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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand June 3, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 9 COUNTY OFFICES By A CORNER ON Thomas O. Breitling ' By Erma J. Christensen In the concept of new Federalism" county government, as well as city and town governments, are called local government and are considered to be direct subdivisions of the central government in Washington. Also, the new Federalism considers the impact of government upon people to be the most important impact that people should feel; more important than God, and more im- - than portant Thomas O. Breitling religious from the people. They do this with the multitude of public hearings they are required to hold when they accept Federal Revenue Sharing, According to Utah Foundation Research Report No. 351, dated January 1976, Salt Lake County received 56,842,238 from Federal Revenue Sharing in fiscal 1975. This amounts to $14percapita and is equivaknt to a mill levy of 5.76 mills or $5.76 per $1,000 valuation of your property, Since the maximum County mill levy is 16 mills, the equivalent 5.76 mills is 36 of that 16, and is 26 of the combined total of 16 plus 5.76 or 2 1.76 mills. Inorderto get the nearly $7 million, our County government must function as agent of the Federal government and follow all of that governments guidelines, rules, and orders, In early April several of us had the opportunity to attend a meeting sponsored by Wasatch Front Regional Council on the new public health systems agen-sid- y association cy." The was officially represented by Mayor William Levitt of Alta, Utah. Mayor Levitts town has a little more than 100 people and represents less than 2100ths of one percent of all the people in the area. Thus, he cannot have represented very many of the people present at the meeting, During the two hours we spent there, we got a good idea of the socialized medicine provided by and by Utah Public Law 1 Senate Bill 45 of the 1976 Legislature, the public notice While advertising the meeting said we could voice our opinions, it also said we would participate in the creation of the health systems agency, by review and comment on the application andor submission of written comments." And our objections seem to have been to no avail, organizations formed to do the work of God. To have such impact Government must take a large part of what people produce and take a large part of their time. And, of course, government does both of these things. SUBSIDIZES WORK OF GOD? Why do I say that government feels itself more important than God and more important than religious organizations formed to do His work? I got this idea out of a textbook on taxation which is used at the University of Utah. On page 189 is found, Section 170 provides that contributions, up to 50 percent of the taxpayers A.G.I., to made qualified organizations primarily organizations formed for religious, or educational charitable,..., purposes;..., may be deducted. Ob- viously, this provision is intended to encourage giving to worthwhile groups, but it is also in effect a sub- to the donee organization..." (Emphasis ad !ed.) But this is an unreasonable assertion. It is more reasonable to say that if there is no devout worship of God and support of His work there can be no proper government, There can only be a slave system controlled by masters who decide for themselves what all must do and obey. five-count- y five-coun- ty WHAT PEOPLE PRODUCE What people produce is measured as well as it can be by the money they earn or payments in kind they receive. 93-64- The January 1976 Bulletin No. 1 of Utah Taxpayers As- - sociation starts off by saying, "In eight years the total taxes paid by Utah taxpayers for state and local government have doubted." The bulletin - also pointed out that durin the same eight years (1967 to 1 975) there was a 53 increase in Quoting the property taxes. bulletin again: THE REAL SHOCKER on a per capita basis we pay total taxes, to one level of government or another, of $1,497 from an average income of $4,072, according to a late Bureau of the Census publication. This amounts to 37 of our income taken to sup- port government." This means that of the money people earn they do not have the right to decide how 37 of it will be spent, because that right has been taken from them by government, that extent the people of Utah have lost free agency. ALSO TAKEN TIME In addition to our County governments increasing their share of our earnings, they, in acting as a subdivision of the central CONSTANTLY DEFENDING OUR AGAINST : GOVERNMENT What kind of perversion is it that has government officials seeing themselves as tax collectors and total rulers? In times past our ancestors lived under triba The triba systems in Europe. leader would not rationally work to destroy the tribe, But those of us who believe in free agency are permanently engaged in defending against our collec-T- o government in its role as tax tor or total ruler. One of the first steps County government should take to regain to agency is to refuse all Federal grants and revenue sharing. The natural second step will then be to cut County operations so as to bring them in line with County collected government, have also taken time revenues. Free men can vote themelve but AMERICAN PARTY SAYS REAGAN CANT DO JOB EDUCATION Into slavery, slaves cannot vote themselves free." .1. Reese Hunter Dear Friends: This writer promised to review Focus on Man" further last week, but events have made it impossible. So I will tell you of a letter written today to Dr. Walter D. Talbot about our Utah school system, and perhaps next week will have the time to sit down and analyze further Focus on Man." Dear Dr. Talbot: others as soon as we get them Was wondering if you missed copied and have our meeting with my letters, so thought I would drop you and the Board. you a line and tell you we are still Included in this packet is one on hand, studying and preparing to of my reviews on the new book meet with you and the whole State the State Board of officials some published by Board elected Education Focus on called, time in July before 1976 textbooks Man." This prospectus was sent to are reviewed. Moab for a guide, with textbooks Enclosed with this letter are being considered for their children. several items: The parents living in Moab 