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Show Eliminate sales tax on food Dear Editor: If we vote to eliminate the state sales tax on food in Novenber, will this mean that our property taxes will go up? ' I've heard some property owners say they are afraid this will be the result. It won't. Food taxes have nothing to do with property taxes. The sales tax on food is a state tax. All property taxes are levied by local governments. So one has nothing to do with the other. Utah CAN get rid of food taxes and each family will save enough money to buy two weeks more groceries every year. We should not let the politicians and other champions of regressive taxes try to scare us into believing the end of food taxes will bring a rise in property taxes. Can our state afford to eliminate food taxes? Yes! All the other states in this region are getting along fine without a sales tax on food. The most recent states that have gotten rid of their food sales taxes are Colorado, Nevada and Washington. We can too. I will vote to eliminate this tax on food. It already costs too much to eat these days without having to pay a regressive tax at the grocery checkout counter. MIKE SHANE Coordinator, Utah COSTOFF |