Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-15 | Page 3 | State Lottery Urged for Wyoming Relief

I State Lottery Urged For Wyoming Relief Liquor Sales Income Taxes Also Proposed to A Aid d Needy By fly United Press CHEYENNE W Wyo Wo o Dec 15 The 15 The Wyoming legislature which convenes convenes con con- venes on January 8 will be asked to levy a toll on those with gambling instincts and liquor appetites that the unemployed may have hac food shelter abel shel ter and clothing This problem of raising funds for relief with the present ever taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion issue lo looms s as the bl biggest gest confronting Wyoming legislators S SS S I S Wyoming like every other state receives its share of federal relief funds but must murt bear part of the burden bur den itself The proposal of the state relief administrator ad ad- Will Wilt G. G Metz to conduct conducta a bl big public lottery the proceeds to togo togo togo go to a relief fund is the most widely widely wide wide- ly discussed plan yet offered Would Augment Revenue Metz would supplement the relief revenue thus obtained with wilh liquor liquorI taxes nine I L believe said aid Mets Melz that out of ten busIness business me men will agree with me that a lottery would be the simplest and md most effective means meaDS of raising relief money moncy This and other methods of raising mone money for lor relief were discussed at a meeting of a special interim le legislative legislative legisla legisla- isla tive thc committee called by Governor Leslie A A. Miller l Linked with the relief pro problem lem was wu that of reducing the ta tax burden on tangible property Lands Land and improvements should near ly pay half the state tax load at the present time B Both th a sales tax and an Income tax have been sugGested as a means to lighten the thea property owners owner's burden The Wyoming E Education association has announced it would submit a proposal proposal proposal pro pro- for a sales tax that not only would relieve property but would raise sufficient funds to aid impoverIshed impoverished districts Would Raise Proponents of ot the income tax punt pint int to findings of ot and arid associates asso asso- o- o elates who after making a survey in Wyoming r reported ported that an m income income in in- come levy le would raise They suggested a filing fee for all persons in lieu of poll tax with a cr graduated rate beginning with 1 per percent percent percent cent of 0 the second 1000 net Income and running up to 6 G per cent In ex ex- cess cus of A business excise tax on net incomes of ot all businesses business a at a flat rate of 4 per cent also abo was wa included