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Show How the Proposed Chain Store License Tax Would Affect YOU t You will have a chance to vote on this tax at the November election. It will be No. 2 on the ballot. You will want to think about it and talk it over with your family and friends for UNLESS IT IS DEFEATED it will have serious effects on your pocketbook. What is it all about? farm and range products. They buy millions of A small but highly organized group of competi- dollars worth of Products ever7 vear- If tors has been trying for a long time to cripple 003111 stores are taxed out of business, you and eventually destroy Utah's chain stores. They wiU lose an important and profitable market for don't like the way chain stores keep prices down. yur farm and ranSe Pucts. It will take So they wrote a tax bill and lobbied it through money out of y0UT Pocket- the last session of the legislature. But more than TT , . . r . . , , tt i , , . . Here are the provisions of this death tax on 54,000 Utah voters protested and signed a peti- u ;T . . , .,, . , . , ... . r chain stores. Notice how drastic, how one-sided tion to put it before the public at the next general and unfair they are: election, this coming November 3rd. Because chain stores help you in one way or an- other, you have a real stake in this issue. And WUV TUIC THY IUiHIII n you, with other Utah voters, can decide what the WHY I HDb I AA WOULD outcome shall be. DESTROY CHAIN STORES It WOuld be an extra tax On YOU! Here's why: Briefly, the tax would compel 123 chain The chain stores like J. C" Penney, Sears ?t0rTeTS' ?Ut f a t0tal of s,omf. 6000 streS , m Utah, to pay a yearly license of as Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and Safeway, for much as $500 each and would compel : example save you money. You know that . these stores to pay as much as $5000 Chain store prices average at least 10 less - every year for every new store opened and these low prices also tend to keep prices in or for any store moving to a new loca- other stores lower than they otherwise would be. T' this vould be in addition to ' the yearly average of $6,517 taxes per If the chain stores are saddled with extra taxes, store they already are paying. 1 ' they will have to raise their prices or close their ' Many of the stores just couldn't afford to doors. Thus all prices will go up and you will pay an extra $500 a year without raising actually be paying the tax in higher prices for the their prices. None of the stores could things you buy. possibly pay a yearly tax of $5000 for the . . . , privilege of moving to a new location This is no time for extra taxes that do not aid or for pening a nfw store $5000 , America's war effort. This proposed chain store yearly tax would freeze chain stores in tax would benefit only a group of selfish com- their present locations. But without free- petitors who want to get chain stores out of om to move, as conditions change, any the way. store sooner or later would wither and die. If you have a form Or livestock Within a few years, if this tax is not de-Here's de-Here's another way the rax would fall on you: feated hy Utah voters there wouId n0 Utah's chain stores are a good market for-Utah low-price chain stores in the state. j NO. 2 IS A TAX ON YOU Vote AGAINST No. 2 (The Chain Store Death Tax) This political advertisement was paid for entirely with contributions from citizens. Including stockholders and employees of chain stores whose savings and jobs are threatened with destruction. destruc-tion. Contributions from individual citizens will be welcomed. United Citizens Against Hijth Prices. Continental Bank Building, Salt Lak City. Keoa Maycock Badger, Secretary. |