Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-23 | Page 11 | People's Corner

I L Letters t tt t e rs ra Must Mutt Be O T T 0 Opinions p pin I n I Ions ons Welcomed Ill I I Signed Names With With- PEOPLES PEOPLE'S M H 1 I K I VH X I CORNER 1 X P Pl Please loa s e Do Not NotI held Upon Request JL V JL JL 1 J O V Exceed W Words 0 r rd d s. s 1 Educator Explains Meaning of Stand Stan Editor The Tel Telegram gram In relation to what appeared Monday signed Me e I should like to make tho following statement In his first communication tion tIan Me lifted from Its c context one isolated sentence from flom m my published interview and arid from that drew draw tho conclusion that or ordinary ordinary economics has no place In education in Utah schools Was this ridiculous logic lc aimed at angering an nn-i gering the tile school man and divert ert diverting ing his attention from the maln Is Issues Issues Issues Is- Is sues In reply I asked him to toan an answer answer an- an certain questions dealing dealin- with fundamental principles of ot tax re reform TO re form Corm In Mondays Monday's article he lie brushes these questions aside as Ir 11 Irrelevant Irrelevant Ir- Ir relevant platitudes and then at attempts attempts at- at tempts ully to tell me what I meant by tho sentence h he be quoted from front m my Interview I h- h have vo never said sad orall orally nor in writing that the tho apartment house dweller pays no taxes But I do dosay dosay dosay say that the tho Indirect tax paid byan by byan byan an apartment house tenant in the form Corm of rent is 19 not in itself a fair fall measure of his responsibility for tor maInt maintaining Sov government It does not take into consideration tlc tho abilIty ability abil abil- ity fly of tio to individual to pay taxes One apartment house dweller may have nearly all his capital Invested in land or livestock or other tangible tangible tangible tangi tangi- ble property all aU of or which is h heavily heavily- taxed Another paying a similar rental and consequently a no similar indirect tax derives a 3 large Income from rom personal services salary or or commissions which are not taxed Certainly the burden of taxes is not b borne equitably uit bl bly by these two men Similarly the tax paid by a homeowner home homeowner homeowner lot is not nota owner on his house and a just measure of his Ability to pay taxes He ma may or ma may not derive Ider a large larse In income ome from Crom untaxed assets I should like to see the constitution constitution constitution tion amended so Ba as to make it possible possible pos pos- sible to equalize this burden b by placing some sort of ot tax tac on intangible ble wealth and relieving to that e extent ex ex- tent the burden on real 1 property That Is the point LEROY E B. ES