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Show Taxation of Salaries lEy GLENN E. SNXiW) No. 4. fTTHEEE is no taxation of income by the state of Utah. Salary has not, for taxable purposes, been considered a sign of wealth. Only people who own property have wealth that is considered by the taxation laws of the state. If I made one thousand or one hundred hun-dred thousand dollars from my services ser-vices as a lawyer, a do:tor, a teacher, an office worker, or anyone any-one of the thousand and one salaried sal-aried jobs, I need not pay one cert of taxes to support my state, my county or my city governments. There is no question but that I end my children reap as much benefit from government business, schools, roads, etc., as any farmer or Teal estate owner in the state. There is no question either that my ability to pay taxes is the equal of the average property owner's ability, but so far, in the state (Continued on page 5) TAXATION OF SALARIES (Continued from page 1) of Utah my income from, services jnd every other salaried man's income in-come from services is exempt from .injr assessment to support government govern-ment business. There are thousands of men in Utah working for salaries who es cape a wholesome responsibility and a definite civic duty because the property owners of Utah will not permit others to help them support the heavy taxation load. A classified property tax and an income tax, personal and property, are absolutely essential to insure anything like equality in our taxation tax-ation program. There has been no organized effort on the part of salaried men to resist the taxation amendments which will make an income tax possible. None are anxious in these times to assume any load they do not have to assume. If the property owners are such a magnanimous group that they are willing yea, anxious, to pay all the taxes, they should, as has been suggested, defeat the proposed propos-ed amendments in November. I can conceive that salaried men enjoy tax exemption and some of them may even vote to defeat the amendments and so remain exempt. ex-empt. Any property owner who votes against the revision amendments is surely not an exponent of equity in taxation, but he is a living example ex-ample of the Golden Rule. |