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Show NUGGETS FROM UTAH FARM BUREAU LEADERS My kvu iii;i;;i:soN Former Slate Head of Fa nil Bureau ; The three I mi: problems confiont- : IriLT the fanners are production, dis-trilmtioii dis-trilmtioii and taxation. Only half of I'tali's wealth ever finds its way to the assessment rolls. ' 1'tah has tlie disfinclion of hav- inir tlie most anliqualed tax law in ' tin- naliun. No yoiimr people wil! stay on (lie ; farm unless there is an earning. (hi on I and see what the farm-wivi: farm-wivi: have hail to do with. Ask them ho w jiiik h t hey liav- had to buy willi. I'ay as you go, or don't go. The fanner will go as far as anyone any-one to save t ho beet sui-.a r industry indus-try in Utah. Ves, they'll go farther. Yon have gul to stand up for your rights and stay up a while. ion have nothing to lose on this tax eijiia liat ion fight, so slay witii it Yon have a lot. to gain. Uy M. 1 UKOUN Frcsident I tali State Farm liurcau Mie outstanding accomplishment of the Farm Bureau is to get farmer?; farm-er?; together to think about problems confronting them. The Farm Bureau idea lias b;vn sold the nation over to business and civic organizations. Farm Bureau stands for hctfr homes, for living within one's income, in-come, and against bonded indebtedness. indebted-ness. ' "While aid may be received from various sources, tin; farmer him-elf must work out his problems. He can do ir better in the Farm Bureau. Nothing the farmer has escapes the assessor's attention. The farmer would have no objection objec-tion to present 1'tah tax system if I ho rest of the people were taxed I he same way. Too much wealth escnpes taxation. The Farm Bureau will work for n reclassification of property, for tax purposes. Wouldn't it be fine, farmers, if we could be assessed like the miii' three times the net proceeds. We would bw satisfied wiLh that! There is no justice in a law whi"l. comitclls a man who has $50,000 invested in-vested in property to be taxed, and another who has $30,000 in a sav-ii.gs sav-ii.gs bank to go tax free. |