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Show Legislators cite deficiencies in system deserve a hearing. The present time limit of 60 calendar days allows only bills of most importance impor-tance to the people to come up for debate." "There is a religious overtone in all Utah politics," said Omar Bunnell, Bun-nell, senate minority leader. Concerning Con-cerning the killing of House Bill 46 which concerned voluntary sterilization he said, "The LDS philosophy is not ready to accept voluntary sterilization. It is so unprepared to accept abortion that that was not even introduced. A question was raised from the audience concerning other religious re-ligious overtones in government, specificly, the beer tax hike passed in this session of the legislature. legis-lature. Sen. Bunnell said, "The beer tax here is higher than almost any other state. A lot of people don't think we should drink beer, so they tax it." The mine occupation tax which would tax mining interests that developed certain levels of production pro-duction also failed in the 39th legislative session. Rep. Grund-fossen Grund-fossen said, "Kennecott is the only mine operation in the state to fall in this specification. From the information available it would be an excess profittax."Sen. Bunnell Bun-nell said Kennecott is in a class by itself. "It is removing natural resources re-sources day by day until they are gone. Utah deserves a piece of it." "The legislative process in this state is very bad," said Rep. Peter Grundfossen. "It is a disservice to Utahns. I feel like a man standing under Niagara Falls trying to stop it. After you have been with a system for so long you learn to live with it. This is one system you shouldn't learn to live with." He spoke with Rep. Lorin Pace, Sen. Haven Barlow and Sen. Omar Bunnell on "The Successes of the 39th Legislature" Thursday. In the recent session there were 650 bills to be dispatched in 60 days. Because of this short session, ses-sion, the laws are drafted at a rapid pace. "Draftmanship is done so rapidly and so poorly that what it does is fuel the bureaucracy, said Rep. Grundfossen. "I would guess that it leads to millions of dollars of waste. The process falls far behind meeting the needs of the citizens." Rep. Lorin Pace said, "All bills r , |