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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent October 21, 1976 The Paper That flare To Take A Stand . WHAT IS REAL INTENT OF THE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. BILL Cut spending. Provide for LOCAL control of LOCAL government. Reduce state government bureaucracies. Restore state sovereignty 'by reducing federal controls. Reduce inflationary trends. Eliminate the benefits to bureaucracies that result from inflation. (State bureaucracies have a vested interest in inflation. The progressive income tax coupled with inflation result in automatic 'tax acceleration'. This means that as wages spiral upward, more and more workers are paying taxes. And at higher and higher percentages of income. This provides ever increasing money for greedy public servants. This incentive to keep inflation climbing must be eliminated.) rircmn SOLUTION VERY SIMPLE The solution is very simple. Our lawmakers need to the method of funding education and provide a means for local re-exam- ine STATISTICS SHOW governments to be The statistics show that the cost of providing services at the local level is 40 less than the cost at the state level. By returning taxing power to local governmental units, self-supporti-ng. In A Comparative Study of the Fiscal Systems of New Hampshire and Vermont, 1970-7- 4 her income. "ln 1974, education absorbed 9.6 of personal income in Vermont, versus 6.6 in New Hampshire. Yet, teachers salaries in 1975 were higher in New Hampshire, years of school completed have been roughly the same and there is no sign of any significant difference in the quality of education provided by the two states..." ELIMINATE TITLE IX PROGRAMS Local governments can collect the sales tax or other taxes already being collected by the state. A small amount could be turned over to the state for equalization so poor areas would be brought up to par. This is being done in other states now, and has been done in the past here. . EXTRA INCOME the Readers Digest October 1976, pages we read in an article by Milton Friedman: "Sixteen years ago, C. Northcote Parkinson formulated one of his famous laws, 'Expenditure rises to meet income'." 69-7- 0, that! If some representatives can't see and set proper priorities and trim the fat in the areas that have been galling their constituents, then we'd better elect others who can. Institutions of higher education can and do funds completely independently from the State. When they do, they accept the controls. That is proper. Then only the individual institution is controlled, not the whole state educational accept federal system. 43 OF YOUR INCOME NOW TAXPAYERS ARE FOR EDUCATION Government spending takes 43 of your ncome already. Legislators have shown that they will not reduce spending. If you want to stop the ever increasing tax rates, DRAW i the most important item on the Utah State Budget. Utah has always provided the best in education. THE LINE. THIS FAR AND NO FURTHER! VOTE FORTHE BUDGETARY PROCEDURES ACT CEILING. Initiative Proposal C BUDGETARY PROCEDURES ACT CEILING Should a law be adopted, the purpose of which shall be: 1. To impose a five-yeannual budget ceiling of $915,300,000 ar 1977-197- have suggested HIGHER EDUCATION "Apparently, extra income and sales taxes only whet the appetite of the ambitious The only way to Cut public servant. government waste and extravagance is to cut government income." (I) In ginning with the fiscal year The threat to cut funds to education, which Utahns hold most dear, serves only to show the lengths to which some people will go to distort a responsible citizens' law. Why do they immediately assume education must be cut? The proponents certainly never EXTRA APPETITE PARKINSONS LAW EDUCATION is PROPER PRIORITIES by Professor Colin D. Campbell and wife, Rosemary, Vermont is shown to have both a state general income tax and state general sales tax. New Hampshire has neither. Vermont's expenditures have risen to meet LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN Legislators will never, of their own accord, The Budgetary bring this to a halt. Procedures Act Ceiling puts the taxpayer back in the driver's seat and applies the brake. NEWHAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT educational excellence would be restored at lower cost. YOUR OPPORTUNITY 8 with a corresponding be re- quirement that the receipt of federal revenues be completely arid phased out by the fiscal year 1982-82. To provide that any budget surpluses be applied to the retirement of state indebtedness and thereafter a tax reduction schedule be adopted. FOR 3, AGAINST 7 ANNUAL GROWTH MEANS $70 MILLION INCREASE With a ceiling on spending and the natural growth of population plus the 7 inflation, the state will have a surplus of 70 to 100 million dollars that can be given to the local areas to supplement educational and other needs. Eventually, the taxpayers may expect and receive tax relief, with the resultant boost to business and standard of living for all. This is basic economics. Now, why the Chamber of Commerce opposes this is beyond comprehension. Unless, of course, they have been deceived by those who might benefit more directly from sweet, fat contracts than from the tax relief that most taxpayers would welcome. . |