Show FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE NEXT some bright member of the utah legislature has introduced a tax measure which if approved will gouge still further the small taxpayer the ordinary citizen who Is already paying more than his just share of the expenses of state government this statesman proposes that an admission tax of about 20 per cent be imposed on theater and amusement tickets eltty cent admission tickets would be subject to an excise tax of 10 cents dollar tickets 20 cents and so forth the funds to be derived from this tax which would approximate half a million dollars a sear would go into a fund to be used tor the states building program in other words the money wrung from the ordinary citizen who would attend r picture show or a dance Is to be used to construct more new buildings at the colleges universities and other state institutions the bill Is patterned after the government admission tax which was imposed during the emergency of a war when the most desperate of means were utilized to raise funds but when the war was over and the nation had recuperated slightly from the staggering costs the amusement tax was one of the first to be repealed jt was an emergency measure to be resorted to only as a last resort but this proad utah legislator who probably thinks it is a sin to attend a movie or dance would have the amusement tax a permanent institution in utah exempting only the theaters and entertainments conducted under the auspices of churches and schools of all the asinine tax proposals that ever came to our notice this the limit we would like to ask one question what class of people comprises the great bulk of patrons of moving pictures and similar enter it Is the common citizens the poorer classes the people who work hard in the fields the shops on the roads in the factories in other words the laborer who works and sweats and who occasionally B little entertainment and amusement following a day of toll should this man be required to finance the expensive state buildings which it Is proposed to build during the next twenty years the idea to us Is unthinkable we marvel that any sane man would give the plan a seconds consideration and yet we imagine this legislator thinks he has made a great contribution statesmanship of utah |