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Show ("More faxes, and for what? the Intermountain average of teacher salaries as $5,834 with Utah salaries at $5,879 above the eight-state average... Yet one argument for S.B. 52 in the Senate was that Utah salaries sal-aries were below this average. We think this is a very poor yardstick. Freeport. We blieve Free-port Free-port proposals to be sound and desirable and urge the enactment enact-ment of the implementing legislation. leg-islation. From any way you look at it, the taxpayer is going to dig much deepr than ever before. We hope he will get something worthwhile for the additional taxes h is going to pay. Maybe so maybe no! I always try to be courteous to anyone who disagrees with me. After all, he is entitled to his ridiculous opinion . J f frhis has been a rugged yiislature, states the Utah payers Assn. which reviews ivities of the legislature sfar as follows: Many prob-is prob-is have been solved others in process. Taxpayers are ly concerned with what ipens. What they see ahead ather bleek. More and more Jes and for what! irtah needs and seeks new in-Ltry. in-Ltry. A favorable tax cli-:e cli-:e is essential. President M nson has cut business taxes y $700,000,000 to stimulate Iness. Utah is proposing to -'ease corporate and fran- sssie tax by 50 doesn't ce sense, does it a poor iscript on our invitation for . f business. ost bills have a dollar mark --Xyched. Here are some of the ortant ones : .B. 81 To increase individ-income individ-income rates from 1-5 to 'c. $19.4 million, p . B. 68 Double the corporis corpor-is franchise tax by eliminat-Federal eliminat-Federal tax ofset. $12.0 on. Ylj B. 69, 70 Transfer the J-ing sales tax for lings to General Fund. plSli million. , CRlJI B. 232 Increase mine oc-tion oc-tion tax from 1 to 1 (jl'Gas and Oil from 2 to 3. . million. CS en, the mine occupation v(H.B. 232) proposes a 50 Hj(is the board increase. This " produced just 1.23 of ' SaV6 1 State receipts in 1964, xlts effect on Utah's econ-is econ-is far reaching. Arizona, 1 nrnia, Idaho, Nevada, Ore-1 Ore-1 1 IWashington and Wyoming mfft no such revenue produc-yax produc-yax on mines. The future g Itah's exploration and de-' de-' Aj ment could be seriously t II igered. II ary increases are being M sed for everybody, it iCO0 like' For instance: " -4- 26 would raise salaries jounty Commissioners in ..i-class counties from $9,000 jjyJl.OOO with other similar ISX ses. 133 would jump the nor's wage from $15,000 5,000. 134 would increase Su preme Court Justics from $13,-700 $13,-700 to $19,000. Nor are District Judges, Sec-rtary Sec-rtary of State ,etc. forgotten. The salary of the Chairman of Business Regulation would increase in-crease from $9,600 to $18,000. Looks reasonable that salary increases should be correlated not a hodge podge. Think About This! "State tax collections dip, tax picture not so bright, drop in sales tax collections could result in a $4.5 million state deficit and an increase In the State school tax levyon propery," says State Finance Director, Then too, Bankrupsies in Utah have doubled in the last five years, according to Mr. Maw, Bank-rupsy Bank-rupsy Refreo. What will the big tax increase do. Metropolitan govern m e n t s OS.J.R. 1) Enacted. One of the most significant bills this session. ses-sion. It will enable voters to decide at the 1966 election if they wish to amend Utah's constitution to allow the establishment es-tablishment of metropolitan government in the State's four largst counties. To permit counties to establish estab-lish and finance Resource Development De-velopment Committees (H.B. 27) This is a bill which gives promise of considerable merit, but there are also many dangers dang-ers connected therewith if it gets out of hand. It has already al-ready been enacted. We therefore there-fore urge taxpayrs in respective respec-tive countis to watch carefully the operation of this bill and the revenues derived therefrom to see that full value is re-ceivd re-ceivd for every dollar taken from the people. School finance is the most costly, the most controversial and generally most important matter to be ocnsidered by any Legislature. This seems to be the way it is shaping up. Salary Sal-ary increases of $700 will be providd in two yearly steps. From the taxpayers view, the provisions are liberal and costly. cost-ly. We hope for better schools Now where do we stand on salaries sal-aries ? Average.. Teacher.. Salaries. The Utah Department of Public Pub-lic Instruction in the "Utah School Study Report" shows |