| Show Taxpayers Asked To Join In hi Curbing TTo Increase of Taxes AlII Taxpayers rs pf nil all SS Ck classes and from all p parts ts l-ts of the state are arela asked to share the general obliga lion bon to protect themselves es a against the rising tide of excessive taxa taxation Lion according to a resolution whIch was pissed pasted unanimously at atthe atthe atthe the annual l convention of the Utah Taxpayers a association held Satur Saturday Saturday da day February 10 at th the Hotel Utah By a rising vote the too lar large convention a agreed further that it was in m our own mt interest rest and for our afur own economic salvation hence hence- hence forth be active rather than apathetic that that- we Vc co operate where we hEU have hate e criticized and we remove preJUdice in n favor f of per personal onal participation It was wal with this message ringing in theIr ears that the ta taxpayers closed t the best convention of its kind ever er held in the state dunn during the 11 years of existence of the association association tion Governor Henry H Blood who sounded the key kC keynote note of the season Beason expressed his appreciation to 10 the Ta pa ers association for theIr constructive assistance ingathering in m ingathering gathering helpful and help ful n information and facts upon our tax situation not only in too the state but in nil nU the taxing units unita throughout hout Utah Judge J A chairman of the association and presiding offs officer I of the convention urged that the taxpayers regard the problem of taxation as their own one that cannot be delegated to others Mr Ephraim Ephrum Bergeson of Corn Cornish Cornish ish sh past president of oC the Utah State Farm Farm Bureau warned varned I against failure on the part of the y taxpayers rs to study their local bud budgets ets bond issues and le Ie les ies I where here most ost o of the taxes originate condemned any disposition to repudiate ta taxes es after they are once nce authorized p Senator Paul Hunt a member J of the committee of Nine appoint d cd by the Governor to investigate t fJ public affairs gave ga an e i of ot taxes from the standpoint stand- stand standpoint point of ability to pay PW By the therose Use rose of graphs and charts he show show- showed showed showed ed how a tax above a certain point brings diminishing returns and that the taxes which go be- be beyond be beyond yond that point react unfavorably upon all business and therefore 1 tend nd to confiscation Tho The school chool program was pre rented by DraL Dr L John Nuttall Jr Supt of Salt Lake City schools and nd Dr LeRoy E Conies of the University of Utah who explain explained I ed ad that the schools were there for forthe forthe the people ind and that the tho people must decide the extent of the edu- edu education edu education cation desired and that the pe people must be prepared to pay for the servIce the they demand Hon Franklin RIter Piter IE in a ring ringI ringing ringing ing ng warned arned against the I apathy of the public when great t issues of economics and finance are arc areto to be determined that with the i deficits in public affairs s we ve e are arc faced with collapse of gov government itself unless the taxpayers ta taxpayers pay payers ers standout stand out boldly against un unbalanced balanced budgets The Resolutions Committee un dor cler the chairmanship of Mr S M II NIelson of Mt Pleasant urged the enforcement of the audit and budget laws in every ery taxing unit m in the state they warned named against excessive SI O borrowing they called upon the Fe Federal val government to balance its budget they maintain eel I that tan tangible property had reached the saturation point as as its to assume an further burdens they asked the legislature Governor and the incoming lature to set up machinery ry for an official impartial consideration of tax systems and assessments raCher n ra ther Cher than to have IndIVIdual groups and bodies clamoring for systems of their own device cal cal- calculated calculated cal calculated to rehe relieve rehee e their own taxes by bv shifting their burden upon the shoulders of ot others The resolutions called upon taxpayers to retrain refrain re retrain train frain from joining any movement mo ement calculated to discourage the pay pay- payment payment ment nt of taxes since SInCO such an under under- undertaking undertaking taking would all orderly government and would paralyze paralle our whole industrial and economIc structure As a n result of the co operative movement mo begun l between tween the schools and the taxpayers it was vas ur urged ed that a committee made up jointly of teachers and taxpayers should problems consider consuel their mutual lems and report their findings s to the public Among these subjects yere were junior colleges free tc teat t boOks tran i sen service Ice I consolidation of schools the extent to v huh free public instruction I should be given and the e extent tent to which those engaged eng in the tho school professIOn elthel individually or collects el ely should participate In in ernes dealing with tax sy SJ sw s s ems and ind other financial n aspects of schools It was i as further agreed that lo- lo local lo Jo local I cal eal convention conventions should be held m in inthe inthe the key hy cities throughout the state to bring home the message of the I state com convention to the ver in their respective localities Such Sucha a convention will be arranged in community under the direction of the local committee of the Tax Tae pay pa ers association |
