Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-10-14 | Page 8 | GOP Candidate Hits Tax Load

I I I i 1 GOP Candidate adde Hits Fills Tax load SPRINGVILLE S Special p e c C cia I a 1 Americans have been wedged between between between be be- tween soaring oaring prices and soaring soaring- taxes Mrs Ivy Baker Priest Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican candidate for congress declared Saturday in addressing a aI morning rall rally Because of this we have ha had hadI to tighten our belts and lower our standards of living she said Austerity has been made the order of the day by Washington The remedy she said is a cut cutin cutin I in nonessential spending Every dollar not wasted by the government is a dollar more that you can use to buy food and clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing for your family and keep a roof II over your heads she pointed out Mrs s. Priest said there are I taxes ta on a loaf of bread on RI a R asuit asuit I suit of clothes on a cake oCI of oC soap and different taxes on onan onan onan I an egg On an loaf of bread the taxes amount to about nc she reported So when the government government govern overn ment raises taxes as it did this fall up go the prices again She charged the Truman administration administration administration ad ad- ministration could save the taxpayers taxpayer's taxpayers taxpayer's tax tax- payers payer's dollars if it wanted to o