1. Some clippings from Utah its HUMANISM A Comer on recognized Independent, called me, and I concepts, Education." a This prospec2. A letter from Dr. Rhoda purchased copy. . tus" is clearly a promotion of the Lorand, clinical psychologist, with alien concepts found in Plato's her statement on MACOS: Man, Marxs Das Capital, a Course of Study, and why she RepubUc, philosophy of Lenin, Rousseau, finds it lethal. Dr. Jerome Bruner, Dr. - B.F. 3. An evaluation of HEWs Skinner. All of these men wrote publication "Pacesetters in In- books glorifying MAN, and desnovation". belief in God, family, our Calls have come to me from troying nation, and the great strength and parents in Nebo School District, survivability of all Americans, with Rosslyn Heights School, and other our ability to build up the greatest areas, who are quite upset over nation on earth. It is a sorry story their childrens recent behavior. In to tell our children that mankind these schools Riquology" is being cannot survive without the taught, for building the self interdependence" of our nation esteem of every child. with nations such as Russia, Red Dr. Talbot, behavior and the other nations and values China, Cuba, modification that have taken our gifts of food, clarification, and many other senmoney and expertise and have sitivity training programs under done NOTHING to cure their own vaious and sundry misnomers, are countries poverty and disease. being planned for Utah schools. I Our nation is the one nation in the wish to inform you that the whole world that needs NO children are being traumatized by INTERDEPENDENCE, and the this course, and some are sooner we realize this fact the threatening suicide. Is this what better off we will be. Alvin Toffler you advocate for Utah children? Is in his Future Shock was a false this what reality therapy, or TA prophet and we will show him the (Transactional Analysis) is all troth. Your book (Focus on Man) about? ' is a lie from page 1 through 370, with a few exceptions, in my I hope you will read the enclosed, and take a second look at opinion. Unless our educational system what federal funds are forcing Utah children to do and study. I rejects federal funds and the social have told you on three different oc- studies coming into our state with a casions that eventually we will vengeance, and goes back to the to REPUDIATE fine literature that children love to Have FEDERAL FUNDS. After all, read, they will be ILLITERATES, PARASITES, federal funds are taxpayers WELFARE solvers childish of the worlds money, after the feds have had problems with no substance", and their share. The mattoids in Washington, easy marks for the takeover of our D.C. and Denver, Region 8, country by those who wish to desit like especially Health, Education and troy our nation and make Russia and China. The textbooks Welfare, have gone TOO FAR. TITLE IX is a prime example of are telling the children how to their intention to degrade our become these things. Dr. Talbot, peopte. Students all over Utah and do you realize that your their parents are up in arms about department is making this possible, this latest invasion of peoples because of your dependence upon I have petitions with the federal funds and guidelines"? privacy. Respectfully yours, thousands of names signed on them from all over Utah. We Mrs. Erma J. Christensen intend to present copies to you, the President, NCEE Legislature, Senator Gam, and . Wherever is found what is ' called paternal government, there is found state education. - Benjamin Disraeli Acting on wrong knowledge, no one, however well intentioned, can be more than partially right. -- Aldous Huxley Tom Anderson, National Chairman of the American Party, said today conservatives who believe Republican nomination of Ronald Reagan for President can turn this country around to prcverve freedom and national security are in for a rude awakening." Anderson added that even if Reagan gets enough delegates to be nominated at the Republican convention, he will have no landslide, and his first task will be to make peace with the faction in order to have a united party behind him and get elected. Reagan will obviously have to make many concessions to the liberals. Moreover," the American Party leader asked, has Reagan said anything about cleaning out the State Department after Kissinger goes? Will Reagan reappoint outstanding men like former security chief Otto Otepka and John D. Hemenway of the American Foreign Service Association to get rid of the massive number of security risks at all levels of the State Department including Kissingers aid Helmut Sonnenfeldt? What good will it do for Reagan or Ford to replace Kissinger with someone like Elliot Richardson who would have Rockefellers blessing and who shares the same elitist world view? And what about Attorney General Edward Levi who is imposing severe restrictions on the FBI so as to curb badly needed investigation of terrorists, subversives and Communists? Moreover, will Reagan reactivate the Subversive Activities Congrol Board and the potentially valuable Attorney Generals list of Has Reagan said subversives? about anything curtailing certain shameless United States businessmen from shipping quantities of our very latest technology and equipment to help the Russians build their war machine? And what about Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank in Moscow that is aiding Soviet financing of these deals? The way even supposed like Republican conservatives Senators Tower, Goldwater, Curtis, and Hruska rallied to the side in the Republican primaries shows what an impossible task it will be to point the Republican party in a truly conservative direction, to assure the countrys survival. The is final answer that only an inconservatism formed, such as is specifically set forth in the permanent principles of the American Party can provide the leadership this nation must have now. Our partys nominations for President and Vice President next month are therefore of vital importance," Anderson concluded. Ford-Rockefel- ler in-dep- th The American Partys national convention will be held June 17 to 19 in Salt Lake Gty, Utah. little boy had been pawing over a stock of A greeting cards for a long while when the clerk asked him, May I help you find what you are looking for, son? You got anything in the line of blank report cards? he asked wistfully. |