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Show please, no slush fund According to a report this week from our Salt Lake City correspondent, C. Sharp, Utah is experiencing record re-cord income, taxwise, income high enough to insure, not only the requirements of a recently passed budget, but something left over. What to do with the surplus funds has bcome something some-thing of a question which is now being debated among members of the Legislature's Budget-Audit Committee, which functions all year and makes recommendations to each year's Legislature. The logical, and morally honest result would be a drop in State property tax levy for the support of the public schools. Some Legislative staffers, however, are opposed to this, saying that since the surplus will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be small, percentagewise, the funds should be "stockpiled" against future needs. We can guarantee in advance, that if a stockpile of state revenues is allowed to grow, no matter how small, future needs will darn well be found to use them on. Wc hope that Legislators deal honestly with the taxpayers, tax-payers, and see that a surplus is not allowed to grow into a slush fund. This can be done by simply lowering the State property tax levy. If future needs arquire additional addi-tional funds, then the Legislature should honestly go : about the job of finding the revenues for those needs even if it means an increase in taxes in the future. |