Show LETTER SCORES SCORE'S BOOST IN CITY BUDGET Contractor Says Says- Government Indifferent to Taxpayers' Taxpayers Interests in Note We are getting no rio better government govern govern- ment we we did 20 years ago under form but we are arc paying a lot lot- lotmore more for tor it wrote V.P. V.P. V.P. V. V P. P Strange local contractor Wednes day to the city commission Mr Strange criticizes city officials for lor attempting to increase the 1933 budget and accuses them with being indifferent toward demands for reduction of oC unbearable loads now imposed on taxpayers The letter Jetter follows Per The Salt Lake Telegram of instant it appears you you plan to raise and spend more in 1933 than thanin in 1932 It is astonishing in view of existing ex cx- circumstances circumstances- that you can entertain entertain en en- any further load upon your people You cannot be ignorant of at the fact tact that nearly third one of our peo peo- pie are arc now compelled to accept aid aid aid- call cU it what you like that numerically probably over third one of the home homeowners homeowners homeowners owners will be unable to pay the taxes now due and that most of the the remain remain remaining ing inc two-thirds two can do so only at the utmost sacrifice Are you unaware that taxpayers at large while helpless helpless help help- less and despondent are still Ira irate and indignant at all aU taxing bodies bodies- yourselves included If It you are arc ignorant of such facts how can you yoube yoube yoube be so callous and indifferent as to ignore their rightful demands for a a reduction of at the unbearable loads now imposed upon them CHARGES INDIFFERENCE It seems evident that once a man mantakes mantakes mantakes takes office he becomes deaf and dumb to the true conditions and needs of ot his constituents and chiefly because because be be- cause he can only hear the thc demands and arguments of the job holders and job seekers that surround him and these he mistakes takes for tor the voice of oi the people It is a familiar fact that most taxing bodies can only hear the I sophistries of those who seek seck the extension extension ex ex- tension of governmental activities and most of whom manage to land in a ajo ajo jo when the officials yield to their clamor You cannot be unaware that the taxpayers of or Salt Lake expect you to reduce expenses and curtail activities even if they do not have the courage to come tell and you so Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps you may feel if they lack that courage they deserve all aU they get gel We are getting getting- no better government government government govern govern- ment today than we did some twenty years ago under under- fOWl fonn but we are arc paying a lot lotmore more more for it it- it possibly twice as much For years the city commission has violated the law in donating a kind of at pavement throughout the city at the expense of thousands of ot taxpayers who paid Continued on Pace Pue Ae Eleven ven LETTER LETTER ETTER SCORES BOOST t IN CITY BUDGET Continued From Pace PlUte Seven in full for their own pavement You could have saved a lot there Your taxpayers have found it necessary necessary essary eary to seriously curtail their own ways of living food living food clothing etc Doctors and dentists confirm their Inability to pay their bills They cannot cannot can can- not pay rent and the owners o cannot t I. r. r in turn pay pay- taxes and yet you ou now b propose to increase city expenses It Itt Ittis t is widely felt W v can an have every es cs- service for far less than you rare pare are spending and that instead of an t. t increase of you ou should should cut ex ex- at least This is the ther r time we Ve want you to redeem your our campaign promises 1 If the needs of of- the people of this city cannot can can- s' s i not be bo heard and made effective by our your body there seems little hope for fora a harassed people throughout this land and Actually the tentative 1933 1033 city budget totaling is 15 only 1000 higher than the 1932 budget said aId City Auditor Samuel F. F Nicholls He Re explained the apparent increase by pointing out that next years year's budget will carry setup for the te bond sinking fund for re rc- rc of the first instalment on ona a debt funding bond issue of setup for construction of ofie the ie airport port administration building These accounts were not Included In m the 1932 budget and their inclusion in the 1933 budget is not an indica indica- tion uon tion that any city department will L Pend more money in 1933 than it ex cx- ended pende in Iii 1932 Mr Nicholls declared In 1932 there was war only placed I In the bond sinking fund Three years ago agOt go this fund was penniless the aud auditor tor saidI said I I He Re also aho pointed out that present in in- d point to a surplus of about o at the Ute end of this year This iw w WaS compared to a deficit at the he end of 1931 which had to lo be Absorbed in 1932 Whatever the surplus is on Decem Decem- ber Mr 31 it will not revert to the 1933 rev rev- fund Mr Nicholls said but will be oe thrown into the bond sinking fund which ICh at present contains only 10 Tho The surplus this year is entirely ly de- de Pendent on anticipated revenues Indications show the the surplus surplus h 1 i be oe but Mr Nicholls said f J. J figure fa fails falis Us to take into account falling S department revenues and the I Possibility of a deficit in the street department at the end o of 1932 |