Show UNJUST TAXATION Utah's Tax Laws Discriminate Against the Farmer in Favor or of the liner Mner r Utah has favored the mining industry to such an extent that it is time to quit and favor the farmer A mine paying big Dividends to foreigners or to wealthy citizens back in Boston or in New York State pays taxes only on its output but the farmer farm farm- er must pay taxes on his land and andon andon andon on all property regardless of whether or not it is making a cent A farm that is losing money for its owner is taxed equally as much as th the good good- farm and the same with the old horse the he implements etc Prof W W. G. G Roylance of the University of Utah in a lecture in Salt Lake this week said say id i The best tax is the direct tax which cannot be s shifted cannot be added to the cost and paid b by Y i the consumer Utah's hi tax system tem tern taxes farm property on the whole while the mine is taxed on oni i its net returns In 1912 farm fann property in the state paid nine times the taxation paid by mines This his tax on the not nit output makes it possible for on one to hold an acre of coal land worth OOOO and pay no more tax taxes s on it until he gets a net return than the farmer farm farm- er pays on a grazing acre worth 5 The most just system is to take the tax off of everything that that- can be moved This is the single tax system which places the whole tax on land This is being done in part of Canada This information should be sufficient to induce the legislators legislators legislators legisla legisla- tors to equalize the burden We f dont object to land to ta tax tir or to ta taxing taxing tax tax- ing all property but it if is a very faulty system that shows such partiality to a class Utah's tax laws could not be much worse than they are hence the legislature legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture can experiment without danger of injuring any anyone one n |