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Show Bennett, Jones Score Demo's Deficit Spending Wallac C. Bennett and Dr. Preston L. Jones, Republican Repub-lican candidates for U. S. Senator and Representative in Congress, respectively, ..viciously ..scored the Democratis deficit spending policy whnn they addressed a sparse Milford Mil-ford auience in St. Bridget's Recreation Hall Monday afternoon. after-noon. Accompanied by several Beaver County Republican candidates, thny were dinner guests of local Republicans at the Royal Club Cafe preceding the afternoon meeting. "Milford, like the rest of' America's home towns, is being , bled of necessary revenues by a gigantic taxation swindle," Dr. ) Jones said. In one of the first 1 public statements since his election ecen'iy to the presidency presi-dency of the Utah Municipal League, Dr. Jones, Mayor of Nephi, lashed out at federal usurpation of finances which he said should rightfully remain in Beaver County communities. He cited as an example the 20 tax cut which the federal government gov-ernment takes from revenues earned by community sponsored holidays and other entertainment. entertain-ment. 'That's just a drop in the bottomless bot-tomless bucket of Truman's deficit def-icit spending program," he declared. de-clared. "But think what it j would mean to you if we could keep that money here and spend it on recreation and othei worthy projects for your own home folks." Two other examples of fed eral taxation which he claimed are inequitable to Utah's and America's home towns are those levied on liquor and automo-Continued automo-Continued on Back Page Here's More About j JONES Continued from Page One biles. 'Our communities are hard pressed to meet the law enforcement problems caused by the liquor traffic," Dr. Jones said, "and yet the federal government gov-ernment drains off a fabulous tax on every bottle of liquor sold, returning nothing to the community." By the same token, the candidate can-didate said, open and hidden taxes on new automobiles bring the federal government over $500 per car. "So what happens hap-pens to those taxes levied against folks in your town and mine when they buy a new car?" Dr. Jones asked. , "Does the municipality get part of that money to help defray expenses ex-penses brought on by automobiles? automo-biles? The answer is No." Rather, Dr. Jones said, traffic traf-fic problems, law enforcement problems and road repair problems prob-lems -all brought about by automobiles must be financed by the communities from other j sources of revenue. I "Meanwhile," he said, "our auto taxes go down the drain of federal spending." |