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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand September 2, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 UNIGOV By Thomas 0. Breitling ON COURSE! Unigov is the name the Salt Tribune uses for Metro. Metro is such a poor excuse for representative government that it has to change its name in order for it to be sold to unsuspecting areas. Unigov is also the name used for Metro by Leon Sager in an article in United Airlines magazine. 1974. Mainliner, in June Main liner's biographical blurb about Sager says, Leon S ager is active in several community efforts for the preservation of cities, and is a frequent contributor to both BUSINESS AND SOCIETY and CENTER, the magazine of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Most of our readers are aware that the Center sponsored Rexford Tugwell while he prepared the constitution of the Newstates of America (his term). RExford is old an socialist who was Tugwell D. Roosevelt's Franklin of part brain trust. Manny of Tugwells close associates have been known communists. Lake TEN PERCENT CRIME INCREASE-WH- Y? Captain Joe H. Ferguson Salterl SALTER SAYS By Bob By Thomas The FBI recently released the crime statistics for 1975. A serious crime was committed every three seconds of every day. A violent crime was committed every 30 seconds, a murder every 26 minutes. The rate of increase for the serious crime category was ten percent. The crime rate keeps going up, and up, and up. It seems like the government just cant control the criminals. Salter O. Breitling experienced tremendous growth at the same time that tax rates dropped for five consecutive years. Well, in the first place the property tax per capita increased from 93 to dollars between 1967 and 1970, and in the second place direct general expenditures per capita during the same period increased from S214 to $405. Where did they get the difference between $95 property tax collected and the $405 spent? I do not know for sure, but it is safe to confecture that local sales tax, local income tax, state revenue sharing, and federal revenue sharing all contributed to this near doubling in size of government. I say near doubling in size of government" because the direct general expenditure per capita by Jacksonville government has nearly doubled. 95 NEW TECHNIQUES Sagers article is a polemic which is filled with signal reaction words, but it also reveals what he thinks of government. For example, in one place he states, Unigov is one of the new techniques being developed in metropolitan areas, WHY BELABOR UNIGOV NOW? restructuring functions of cities and counties. Police and fire Readers may want to know protection, water supply, why I am belaboring Unigov now. and We are not having an election on sanitation, transportation pollution, among others, are consolidation of Salt Lake County governed at the county level. Local and City now, are we? No, the elecgovernments Control housing, tion is not being held now, but we education, welfare, jobs, training are always under sigege by the cenand many more. (Emphasis tralizers, the planners, and other Metrocrats. The media job of added.) The obvious thing to note building up public awareness that about local government is that it there is a pot of gold at the end of performs functions which are not the Metro rainbow is always going the defensive functions of on. For example in reporting That is, local criticism of the Utah Budgetary government. government as defined by Unigov Procedures Ceiling Act Initiative, does not have police nor fire the Salt Lake City Deseret News said, Sponsorship of the initiative protection as its functions. then, is centralized is coming from the same group that Unigov, It is not our is sponsoring the Recall Initiative government. American republican form of and defeated the proposal to consolidate city and county government. All I Notice, too, that the part government, Pugh said. which local government is allowed know is, the name of the group who to play under Unigov is totally defeated the proposal to consocialist in orientation. I have read solidate city and county in the Salt Lake City daily papers government is the voters. If you that Indianapolis calls its system of dont believe me count the votes. That proposal went down to defeat Metro by the name Unigov. by a proportion of 3 to 2. Just never let up. Soon we will SIGNAL REACTION WORDS have to defeat it again. Sager uses signal reaction Now is the proper time to words like Berlin Wall for the evaluate candidates for public ofboundaries between cities and suburbs. He, like other fice. In cases where both canMetrocrats, refers to sprawl", the didates support Metro programs it is better to withhold your vote energy crisis", and the famous completely or write in the names of team of economy and efficiency. a suitable candidate than to vote for persons who support Metro in TAX RATES DROPPED forms. Sager claims that Jacksonville any of its many NONE, NOT EVEN ALL, CAN EQUAL COMMUNISM If we could clean up the ecology, immunize people against levels, the lives saved and cancer, reduce crime to its once-lothe suffering prevented wouldnt equal in sixty years the lives lost to Communism and the suffering Communism has brought to people. Nothing, neither plagues nor wars, has ever claimed w as many lives as has Communism. So why have we allowed our politicians to build the deadly powers of Communism by giving them diplomatic recognition; by giving them nations and populations at Teheran, Yalta and at Helsinki; by giving them technology and cultural exchanges; by giving them credits and Red Trade; by giving them Detente; by denying support to their opposition? We could have stopped them cold by simply denying them food, trade and technology. What a life! Congressman Howe of Utah found guilty of sex solicitation a second time. Other government. officials leaving office for the same or worse. Voters justify their acts by declaring that what they do on their own time is all right so long as they vote liberal. Russia spends $100 billion for civil defense while we spend only 2 of that figure. Wars, Wow! revolutions and In view of the fact that crime is on the increase, it is particularly strange that the size and cost of government is also on the increase. If the government is getting bigger, is supposed to protect the innocent and if from the criminals, then why is the crime rate going up? the-governme- The answer to this perplexing problem is that, while the size of the government is increasing, that portion of the government which controls the criminals is not increasing. The part that is increasing is that part which controls the innocent people the bureaucracy. That is what is increasing. So, if you think that the government is more interested in controlling us than protecting us, Y OU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT! murders everywhere. The two major parties running candidates who march to the same drummer. The conservatives running candidates who should be but are not marching to the same drummer. Drought moving across the earth as England cuts water rations in half. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions killing people by the tens of thousands. Mysterious deaths happening at places where they Dams should not happen. breaking and bursting. Weather gone crazy. Flash floods killing many. Each of these happenings should be the exception. Instead, they now become the rule. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have lived two or three decades ago can see the radical changes. Gradual, yes, but at an ever increasing tempo. Whats happening? Its got me reading the good book again. It might be different if a person could see it leveling off but its not. The terrible part is the way it affects the people, or I should say, the way it does not affect the people. A bathtub will hold only so much water and a balloon only so much air. When will it break? I really dont know, but it may not be too long. OUR UNLIMITED FUTURE Continued from page 2 becomes ever larger. It joins the ranks of the knowable, but unknown. As the known becomes larger, the unknown, but knowable, likewise becomes larger. There is no limit. World without end. Knowledge, time, and space without end. No wonder the Bible tells us that Gods ways are beyond our comprehension. We may only marvel and wonder at the knowledge, grandeur, omnipotence, and omniscience of the Lord, our God. Surely we should worship Him from the depths of our being, and gladly and joyfully consecrate all our energy and all our lives to his service. Economics Department NORTHWOOD INSTITUTE -- Josiah I What are the Executive Orders to establish an imperial president, but a device for The os Utah's Largest and 57 Americanism? Salt Lake City Oakland Avenue Detente is giving the Communists the best of both worlds as it makes ineffective and makes more effective by giving them the Free World's food, technology and credit, and is giving them more , Utah 84115 I I Assorted copies 25C older than months 2 I I 25 for $5.00 50 for $9.00 USA $10.00 per year Foreign $15.00 per year 100 for $17.50 The UTAH INDEPENDENT 1 (First) Lat) (Middle) sm Captive Nations just for the taking. each 12 for $2.75 Subscriptions: Name Address (Number And Street) L. (City) I Subscription Weekly Fastest-Growin- g 12 for $1.00 American politics has become the art of promise now and pay later. The candidates are promising now and the people will have to pay liberal the later, the more promises of the candidates, the more the people will have to pay later. 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