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Show Gou. Log to dead tan limitation group w issue by volunteering time and money. He said that the Committee has no paid em -ployees, so all contributions will be used for advertising, printing, mailing and petitioning. peti-tioning. The UTLC address is P. O. Box 306, Salt Lake City 84110, telephone is 532- The Utah Tax Limitation Committee, Inc., a non-political non-political statewide organization, organiza-tion, announced that former Governor J. Bracken Lee has accepted the position of Honorary Hon-orary Chairman. The complete com-plete UTLC Board of Directors Direc-tors has also been elected. John Fabert has been elected elect-ed President andDr. Charles E. Parkin Vice-president. Board members include: P. Lloyd Selleneit, Wayne Ne-smith, Ne-smith, Harrison Conover, Jim Thompson, Dr. Joseph Peery, Bruce Smith, Bob Salter-, Laura Ferguson, Jon Huntsman, Arlo D. James, John Brewer, and Jack A. Olson. "Brack Lee has long been an outspoken advocate of responsible re-sponsible government and low taxes. He's the perfect choice to lead the way for constitutional tax liminta-tion," liminta-tion," said John Fabert, President, UTLC. , Governor Lee said, "This constitutional amendment proposal which will place controls on both state and lo- . cal government spending and taxes has been awaited by Utah taxpayers for many years. With the passage of this amendment taxpayers will no longer have to worry wor-ry about politicians givingin to every spending proposal that comes along. Our leaders lead-ers will be given only a certain cer-tain number of dollars to spend they will be forced forc-ed to place priorities and finally fin-ally say no to pressure groups." "This amendment would return the decision -making power back to the people. If taxpayers want new programs pro-grams they can vote themselves them-selves higher taxes if they want to make cuts, they can vote for lower taxes. Politicians will be forced to live within the budget set by the people," Lee said. "I should point out," Lee countinued, "that this proposal pro-posal is different from others now being discussed. It does not limit just one particular tax. The proposal propo-sal would limit all taxes by requiring that government spending could not increase any faster than our income." A recent Bardsley Poll revealed that 70 percent of Utahns polled favored a plan to limit state and local tax increases to the same percentage per-centage as the increase in personal income. "That's exactly what this proposal would do, and Utahns are ready for it," Lee said. The Utah Tax Limitation Committee was formed in May of this year and is affiliated af-filiated with the National Tax Limitation Committee headed by Dr. Milton Friedman, Fried-man, 1976 Nobel laureate in economics. Friedman has said that tax limitation is our only hope. The UTLC has been holding hold-ing taxpayer rallies throughout through-out the state and now has over one thousand volunteers to circulate petitions but we need more," said President Pres-ident John Fabert. "We have county organizations already established in Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, and Utah Counties. Our plan is to gather as many signatures as possible before the legislature legis-lature meets in January so they cannot refuse to place the issue on the ballot." Fabert encouraged citizens cit-izens to get involved in the |