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Show r..i October 21, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 5 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand BUDGETARY WHAT ABOUT IPECAC? PROCEDURES ACT A Divergent Analysis estimated one million poisonings occur in the United States each year. No one is immune to poisoning, and small children are especially at risk. If someone in your home swallows a poison, what will you do? The following information is intended to help you do the right thing is your child swallows a poison. The most important item to have in your home when that poisoning occurs is syrup of ipecac. Your doctor or poison center may not always recommend that you have the patient vomit, but if they do, you should do it with ipecac. An By Thomas O. Breitling On September 6 The Utah Independent ran our article which carried a graph showing percent increase in various statistics, including population, per capita income, state expenditures, and bonded debt. Sometimes percentages do not deliver as clear message to us as do other ways of expressing quantites. For example, there is less overall meaning in the statement, Forty percent of the Jones family were killed in the accident, than to say, Mr and Mrs. Jones were killed in the accident, leaving three minor children orphaned. Thomas O. Breitling We have already seen in the tabulation' above that State expenditures went from $450,983,000 to $762,528,251 between 1970 and 1975. This is a difference of $311,545,251. Opposing argument in voter information pamphlet refers to this amount as negligible. Actually, in 1975 it amounted to $258 per Utahn, or about $916 a family increase. However, without quibbling about such a negligible item, perhaps it is better to suggest that granting it is negligible, the author of opposing argument in voter information pamphlet would not mind if the State budget were cut by this negligible amount of By WHAT IS PIECAC? Ipecac is a plant extract that when swallowed irritates the stomach and causes vomiting. VOTER INFORMATION PAMWHY SHOULD I USE IPECAC? PHLET Because other methods like This week we want to discuss sticking your finger down the the Budgetary Procedures Act and childs throat or giving salt water the Utah state government Voter are not effective andor are Inrormation pamphlet which desdangerous. cribes its pro and con features. t The presentation opposing IS IPECAC HARMFUL? this act, given in the voter inNo. Not if taken as directed, formation pamphlet states, When except of course, that ;t will make state expenditures are adjusted for you vomit. However, there are inflation and population, any in- $311,545,251. one certain types of poisonings where it mans But, perhaps crease is negligible. Comparing per is another mans should not be used, so call your capita expenditures, we find fiscal negligible excessive loss of required doctor or the poison center before year 1970 per capita expenditures revenue. you use it. were $407 while fiscal year 1975 per Then, too, another comcapita expenditures were' only parison must be made. The actual, WHERE CAN I GET IPECAC? $400. At any pharmacy. Your unadjusted increase in State expenditures is 69, but the actual, pharmacist can give you one ounce NEED FOR ANALYSIS To leave readers of the voter unadjusted increase in per capita (30cc) of syrup of ipecac without a information pamphlet at that point income is only 47. This means prescription. All you have to do is request it. It will keep for several is a sin of omission. It leaves the that on the average every invoter without essential knowledge dividual in the state has to cover a years stored at room temperature. he needs to make a rational 22 increase in state expenditure rate over and above his earnings. Is HOW SHOULD I USE IPECAC? decision. Do not use ipecac until you For example, what does it this negligible? have called your doctor or the TAXES NOT DETERMINED mean that state expenditures are Poison Center. Then... ON ADJUSTED BASIS adjusted for inflation and But there is still one more population,...? It means, simply, IF I AM INSTRUCTED TO USE that the author of the opposing point which must be made. The author of opposing argument in IPECAC, HOW SHOULD I DO argument in the voter information voter information pamphlet knows IT? pamphlet has taken 1 970 as a base Give one tablespoon (15cc) of as well as you and I know that year, determined the rate of infollowed by at least flation from 1970 through 1975 to graduated income taxes of State ipecac syrup one glass (8 oz.) of liquid (water, be such that 1975 expenditures and Federal governments are not If you can have the must be divided by 1.48 to make determined on income as adjusted juices, etc.). victim drink more liquid do it. If for inflation. Nor is the food that them comparable to 1970 in the victim hasn't vomited within 15 constant dollars, and then we eat sold to us on an adjusted basis. And this means that tax and to 20 minutes, give another tableswent through the following tax, spend and spend, elect and poon of ipecac and another glass of calculations: liquid. 