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Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 12 | Opinions

Type issue
Date 1935-11-20
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Opinions
Type article
Date 1935-11-20
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 12
OCR Text rr If OPINIONS II Some Patrons I I Favor Sales IL Tax on Meals The Salt SaU Lake Telegram ram will pay 1 for every question submitted submitted submitted submit submit- ted and amI used in this column Tho The que question tion Should the sales tax lax on restaurant meals be abol abol- EZRA ROBINSON Bountiful lawyer The lawyer The tax on m meals als eat catin n in ina ina ina a restaurant should not be be abol abol- bol- bol Why should t the h restaurant rf owner be left tho w 44 4 responsibility of f. f cS J i paying additional ii 1 revenue He has hasto rt N V. V to pay each merchant mer mer- s. s r chant from whom he buys supplies r t Then why should the patron be not c willing to pay the J slight tax on the meal After all an A when the restaurant i n. n rant owner has 4 already paid his portion of the tax Mr Robinson why shouldn't he receive some returns If the patron does not pay the tax the restaurant owner has to take It out of his own pocket DON THOMAS First avenue watchmaker watchmaker-I I patronize severa several I restaurants restaurants' in this city where the sales tax is not in use I asked the owner why dont don't you collect sales tax on each check He told me that many of the patrons resent the idea and so the owner has to pay the tho state tax out of his pocket I dont don't think that's fair Every merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant should cooperate or the tax be abolished I R. R H. H McKENZIE 2822 Dearborn Dearborn Dearborn Dear Dear- born street sales clerk I clerk I would not like to sec see the sales tax abolished but m more emphatically upheld Make everybody collect the slight revenue and let the state see that such condition condition con con- is kept up M. M E. E MILES South Fifth East cafe cashier cashier cashier-By By all aU means the tax should not be abolished It is a revenue which mu must t tie de paid to the state If our cafe does docs not col- col Je lec t from each patron a proportionate proportionate proportionate amount of the check the house has to payout pay of the till tin that amount to satisfy the state There should be a law all an the cafe owners that either everybody rigidly rigidly rig rig- idly uphold the law or do awa away with it H H. E. E McCURDY McCUR- McCUR DY 2505 Hj Highland d drive r i v e railway clerk I clerk I t think h I 1 n ii k how this situation could be remedied is to adopt the thet method in use In f if J Colorado Colorado Instead it M of paying out pennies pen pen- I nies nice in revenue l the state should 7 i is issue S S sue U C tokens w which ich would be ft Z paid out to merchants mer mer- 11 away aay can chants person h with thus b by y doing each the h 4 d' d 06 4 z J squawks from a alot Mr McCurdy lot of people
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