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Show other business as may properly come before said meeting. Dated at Milford, Utah, this 14th day of March, 1956. KATE H. MURDOCK, Holder of 179,077 Shares and Acting Secretary. I First Pub. March 15, 1956 I Last Pub. March 29, 1956 the Safety First program." "We have somewhat the same expenses," said Beaver City, "only not quite as much, in some respects." "It works out about the same tor me," said Minersville Town. "We get a direct benefit from a city tax. So there's no point in an argument here." Excepting," said Beaver Co. Home Owner stubbornly, "Mil-ford "Mil-ford pays more taxes no matter how you look at it. The total here says so (1953): Total Taxes Paid Beaver City $41,397.63' Milford City 67,084.30 Minersville Town 8,322.80 stands," he explained, "we are taxed pretty much the same." i "You take the county tax," ! said Beaver Co. Utilities. "We j all sort of chip in to help each other. This 9.75 mills we all pay into the county tax goes for county roads, which we all use; and for control of noxious weeds. Now, on this noxious i weeds deal, the money goes where it's needed. That's the way all the county money is handled. It goes where it's ! Amt Paid by Amt Paid Utilities by Others $ 1,445.08 $39,952.55 28,461.28 38,623.02 685.86 7,636.94 "Of course, we don't pay all tne money that goes for county expense," explained Beaver Co. Utilities, "borne oj. tnai money comes irom lines, i'iquor money, mon-ey, tax sales redemptions, assessing asses-sing and collecting tees, and we also get a kick-back from gasoline gaso-line taxes." "It sure looks' like the County Tax is the trinedhest tax on the books," said Minersville 'town. "It's the American Way," said Beaver City, "of sharing what we've got with our neighbors." neigh-bors." They all looked rather solemn sol-emn at this point of the conversation conver-sation and there seemed to be a general expansion of good leeling all around. "We haven't said a thing about that school tax. That's a pretty good sized levy. What the heck are they hollering about more money for the schools? Looks to me like 23.33 mills ought to bring in a pretty good piece of money. And then there's that 4.60 state tax that goes for schools, too," said Beaver City. "Ill go along with you on that," said Minersville Town. "Maybe we ought to look into this." (They'll talk about the budget for the School Board expense next week.) WHO PAYS THE MOST TAXES ? , tax at all, not when your prop-' prop-' erty's outside city limits." Beaver Co. Farmer looked like a tractor ready to tear down an open field. "I pay plenty of taxes, But, just plenty of taxes." Beaver Co. Utilities had walked by just then and hearing the heated argument, decided to step over a minute. Both of them were looking for a champion cham-pion and when they saw Beaver Co. Utilities, they started all over again about the City Tax. "Let's look at it this way," he said. "The man who lives in the city gets the most benefit out of a city tax, so it only seems fair that he should pay more. Anyway, let's talk to Beaver City, Minersville Town and Milford City about this. They .V 4 "There," said Beaver Co. Farmer gleefully, "take your railroad out of Milford and what have you got? It shows right here that out of the $28,461.28 paid by Mr. Utilities $20,028.75 was paid by the Union Pacific Railroad in Milford City." "You bet," slammed back Beaver Co. Home Owner, "just take the railroad out of Milford Mil-ford and see where you'd get ofi." "Just take a look at this," said Beaver Co. Farmer, ignoring ignor-ing Beaver Co. Home Owner's outburst, "The amount paid by Mr. Utilities in Beaver is $1,-445.08. $1,-445.08. That leaves $39,952.55 for the rest of us to pay. Now you take Milford. Mr. Utilties pays $28,461.28 and that leaves only $38,632.02 for the rest of you to pay. We'll go on to Minersville. Min-ersville. Mr. Utilties pays $685.86 in that town, and the other $7,636.94 is paid by the others." "You can see from that," said Minersville Town, "that Mr. Utilities doesn't pay very much in my neck of the woods either." Beaver Co. Home Owner was undergoing a slow burn. "I suppose," he said angrily, "that your gas stations and motels and business