1970 1975 Remarks State Expenditure $450,983,000 $762,528,251 Actual,unadjusted $ REMEMBER 1 Inflation Rate 1.48 Divide line 1 by 2 Get syrup of ipecac for your Adjusted For Inflation $450,983,000 515,221,790 home today. Ask your pharmacist. State Population 1,059,273 1975 estimated 1,207,000 $425 Adjusted For Population $427 Per Capita Provided courtesy of: Utah State Voter information pamphlet elect legislators have made a Division of Health, Family Health Services. arrives at somewhat different deliberate attempt to leave the figures from mine, but the com- voters of Utah devoid of an honest parative relationship is not much appraisal of a vital fiscal and different. The important thing to political issue. Cant the opposing We may be tossed upon remember is that adjusted for in- argument stand on its own merits an ocean wiiere we can see flation and population has no with a clear and objective presenno land, nor perhaps the sun meaning for the taxpayer and tation of those merits? Perhaps or stars. But there is a chart breadwinner. ' not. and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to COMMAKE OTHER Editors Note: THE UTAH obey. That chart is the PARISONS INDEPENDENT will be happy to Constitution. To understand what is really furnish the author of opposing Do.iiel Webster happening to individuals when argument in voter information State expenditures increase at so pamphlet equal space for correcgreat a rate, it is necessary to make ting any errors he finds in our numbers. other relevant comparisons. . so-call- ed MARILYN MANION The Enlightened Electorate President Ford and Jimmy Carter have faced the public in their first fas these words are written) nationwide television debate. Theoretically, the eligible voters of the nations were to their glued television sets on that occasion, listening carefully and critically to every word, so as to go to the polls in November well-inform- with a opinion. ed a ActiJhlly, however, great many people were instead grumbling because their regular Thursday night boob tube hogwush wasnt dished up as usual. They the enforced resenfed interruption - expecially since the political nominating conventions had wrecked nearly two whole TV weeks just a few months back. I have heard heated conversations on the subject of how very much alike tile two conventions were, and why couldnt candidates be chosen in some other way: All we want, she continued, lower prices, higher wages, lower taxes, higher social security benefits, and cheaper gasoline. Grunts of approval came from those assembled around us. who allowed as how the only interesting things to be seen on this dull program were the clothes worn by Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford. are With voters like that, the public g?ts what it deserves. Total truth from all of the So candidates, please! confides to Jimmy Carter of via the us, pages Playboy that magazine, he has probably commited that abortion. adultery in his heart. Which is surely more interesting than what he thinks about detente, free enterprise, or whether is a there Communist threat. The pollsters tell us that voters will choose, in this election, not on the basis of issues, but on that of individual trustworthiness. Would you buy a used car from Jimmy or Jerry or Bob A or Walter? very provocative question, to be sure (especially if the person asking it has ever sold his own used car) but doesnt it matter a whit where these stand people on, say, government spending levels? Or is being a Nice Guy all that counts? The only issue making waves in this campaign is of Americans lean towards the Ford position on the subject but they are not completely satisfied by any means (can murder be left up to the individual states to decide?). .feel closer to the Carter stand but they think he should move Anti-aborti- on sts further a bo rt in ion-on-dema- their -f- or-all direction. Neither faction is likely to be satisfied come election day. -- American Way Features Readers comments and are welcome. questions Please write us at The American Way Features, P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be. what you will be. General Douglas Mac Arthur OBSERVE UNITED STATES DAY OCTOBER 23, 1976 MONARCH COIN CORPORATION 211 East 3900 South Phone 4 Salt Lake City, Utah 262-587- 1 it a |