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Show Hunter to be involved When the Utah State Legislature meets in session Monday among the freshman Congressmen will be Republican R. Haze Hunter of Cedar City, representing Iron and Kane counties. However, just because he is new at the job, doesn't mean he won't be actively ac-tively involved in the law-making process. "I'll sit back and listen and learn for a while," said Hunter in an interview with the Iron County Record recently, but he emphasized the fact that he would not be entirely silent. "I'm going to see that southern Utah has a voice up there," he promised. Hunter does not have any present plans to present any bills this session. "There's so many laws that we can't keep track of them now." However, he does feel he will be presenting amendments amend-ments to several bills and laws. Hunter probably agrees with most congressmen when stating the major issue will concern budget, money and taxes. "The chief issue, of course, is going to be money, or the lact of it. " He speculated that department budgets would probably not be cut back any further, but also forecast that they would not see any increases, with some departments asking up to 20 percent more than last year's budget. But Hunter said that the additional money just probably wouldn't be there, and that additional taxes weren't the answer. "I don't believe we should tax the people anymore." "I think the greatest challenge we've got is to keep expenses in line with income, without increasing taxes," he said. He also noted that the trend of the government getting bigger and bigger and spending more and more money had to be stopped, and he surmised that the legislature was becoming conservative con-servative enough to begin to do that. "We need to see if we can't stem the tide of bigness in government," he concluded. |