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Show , PUTTING PUTl'ING PUTlING ' A PREMIUM ON EXTRA EXTRAVAGANCE V AGANCE . . . A special committee of the Utah state legislature legislaturenow , now in 1n 211 ' special session , has introduced a bill b1l1 which pro pro- proposes proposes proposes - poses to put Utah in 111 1n shape to participate in m the industrialrecovery mdustrIaI industrial mdustrIaIrecovery industrialrecovery recovery program initiated imtIated by the federal government.The governmentThe government . The bill would inCI inciease increase ease the sales tax from 3-4 3 4 - of 1 per percent percent percent cent to 2 per cent . The revenue so del derived ved , , estimated at atappro.lmately atapprolinmtely atapproximately appro\.lmately appro.lmately appro .lmately lmately approlinmtely ' \ . $2,000,000 2000000 $ , , , , would Vtould be used for direct re- re reHef relief re relief - - lief Hef of the unemployed , to finance fmance public works projectsand projects projectsand projectsand and ( heie hele here is the leal real motive behind behmd the bill ) to guaranteeinterest guarantee guaranteeinterest guaranteeinterest interest on money borrowed by the t h e state OR ITSPOLITICAL ITS , POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS from the federal govern govern- government government government - ment . In other words , the common citizen of Utah will wIlt be berequired berequired berequired required to pay a 2 per cent assessment on every al article articlehe articlehe icle iclehe he buys , and the money thus wrung from him will beused be beused beused used to pay the interest mterest on federal pubhc public works fundswhich funds fundswhich , which scores of counties , school districts distncts and municipal municipalsties municipalities , lties sties of the state , already bonded to the hilt h11t and unable unable'to unablelo . 1:0 10 'to to : ' carry calTY an additional debt load , are scrambling to chisel chiselfrom chiselfrom chiselfrom from from the federal treasury . Talk about putting puttmg a prem prem- premium premrum premium - - . ium rum on extravagance , mismanagement and politicalgraft pohtical political pohticalgraft politicalgraft graft ! The subdivisions subdlv Isions of Utah which went on a drunk drunk- drunken drunken drunken - en spending spendmg spree during durmg pre-depression pre depression - - days and nowAnd now nowJ nowfind J . fmd find themselves unable to meet interest payments on ona onthis _ . , a ) , this easy government money , are to be rewarded ; the thecommon , common , everyday citizen , when h he buys a loaf of bread breador breador ) , 1 ; or a pound of butter , will mIl be required to throw a fewextra few fewf fewextra f : . t extra pennies penmes into mto the pot to pay for new buildings bUlldmgs andnew and andW andnew new water systems for those debt-ridden debt ridden - counties andmunicipalities and andts andt W " ts t ( municipalIties . - . , J If the legislature legislatgre approves a apy aj1Y jiy such public pubhc works worksi worksprogram i } program , if it adopts any such plan that would put the thet thestamp 1t 1tsfu.mp t . : 2 sfu.mp sfump stamp . of official appioval apPloval approval on local mis-government mis government - , then thenJ thenI thenwe J I a awe we are willing to admit that the members of the twentiethlegislature twentieth twentiethlegislature . $ : J Jlegislature legislature are about the most asinine bunch of law law- lawmakers lawmakers lawmakers - makers ever assembled in m any state . |
