| Show host Cost of local loea I government per Baer capita For residents of Uintah County is the cost of local government higher or lower than it is for people in other areas What is their tax load per capita for the operation of their state slate and local governments As In every other section of the country with the outlays for public services Increasing year yearby yearby yearby by year the tax burden has been growing heavier The demand is for more police pollee protection better schools improved health facilities additional roads and highways more welfare and a host of other needs and wants All of which cost money TIlE THE RESULT has been according to a national study by bythe bythe bythe the Commerce Clearing House an authority on taxes that the cost of running state tate and local governments in Inthe the United States rose by an average of 67 per capita capila in the past fiscal year reaching a new high of As recently as 1970 it was only In Uintah County on the basis of its figures and data from local sources such taxes came cameto to approximately in the year Elsewhere In the state of Utah Ulah the average was which was 87 more than in the year before The tax lax load in the mountain states slates as a whole was Unusually large welfare costs special housing problems and other local conditions are the reasons for the high rates prevailing in some corn In some others Inefficient management is the answer In many localities despite higher taxes the amounts collected were not sufficient to cover necessary operating expenditures with the result that they were forced to find sources of revenue or go deeper into debt All in all taxes in the amount of 1568 billion were collected by y state and local governments in the past year This was percent more than in the prior year year- In Uintah County the tax load came to an estimated I The word sleuth comeS comet from the old Norse sloth meaning meaning meaning mean mean- ing the track of an animal |
