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Show WHAT IS THE ? Pqge 5 A- DedicatedTo The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth tiiicirtrer'tc'tric'irtc'irit'ir'ir'tc'irtr'tc'ic'trtriric'tc'tririr'ir Vol. 9, No. 42 fr-fr-- fr A-frfc- frA A A A A A tr'irtr'tr October 19, 1978 35C Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84115 M 5-BH- HERE ARE THE FACTS In 1776, the citizens of the American Colonies went to war to free themselves from the oppressive burden of a royal government that was then taking less than 5 of their incomes. In 1978, the American people are once again in revolt against government that is taking more than 40 of everything they "The Chamber of Commerce is predicting 24,000 new Jobs will be created in the next directly because of Jarvis-Gan- n twelve months, and contractors have announced their willingness to hire any who have been laid off from government jobs. New capital is flowing Into California, reversing a trend of the last four years during which taxes and bureaucratic harassment of business have caused companies to relocate 'anywhere but California. earn. Howard Jarvis has been preaching tax revolt for fifteen years. Working with Paul Gann, Jarvis and his group set out to get the signatures of half a million registered California voters to place his tax proposal, labeled Proposition 13, on the June 1978 ballot in California. Within only a few weeks Jarvis had collected, more than 1.2 million names from all over the State. Proposition 13 proposed to roll back property tax assessments to 1975 levels, limit taxes to 1 of market value and impose a 2 limit on Increases in assessments. On June 6 California voters endorsed the proposal by an overwhelming majority, thereby saving them- selves $7 billion in property taxes. Gary Allen, writing in the September two-to-o- issue of AMERICAN OPINION zine listed additional benefits: (Editors Note. Todays Scott. Report is the final article of a part serbs based on secret FBI UTAH INDEPENDENT 57 E. Oakland Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT Salt Lake City, Utah American people have identified their enemy as Big Government. Proving that California legislators have gotten the message, UPI reported that on August 30, the California Assembly approved a $1 billion cut in State income taxes. Terming the taxpayer revolt a national an AP dispatch of August phenomenon, 30 stated that a nationwide survey revealed ef measures will be on at least that 10 statewide ballots in the fall 'of 1978 and that citizens and officials in' 24 other States are introducing legislation, circulating petitions or rallying public opinion for tax relief. tax-reli- maga- - oo H a a SS - M VI JMH W t1 U OS cm O oto H M t. to to J O h J s in to ii at in H t t "Each year government promises token relief. This year a $16 billion tax cut is in the offing. The problem is that after (1) the increase in taxes caused by inflation, (2) the increase in social security taxes, and (3) the new energy taxes, there will still be a net even tax increase in 1979 of $7.1 billion with a $16 billion tax cut. In 1977, Americans spent more on taxes than on food, clothing and shelter combined. According to Marriott, it was on June 3, 1978, that American workers started keeping their pay. Until then the pay for every hour worked went to pay taxes. In 1929 all governments local. State, and took 120 of every dollar earned. federal By s1950.it had more than doubled, up to 290 of every dollar. By 1960 it was up to 340. In 1970 . records, Freedom obtained under the of Information Act, dealing with the . (D.-N.C- .), it was 390. Then Congressman Continued on page 4 DoeiimeDit -- agencys surveillance of the slain civil rights leader. Dr. Martin Luther King. The article highlights the urgent need for Congress to examine the still secret FBI files for possible leads in the King assassination.) Two recent Washington: developments make it urgent for a duly authorized Committee of full-scaCongress to undertake a examination of all information gathered by the FBI in their private ' surveillance of the slain Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and those around him. The pressing need for this inquiry is clearly indicated by the new disclosures contained in the DBI documents, confidential released under the Freedom of Information Act, of Kings close association with known Communists. A congressional examination of the verbatim accounts of the FBIs electronic- - surveillance of King, especially the period just before he was killed, is & must because of recent public statements of. Representative Richardson a ranking Preyer member of the House Assassination Committee probing Kings slaying. le i Marriott declared: concluded by declaring that of passage Proposition 13 shows that the alid By Paul Scott -- Allen ne 1978 . INCREASING COST OF GOVERNMENT Congressman Dan Marriott has pointed out that in the period from 1967 to 1978, the population increased by 10. The cost of living increased by 93. Cost of government increased by 212. In a newsletter to his constituents, While oh a national TV show. Representative Preyer said there is evidence which, if it checks out, would show there was a conspiracy to kill the slain .civil rights leader. refused evidence. He to reveal the At the present time the FBI is barred by a federal court order, issued here on January 31, 1977, from releasing the tapes" obtained during the 1963 to 1968 FBI surveillance of King. These still secret tapes, according to DBI agents who listened to them, reveal the advice that King received from known Communists, who they were, and what King did with the advice. The tapes" also contain details about Kings private life not generally known and his association with persons that might have set him up for martyrdom because of his falling popularity at the time. - RAYS .STRANGE QUEST In his RE- public appearance before the House As- -' sassination Committee, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin cited the still secret FBI wiretaps, urging the lawmakers to examine the conversations for possible leads of others involved in the King slaying. While the Committee still has not acted on Rays request, which even startled his lawyer, several available for publication should members of Congress have that become necessary. Since King never made it to petitioned the Committee to look at the transcripts of the recordings. Washington, D.C., his showdown One objective would be to see if the with the House Congressional author of Kings famous I have leaders never took place. One gone to the mountain top speech theory within the FBI is that the can be determined. The famous warning was intercepted by one or speech was delivered shortly before more persons close to King, who King was killed in Memphis, Tenn. decided that a dead King would These lawmakers are con- further the movement to set the vinced that whoever wrote the U.S. afire much more effectively speech knew that Kings days were than a discredited King. The federal courts sealing of numbered. Significantly, at the he all was known copies of the recorded time King gave the speech, making plans to lead the Poor tapes, and transcripts thereof, People march on Washington, resulting from the FBIs D.C microphonic surveillances between House Congressional leaders, 1963 and 1968 of Dr. Martin who several weeks earlier had Luther King, Jr appears to some learned of Kings plans to disrupt FBI experts as an effort to protect the nations capital with massive these persons and Kings image. REDS STILL ACTIVE protests, sent word to the civil rights leader that if his protests Because several of the Communist were the cause of violence that the advisers to King are still active in full story of his communist links counselinginfluential black leaders would be made public. today, their past and present INSERTING THE TEETH strategy to turn the civil rights To put teeth into their warning, movement into a mass protest acthe late Representative John J. tivity to destroy our way of life Rooney (D. N.Y.), then chairman should be exposed by Congresof the House Appropriation Sub- sional hearings. committee handling the Justice Photographs are available, for Department and FBI budgets, had example, closely linking Coretta FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tes- King, wife of the slain civil rights tify in secret so a full record of leader, and Ambassador Andrew Continued on page 1 1 Kings connections would be |