Show the state debt Is mere here peanuts bublic debt liko like private debt ia is an obligation which P public must be paid in both cases it is ia a mortgage against tho the assets of those concerned hero in uintah county we are cautious against bonding thoro there is a widespread attitude that bonding and bondage are synonymous the total debt of uintah county including city county and district bonds nc ne cording to a recent survey by the state tax commission is if all tho the county bounty debts in tho tile state were added to tho the net not state debt of the overall over all state and local public debt would be just under this figure is of grave concern to all taxpayers who i realize that they must pay not 0 only lily all the tho costs incident to tho the carrying on of government services of all kinds and descriptions but also pay off this debt of which is hanging over them it seems that our people have not been nor are A H they now nearly so much concerned with federal debts A many of our citizens worried a whit when deficit financing has hat been the rule to the tune of many billions s of dollars even in our present prosperous times the federal just as personal or state and local debt must be J redeemed and paid A recent survey shows that share of the f federal debt f billion on a per capita ratio basis ia is and that uintah countes coun tys share of the fed fea ti oral debt on the same basis is this is an amount 63 times as great as our state and local debt it is a debt almost twice as much as the asses assessed valuation f of our county from where we sit it looks aa as though wo had better begin concerning ourselves in the matter of the federal debt the national debt has climbed like a jet plane and in 1949 it amounted to 1740 for each emercian man kanj woman and child thus if your family numbers five rive you have a 0 mortgage of in addition to any other mort gage which you personally signed and blotted something about the school lew ta ts interesting to observe how persons trying to com I 1 pare certain things of today with things of yesterday s contort the facts theres there 18 nothing outlandish about it it its Is just human nature for instance some will say why the winters of today are twice aa as bad aa as they were 10 years ago when facts will prove that just about the same this explanation is merely an introduction to consideration on of a problem that always is a topic for wide discussion in uintah county school taxes harriam harold Haro iaM M lundell schools superintendent teach era aud and county lawmakers are constantly confronted with the tho gripe that uintah district school taxes are rising higher and find higher each year actually school taxes are 80 of a mill less this year than they were back in 1947 supt bupt lundell L recently investigated the district tax levy files back to 1940 true levy is approximately mills greater than it was in 1940 however there was a very slight blight increase until 1947 when the state established its uniform educational program causing a sharp increase in the countes coun tys tax levy since that time the levy has ha 4 shown a slight decrease certainly the district has gained additional revenue from the increased county valuation but on the other hand it has been faced with the problem of an fin increased population and rigid classroom and health requirements from the state supt bupt lundell explained just for the records here is a year by year tally of the school low levy since 1940 1942 1941 1 21 1943 1940 1 1944 1920 1945 2050 1946 22 1947 1948 30 1949 1941 2838 1950 2830 in 1910 1940 the district levy was 16 mills by 1945 it had increased to mills the state levy in 1940 was mills and by 1945 had decreased to 4 mills however in 1947 when the statewide state wide uniform school program was established the county levy jumped to mills and the state to 85 mills |