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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand valuation, or $ -- million. Thus, the of costs being removed from the general fund to special districts would have given the county government an opportunity to reduce the county mil levy by 9' mils, IF ALL THINGS HAD REMAINED EQUAL. But all things did not remain equal to what they had been in prior years. In fact, costs of county government must have gone up by at least because no mil levy reduction of any kind was made. August 25, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 3 HOT LINE" 1 INFLATION $9-milli- on 59-milli- on, COUNTY RESIDENTS TO PAR WITH CITY RESIDENTS The charging of county residents for specific, identifiable, services which can be easily identified as benefiting said county residents, brought the urban county situation into par with the situation in incorporated cities. But costs of county government have increased more than 11 in one year, and thus no general fund relief could be given. Thomas O. Breitling SALT LAKE COUNTY TAXES . By Thomas O. Breitling It has been difficult for many people to understand the new Salt Lake County tax situation with its fees for services, special taxes for services which were formerly paid from the general fund, and no reduction in the general fund tax It has been difficult to levy. understand, because it is a complicated matter. In this article we shall try to make the matter easier to understand. But before attempting this we want to emphasize that all taxes in the county including those within its incorporated cities can readily be reduced without too much difficulty. SALT LAKE CITY LAWSUIT Prior to 1976, that is when Jake Garn was still Mayor of Salt Lake City, a suit was filed by Salt Lake City against Salt Lake County claiming that residents of THE the city who always pay taxes into the Countys General Fund were discriminated against, because general fund taxes were used to pay fire for collection, garbage fighting, and other services which were being provided exclusively to residents of unincorporated County. When the circuit court judge ruled that the city had no standing in a tax case against the county, because the city government does not pay taxes to the county, the city appealed to the Utah Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that on the basis of Utah Law 17-the county must indeed use separate funds, collected from residents of unincorporated county to pay for garbage collection, fire fighting, street lighting, and planning and zoning. 34 ALL THINGS DID NOT REMAIN EQUAL At this point, if all things in county government had remained equal (and all county costs had remained the same as before), the county government could have given tax relief to all residents of the county. Since the county tax base at the time (and until revaluation is completed) was each one mil of tax levy would raise $1 per 51,000 of on, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOT COST SENSITIVE The greatest problem facing Salt Lake County taxpayers is the fact that County Commissioners are not sensitive to costs. Any person, any family, and any corporate or political body can reduce its income by 10 without going bankrupt. The way its done is to reduce costs. When John Kinnear was given the job of trying to keep the Ely, Nevada operations of Kennecott Copper Corporation alive after the end of World War II, he successfully did so by cutting costs. This is clearly described in a book published by American Management Association called I Cost Conscious Management. believe Staley is the author. Vonlinued from page TAXES, THE AMERICAN WAY ESC WARNING TO BUSINESSMEN: L IP YOUR PRICES ARE TOO GUILTY OP ADMINISTERING PRICES I HK3H-YOUf- cB Pennsylvania Avenue 325 SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. On page 32 Poole describes how governmental units can make themselves less vulnerable to strikes of their employees. He says, uThis can be done by avoiding arrangements that make a city overly dependent on a single large workforce (e.g. merging all area into one police departments Retaining metropolitan force). small and medium-siz- e departments and resisting mergers are elements in such a strategy." (Emphasis added.) It appears the National Taxpayers Union needs to give city-coun- ty some to the Utah Association and the lessons Taxpayers Salt Lake Tribune. sgae YOUR PRICES MATCH 3 17 THOSE OP YOUR COMPETITORS-YOU- GUILTY OP Tableaus" well-design- ed and Brush Fires" created to divert your attention from our unsolved, onerous, domestic problems. They wont be solved until you, with others, get tough, and raise your sovereign voice! The ruling money powers here, in striving to preserve their giant financial empire, deliberately attempt to divert your attention from the fact that they control our government! Actually, they do govern those who govern us! They have so arranged matters that most of us are now merely their uninformed, over-taxe- d and American slaves, enrich their to working monopolies that are the life blood of their power structure. regulated well-hidd- en sm 90 Rhodesia? This would be a disaster. The real reason for this deceitful effort created by the &B . London-Ne- YOU PLEAD? York w well-train- ed 1 e? ( nn.rr'- I No Place Left to Go - Just one WHEAT ' small illustration of the absurdity of the federal governments policies: Last year, the U.S. sent the Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it. -- Shakespeare nation of Bangladesh BUY AND DISTRIBUTE EXTRA COPIES OF thousands of tons of THE UTAH INDEPENDENT American wheat. Bangladesh didnt need our wheat. In fact, 25C Bangladesh had a surplus of wheat. But we sent our wheat Dozen assorted copies oider than 2 months $1.00 1 anyhow, at the American taxpayers expense, so that the Bangladesh government could go into competition with iws own farmers. Thats how silly Washington has become. thats why I vote No so often against such wasteful spending of your And - money. Jesse Helms Make a man laugh, and he will be your friend. Make him weep and he will be 25 for $5.00 50 for $9.00 100 for $17.50 h ISSUE DESIRED NAME ADDRESS & STATE Enclosed $ each 12 for $2.75 Price includes postage and handling. CITY your brother. money to bring chaos to powers Rhodesia, . install black puppets, and then exploit Rhodesias vast minerals to enrich themselves at the expense of humanity. We should look beyond this We misleading Brush Fire". should bear down on congress and the administration. Enough of bankers deceit. We must return to free enterprise, devoid of big banker domination, lest our few remaining freedoms be snuffed out by the secluded masters of finance-capitalis- m or Money Rule, the group that governs those who govern us. Spread the word! is ) M hear incessant, vague chatter about Human Rights" still undefined! Every day we read about The Energy Crisis designed for higher oil and gas prices. Rarely do we read about competing fuels being held back" by bureaucratic red tape as ordered by the top money powers. Look behind the facade of such Tableaus as U.S. and Britain Press One Man, One Vote for so-call- ed PRICE FIXING! -- Sen. It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. --Richard Jeffries todays Could anything be more out of place and absurd than for us to force majority rule on YOURE GUILTY OP UNFAIR COMPETITION! for National Union, most important for concerned Americans to look behind the hypocritical facade of is It Rhodesia. Z IP YOUR PRICES ARE TOO 'LOW -- .Mfe without Taxpayers Union. Cost is 52 per Order from National copy. Taxpayers m We reducing essential services, by Robert W. Poole, Jr. Published by Reason Press 2 of rising prices, followed by rising wages, continues its upward course. We know all this, and yet we havent the courage to stop it. If wages were stabilized, prices would stop rising, and there would be no reason for further deficits or increases in the quantity of money. There is one thing about issuing additional quantities of money that is not understood. It is a temporary expedient. As it goes on, the value of the dollar decreases. When the dollar approaches zero in value, issuing additional quantities of dollars will mean nothing. Two zeroes are worth no more than one. At that point we face reality, write of! our losses with terrible hardships knd suffering, and begin again from scratch. If we are very lucky, we still may preserve some of our freedom, but we are more likely to lose it in the emergence of the increasingly authoritarian, socialist, or communist state. This is not fancy, it is the sober truth, and it will be on us much sooner than we think. As Prof. Boarman so plainly stated, when we abandon stable money, we are inviting social anarchy that leads to the totalitarian state. CUT LOCAL TAXES If you want to learn the details of cutting local taxes without reducing essential services, then order the following book: CUT LOCAL From LIBERTY LOBBY Washington, D.C. ZIP Total amount 57 East Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 |