Show Wilson Attacks Attack Shift of Taxes Load to Wages o o Warnings that taxation measures passed by the last legislature will put an excessive sive burden on schools school chool schoolteachers Teachers and other wage earners earners earn earn- ers were sounded Friday by Raymond Ray Ray- mond C. C Wilson vice president of ot the First National bank at the teachers' teachers institute In the West high school S. S J. J R. R No 2 which will exempt all homesteads with a valuation up to 2000 from taxation if i ratified as asa asa asa a constitutional amendment by the voters and income tax law changes were scored by Mr Wilson on the grounds that schools and the middle economic lass class would suffer One fourth of the money that has been used for school purposes in Salt Lake county would be eliminated under the proposed amendment to the constitution according to the speaker A survey of at Salt Lake county shows that about third one of ot the property would be exempt from taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion he pointed out outGAs GAs As 25 per percent cent of the taxation has been going to the support of ot the schools they would suffer a deep budget cut Pointing out that governmental expenses ex ex- ex must be paid through t taxes and no other source Mr Wilson asked I If we eliminate all this pro property taxation where are we going to to get money to meet our governmental expenses ex cx- School teachers and other wage earners will be the ones to suffer under under un un- un der income tax law changes Mr Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son asserted as It is the middle class that takes the brunt of ol such taxation he said Taxation legislation passed by the legislature has already had an adverse adverse ad ad- d. d verse effect on the state according to the banker A large number of ot investors investor who have had money tied up in Utah tax units have rid themselves of everything everything every every- thing maturing after atte 1937 he said It would be extremely difficult to interest eastern investors in any my of ol Utah's state or municipal bonds at atthe atthe atthe the present time Mr Wilson paid tribute to the work of the teachers and expressed the ballet and hope that their wage scales would soon be increased so that they could take their rightful place in the economic sun |