houses don't pay anything toward your tax. It's just the Home Owners and Farmers that foot the tax bill in Beaver and Minersville, I suppose." sup-pose." "Now, now," said Beaver Co. Utilities soothingly, "the taxes you get from me helps all of you and you don't hear me squawking." squawk-ing." Beaver Co. Businessman de- aslde for agricultural aid anywhere any-where it's needed in the county. coun-ty. And in the case of drought, money is set aside for dought emergency. Besides helping the farmers, the county tax supports sup-ports our liabraries, and helps pay for our fairs. You see what I mean? This county tax is the friendliest tax there is. Anything Any-thing that goes into the county fund is used to help everybody," every-body," Beaver Co. Utilities emphasized. em-phasized. "Now, you take the indigent fund. If any old folks in Beaver Beav-er County need help, the Beaver County Tax reaches out a helping help-ing hand." "Say, I like that!" said Beaver Beav-er Co. Home Owner. "This county tax is just about xhe most neighborly tax I ever heard of." "I'll tell you something else," said Beaver Co. Business Man. "Some of this money goes for our county sheriff, for our county treasurer, assessor and recorder. And then we need the services of a county attorney attor-ney for legal advice. Now we have to keep up the county courthouse and we have to have a county nurse. Why, they even have a bee inspector." Milford City almost jumped out of his skin when he heard that . "A bee inspector?" he exclaimed. "What on earth does he do?" "He has to inspect bees that come through the county for disease. Pay him $30 a year for that job." "They don't miss a trick, do they?" said Beaver Co. Farmer. By Leah Foerster (Continued from Last Week) Well," said Beaver County Home Owner, "I'll collect that little bet." "You mean about Milford paying the most taxes?" -said Beaver County Farmer. 'Not so fast, my friend. I've been to the County Courthouse too." "It says right here," blustered Beaver County Home Owner, 'that Milford pays the most taxes." "Sure," said Beaver County Farmer, "but let's see why Milford Mil-ford pays the most taxes. Now, you take the figures I've got on tax levies . . ." They both put their heads together to study the mill-levy figures they had and here's what they were looking look-ing at: County School Beavor 9.75 23.33 Milford 9.75 23.33 Minersville 9.75 23.33 "It sure looks like that mill levy on the County and the j State and the School is exactly the same," observed Beaver County Home Owner. "It's the City tax that's different. And," he added triumphantly, "you'll notice that the mill levy is higher on the city levy in Milford Mil-ford than it is in Beaver or Minersville." Beaver Co. Farmer looked a little puzzled. "Say, friend, what's this city tax? Where do I come in on that?" Oh, how pleased Beaver Co-Home Co-Home Owner looked just then. "You don't," he said, relishing these words. "You just don't." "I just don't what?" said Beaver Co. Farmer in exasperation exaspera-tion . "Why, you don't pay any city City State Total 20.80 4.60 58.48 23.50 4.60 61.18 17.00 4.60 54.68 probably know more about this than we do." So they looked up the three (Tentlemen and asked them about the city tax. "Why," said Milford City, "there's really no quarrel about the city tax. It just takes a little lit-tle more to run Milford than it does Beaver or Minersville. You see, we're doing a dandy job on our streets and sidewalks side-walks right now. Then we have a swimming pool to keep up, and the city parks. Then there are public affairs to pay for along with the upkeep of the city hall and cemetery. That's a part of the cost. Of course, there are other things, such as paying the salaries in the police department, which is a part of cided to toss in his lot with Beaver Co. Utilities to cool off the arguments. "You know," he said, "in looking over this tax situation, it looks to me as if you are all pretty much in tn"e same boat. You are assessed asses-sed for what you own, and you are taxed on that assessment. But," he hastened to add, "I know some of you think you are not assessed equally, and maybe in some instances you aren't, but there's a group working work-ing on that now. But as it |