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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand September 4, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 9 T0M SALTER SAYS breitling Continued from page 3 proponents of the plan after its defeat, the plan was defeated by informed voters who recognized a collectivist, totalitarian scheme and rejected it. Lest we continue to wonder whether or not these results, which m. . JC- are By Bob Sailer Statistics are dry reading but Ill bet 1 can give you some that will make a thinking person boil. Of course that same .thinking person probably wont do anything about it. For instance: in the tests on saccharin given to rats, the equivalent of 87S bottles of diet soft drinks in humans was given to 20 rats. When three of the twenty developed bladder tumors, saccharin was removed from the list of safe products for humans by the FDA. The average wage earner in 1972 lost $468.00 to Social Security. His employer matched it for a total of $936.00. In 37 years the average worker puts in a total of $34,532.00. If this amount had been put into savings at only 5 simple interest it would have grown to $66,000.00 by age 65. At age 65 the average married worker gets $223.00 per month for about 101 months. This means that by the time he dies he will have collected a little over $22,000.00 or only about one third of what it cost him. Yet, the elderly fight to continue Social Security. Urban renewal from 1949 to 1971 erected 200,687 housing units, but in doing so they destroyed 168 more destroyed 538,044. than built. 49 of the new units were upper income units, priced beyond the wage earners reach. It only cost you $12,000,000,000.00 (12 billion dollars). Please try to convince yourself that these socialist war mongers are working for the people. The real mystery is why taxpayers put up with this sort of thing. It is as though they are breathlessly awaiting each election period so they can turn their responsibilities over to the next big wind that makes the largest promises. Why hasnt it occurred to us that we are all fighting symptoms. As a friend of mine put it, Its like fighting your way through a roomful of feathers. Why hasnt it occurred to the great unwashed public that the way to kill a weed is to cut it off at the roots. What do you think would happen if we repealed the income tax? We seemed to do quite well before that fatal Christmas vacation when a mere handful of congressmen and senators put it around our necks. How long do you think the big spenders would remain in Washington if there was no money to spend? INDEPENDENT DIGEST disappointing to the Metrocrats, will mean the end to efforts to give this most populous area of the State a Metro charter, the answer is that it will not unless we can somehow cut off their tax- provided funds. As long as these people can continue to get funds from taxpayers for the purpose of destroying the institutions which those taxpayers want and can get tithes from members of the L.D.S. Church through the Institute of Government Service at Brigham Young University, it will be difficult to completely stop the change agents. Collectivism Philosophical Dictionary by Brugger and Baker, and published by Conzaga University Press. under the heading collectivism says, Everyday speech tends to characterize as collectivism any is on the collective; this is especially so with regard to the tendency to place one's trust in the help of large organized bodies (unions, state) instead of helping oneself or promoting mutual help on a smaller scale (family, business, This definition fits very etc.). nicely with the idea of multicounty Associations of Government and multistate regions, In The New Totalitarians the over-emphas- author, Roland Huntford, referring to Swedish socialism says, Besides, social change has been made smooth and painless by 1313 Center and AC1R For the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with 1313 Center and the way it has expanded into other states with entirely new addresses, it is well to mention that Council of State Governments (CSG) is now located in Kentucky, National league of Cities (NLC) is now headquartered in D.C and other Washington, adjuncts are in other places, but the network still remains. Document 7 of Advisory Commission on M-1- Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) tells us on page 7, Four organizations maintain particularly close ties with the Commission, both legally and These are the substantively. Council of State Governments, including the Governors Conference; the National League of Cities; the National Association of Counties; and the United States Conference of Mayors. The Metrocrat organizations nominate 14 of the 26 total members of ACIR. five-nam- ed legislature is weak, the executive strong, and, for centuries, real power has lain in the government administrative machine. (Emphasis added.) Where have we seen this idea locally before? Does it remind you of the words in the Metro charter that was rejected by Salt Lake County voters? It should. For the record. I contend that Metro and all other manifestations of regionalism represent the greatest current internal threat to our republic. When you are called upon to help fight it, please be prepared to do so. House Concurrent Resolution 28 Much interest has recently been generated in House Concurrent Resolution 28 which calls for a U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1976. The Salt Lake office of Congressman Allan Howe says this resolution has not been acted on by Congress. Continued from page 8 Washington A checkless society is growing more and more probable. Some 2,900 data processing machines have been placed in supermarkets, department stores or shopping centers which are tied in with the customers checking account. If the customer wanted to purchase a $20 item, the funds would be transferred automatically from his or her account to the stores account. The Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal of 815 reports the likelihood of 700,000 machines in use by 1984. Center for Federal Policy Review former telephone operator has been convicted of a misdemeanor for fraudulently placing over $300 in long distance calls. An Ogden. Utah resident was sentenced to 24,hours in jail. In addition, he was required to make full restitution to the phone company and was placed on probation by the court for one year. The former operator gained access to a special billing number he obtained while attending college. Mountain Bell News A With killer bees still spreading EUROPEAN HORNETS. northward from South America at a steady rate of about 200 miles per year, a beachhead has been established on the East Coast by a new type of stinging invader a variety of yellowjacket (espa german ica) from Europe that is particularly fond of congregating around garbage cans, old houses and barbecue pits. It is not as deadly or aggressive as the killer bee, but as most people know, hornets stings are painful and in some cases cause severe allergic reactions. Wright Patmans Weekly Letter Washington Oneida County, New York, has joined the growing legion of welfare regulation protests. The County has refused to appropriate county funds for welfare payments, according to the New York Times of 82075. Center for Federal Policy Review The Governor of California, Edmund Brown, Jr., reports he is willing to risk losing $245 million in Federal welfare money to challenge absurd and irrelevant federal regulations mandated paperwork, reports the Atlanta Constitution of 81775. California thus risks the loss of $700,000 per day. Center for Federal Policy Review Washington FROM HIM WHO HATH SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY AND TAKEN AND TAKE- N- NO AGENCY, NOBODY PROTECTS THE TAXPAYERS The United States is the only nation that taxes both corporate profits and then the stockholders on the dividends paid out of these taxed profits. This not only penalizes those who use their savings to invest in productive enterprises, but also those who sell goods and services to these enterprises, and all the customers who would get better and lower-price-d products. 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