county? believe the answer to that w ill obtain territory from Salt Lake question can be found in the Model County in doing so. Laws which are being used by the As we saw in Section 1.05 of the law the write to commission Model Plan, once METRO study to be voted on in 1974 by a becomes the law in Salt Lake referendum of voters. Referring to County, you must take all your Model Optional Plan No. 4 ontmuedon ! spending So you see. Virginia, we "... only-getwhat we pays for.! governance. Looking back at the history of natural This comes pretty close to government deciding who does what and is a long way down the road toward the authoritarian state. and community freedom which is a natural consequence of METRO government still no job in sight. beyond tax income. This borrowing is the sole basic cause of inflation'', defined as the decrease in value of money.' It has ruined the dollar and increased taxes to pay for the interest. or I I Please report in the next issue. As a subscriber I would like to get all the news. Sincerely, Mark Baum, M.D. Editors Sote: Edward Rowe SOCIALIST UTOPIA IN SWEDEN Environment, etc., etc. I hese fellow Americans, same however, are putting up a terrible howl because their taxes are getting higher and higher. Everything is costing more and more - isn't it. How iui DO w programs and handouts tor Social Security, Health. Education. BOUNDARIES expecting givea government Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free." WHEN COMMENTARY Emergency Wards of our large hospitals are overloaded, and the queues are growing steadily, especially for psychiatric care. Investigations show that 25 to 40 percent of the population needs psychiatric treatment. We are better and better off, but we feel worse and worse. The reader of the article will learn also that equalization has proceeded to the point that some managers are paid no more than clerks. Incentive is destroyed. What is the purpose of increasing ones skill to earn a promotion, if it carries no increase in income? The very competent and reliable U.S. News and World Report has done our country a real service in bringing this information to the attention of the American people. Living Issues, 7960 Crescent Ave. Buena Park, California 90620 So would we! History Reveals Dear Editor: A historical look at federal expenditures reveals that the federal government will spend more in the first ten months of this fiscal year than it did in the first 153 years of national existence. In just the last twelve years, operating costs of the federal government s. have increased by Numerous new federal programs have been financed with huge deficits. As a result of uncontrolled two-third- federal spending, the nation's third largest The UTAH INDEPENDENT Name Address 1 expenditure is the billion interest in staggering our national debt which is rapidly approaching SI 2 trillion. Over 70 per cent of the lederal budget lor this fiscal year is commitments of contracts and obligations made in prior years ocr which Congress I he now has little control. appropriations of Congress have far exceeded our present tax structures ability to pay. S21 Continued on page 3 U( t I Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith O I Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled ; M Kj t again with the yoke of bondage. -Galatians, V'i |