Show Forty Cents of Every Tax Tat Dollar Wasted r asted States Ut Taxpayer According to the Nov ember issue of the Utah Taxpayer official organ of the Utah Taxpayers assoCIatIOn our State Board of Examiners has ha literally become a state board of de deficits fiats Although the legislature the th counties cities and towns end and Ire arc all aU prohibited by law from creating deft dEill deficits its the State Stat Board of Examiners made up of the th Governor the Secretary of State and the General Attorney seem to have hav no limit placed upon them respect respect- respecting respecting m ing the expenditures which they can cai authorize According to the Ta Taxpayer Payer the de licit has trebled during the past five years and now amounts to and this is 15 in m addil addition to the gross gros bonded debt of the state of over 10 10 The publication then concludes that tha the legislature must stretch forth Its hand placing limitations upon that that tha state board The issue gives fines es all the taxes ta levic levIed by the leading Clues cities and towns of o othe the state also the counties for 1 1919 29 i and 1930 Attention is called to the necessity sity for careful preparation of burgets on the part of cities and i for 1931 urging that all i public officials consider the era Of e depression which mch has fallen traUen upon all taxpayers Quoting Dr Wm Munro of liar liar- Hai yard vard University the Utah Taxpayer payer states that 40 cents out of every ta tax dollar spent in m the United States JS is wasted A formula is then when set up to overcome this waste aste and make every tax dollar doUar do its duty Taxpayers ers generally will be inter inter- osted ested in m these observations and these tabulations which reveal the thc trends tren s of the tax ta expenditures m in i this state |