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Show 14th Amendments by letting one person, the prosecutor, use despotic dictatorship rule and pick and choose who to try as habitual criminals. Since the statute is used randomly and vindictively by prosecutors, without guidelines guide-lines or standards, constitutes consti-tutes cruel and unusual punishment. pun-ishment. The 8th Amendment Amend-ment prohibits cruel and unusual un-usual punishment, and incorporates incor-porates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment Amend-ment and requires that punishment pun-ishment be handed out uniformly. uni-formly. In America, all citizens are created equal, governed govern-ed and judged by the same laws . . . our "Great American Amer-ican Heritage." On behalf of America's founding fathers, all Americans, Ameri-cans, past and present, who have given their sweat, blood, limbs, very lives, and Sacred Honor for those documents, doc-uments, I would like to issue is-sue a challenge to anyone in the "Whole United States Judicial Ju-dicial System" to denythese allegations publicly. Truth conquers all things! Sincerely, Thomas Joseph Smith, Junior Nashville, Tennessee Now, the Habitual Criminal Crim-inal Statute, court records, prison records, will show that Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and 36 other states are violating the 8th and Feedback programs or services by various units of government but would require an evaluation evalua-tion of priorities and elimination elimin-ation of low priority programs pro-grams in favor of funding fund-ing high priority projects and, would hopefully require weeding out of that part of the burden we don't need. If you only put a lid on property prop-erty tax as the proposed referendum suggests that would not relate in any way to sales, income, franchise and other taxes which could supposedly skyrocket to meet those needs normally funded by property taxes. I am also having a bill drafted at this time which would require that regulations reg-ulations promulgated by the various state departments be reviewed by interim legislative legisla-tive committees to weed out needless regulations by which we are all oppressed. This would do two things as I see it: it would make the bureaucracy which is now answerable to no one, answerable an-swerable to the elected officials of-ficials of the state and then would require us as elected officials to respond to your cricism and evalauation of regulations. Ivan M. Matheson State Senator To Whom It May Concern: I will be introducing legislation leg-islation at the 1979 legislative legisla-tive general session which will address what I see as an edict from the people to put a lid on public spending. The bill I am having drafted will put a budget ceiling on all units of government in Utah based on the 1978 fiscal year and will require a 10 cut below that ceiling of all programs, pro-grams, with a provision that any unit of government could vote or bond beyond that ceiling ceil-ing for a specific purpose (such as a sewer system or need of that type) but the tax levied for that purpose would terminate upon the final payment pay-ment of the project. There would also be an allowance in the bill for the budget ceiling ceil-ing to move up or down with economic growth, with the stipulation that any additional addi-tional tax voted would be terminated with the end of use. This plan would do two things: it would require an evaluation on the part of all governmental units of programs pro-grams in progress, but will not cripple any particular program to the point that it cannot function. It will require re-quire the Legislature to take a hard look at programs and re-establish priorities. The approach thatCalifor-nia thatCalifor-nia has taken with regard to today's tax problems has brought to the fore the fact that people have had all the taxation they are willing to stand, but that same approach ap-proach would be insensitive to Utah's problem. Utah law now provides that local governments gov-ernments operate through property taxes. Property taxes also basically fund the school system. If we were to slash only property taxes we would be crippling local governments because of the provision in our Constitution that disallows state sharing of revenues with local units of government. The budget ceiling this bill would propose pro-pose would not eliminate any Dear President Carter and Fellow Americans: What is happening to those great documents of American Ameri-can freedom the very foundation of our Country the Declaration of Independence, Inde-pendence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights? Not only is there dictatorship rule in America's Judicial System, but one of the most cruel and inhumane acts ever ev-er used in all mankind . . . the Habitual Criminal Act. What crime have we committed commit-ted to have judgement passed pass-ed on our poor, misguided souls? Saying that we're not fit to live among society anymore? |