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Show f VoL 14, No. 9 Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, February 26, 1960 15c per copy yt, $5.00 per year US. Agriculture Loses Millions Eye Witness Report Of Events Govt With No Preceding Hungarian Revolt Income Tax (EDITOR: Mr. Ferenc Vidovics is the man who, during the Hungarian Revolution, was one of the voices. heard after the Hungarians captured the radio station. Mr. Vidovics has a place in the history of mankind and will be remembered as the voice Citif Hall So many people keep asking us, How will you run the government without the personal income tax? The following article from the American Statesman, Vol. 13, No. 35, explains how this can be done. You will be asked by many peo- How can the Government ple operate without the personal income tax? The answer is simple. About three weeks ago (our last who cried so futilely that column about City Hall), we were Not one penny of your personal telling you about the hearings be- income tax is used by the Federal last day, that last hour: fore the City Commission con- government to finance any part of " the taxi meters. the government authorized by the The ship'is sinking, cerning The move was defeated Constitution of the United States the light dims, the shaof America. It does not pay a soldows grow . . . , civilized This column is designed to bring dier, a sailor, or a marine. It does not buy a tank, a ship, or a plane to people in the other 49 states or bullets or clothing or food. It peoples of the world, be of the the union a column that shows not does the President, the pay what happens when a real Conservat your guard, Senators, Congresssuch as J. Bracken Lee is put This is the second of ative men or on a job other any person in office. authorized the Constitution. ly Mr. articles 3-- 2. ..." three Vice-Preside- nt, by THE LAST city administration approved the sale of city property Examination of the events lead- in the downtown area of Salt Lake ing to the Hungarian Revolution: City. At present, this property serves as Fire Station No. 1; PubA. Psychological lic Safety Building (Police Station); B. Old City Hall; Public Health Building; a parking lot and an old garage C. Moral, and in the rear of the Health Building. D. Political factors may be in the course of events. The buildings have been de- obsolete. dared A. Where the Soviet armies and, behind them Matthias Rakosi and Mr. Gus P. Backman, executive staff (Revai, secretary of the Chamber of Comhis Moscow-traine- d Gero, Farkas, Vas, etc.), advanced merce, acted as agent in the sale through the country during the fall of the buildings to the General of 1944, the large and medium es- Service Administration, the only tates were distributed among the bidder for the property at this adlandless and smallholder peasants, dress. first to the upper limit of 200 acres, The bid was for $750,000, a good later on, however, this limit was reabove the highest appraisal $35,000 duced to 50, and finally to 20 acres; of die properties. the factories, large shops, mines, banks were nationalized without This bid was accepted by the compensation in order to win over City Commission early in February. to their side the two largest social classes in the country: the peasanOn February 19, a city taxpayer, workers. the industrial B. Stone, represented by two and Jesse By try the end of 1947, the social classes attorneys, Elias Hansen and Burton clearly saw that they were be- W. Musser, filed a suit in the Third District Court to prevent the city trayed. from selling the property. (Cont on Page 4; Col. 1) Mr. Musser last year was successful in a similar suit which stopped the sale of a downtown school (Lafayette School) to the Zions Securities Corp., holding company for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Social-econom- ic ob-serv- ed NAMED AS defendants see no reason why the City of Salt Lake should not be paid by the state for the cost of collecting the state income tax. 1 have notified the City Attorney to start a suit to collect a fee for the coat of collecting the tax money. 1 Mr. Lee Publisher in the suit are all members of the Salt Lake City Commission, the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, and its secretary, Gus P. Back-maZions Securities Corp., and the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. . n; The suit alleges that Mr. Back-ma- n had no authority to bid on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce; that the City Commission was without authority to accept the bid; that neither the Church nor its agent had authority to purchase (Cont on Pg. 3; Col. 4) Now here is how it is used. In excess of $6 billion is used to pay fanners to grow more wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, etc., than the public can consume; and they are also paid for not farming. In excess of $5 billion per year is used as Federal Aid to States which has been one of the tools used by the Federal government to destroy the Sovereignty of the states. Approximately $4 billion per year is being used to construct in foreign countries highways, airports, shipping canals, and to build plants in foreign countries which are competing with American private enterprise and with no investment in their plants. It is used to finance the TVA program and the TVA Fertilizer program which competes with private enterprise. It is used to finance 700 large Government owned corporations that are split into 3,000 companies, and each competes with every known phase of American private enterprise. This is done TAX FREE, so-call- ed , Act Competes With Farmers Where I Stand The Sugar Act of the federal government will be up for renewal very GUEST COLUMNIST soon. This paper is opposed to any extension of this act. further By U.S. Senator Styles Bridges The ACT was originally passed (R., N.H.) by Congress in 1937. In 1956 it was he renewed for four years and the As a man goes through life must reason, decide, and act To President signed the Bill. H.R. 7030, do otherwise invites slavery. It is on May 29 of that yearv much the same with nations. During the seven year period Growing up in my native New from 1953 through 1959, Congress England, I was constantly reminded appropriated more than for Administrative expenses of the eternal in connection with this Act. alone struggle between for 1958 was & slavfreedom and ML and the $72,200,000 budget on this ery. Qur roa(js Stili echoed the ite ' 'ncseL.erjy yef Hr destroying hoofbeats nfPani our domestic, as well as our exReyeres midnight in sugar by assigning ride, calling the port, trade to countries. And it quotas foreign people to decision into an international bein8 brou8lt and moiuiients sugar cartel which has reaped ft W& BILLION dollar, ta profit, the of American taxpayers. Sen. Bridges cemeteries to. re 'expense 'At ho time in our history has mind us of the brave men and American agriculture been unable women who founded Americas tra- to all of our needs for this supply ditions. basic food product. However, we THE PASSING YEARS con- are now importing 46 per cent of vinced me that the Founding the sugar needed for domestic use. Fathers were men possessing in- At present the price of sugar on sight into human truths and that ' the world market is about $64 a ton their legacy, our Constitution, was and the domestic price is $128 a the best written expression of these ton. American agriculture has been truths known to man. I became aware of Americas growth and deprived of hundreds of millions of her increasing prestige in the world. dollars in revenue and has been I decided to devote my life to her forced to discontinue raising a large part of the sugar cane formerly cause. I KNEW that my decision would grown. This has, in turn, taken jobs mean struggle. Enemies within and away from agricultural workers without motivated by greed and and those employed in sugar refinambition would try to destroy our eries. At present, American housepower and way of life: Others wives are paying 10 cents a pound would help our enemies by will- for sugar when the price should be one-ha- lf of that amount. ingly, or even innocently, creating about SUGAR ACT PROGRAM is This confusion. Our traditions, our inone of more than 700 enthe just stitutions, and our wealth would terprises in which the federal govbe assaulted. Defending the pillars ernment is engaged in competition (Cont on Pg. 4; Col. 4) (Cont on Pg. 2; Col. 5) $400,-000,0- 00 m t. UiL churThd . RENT FREE, OVERHEAD FREE, and with no possibility of loss, they just raise our tax. The value of these government-owne- d corporations is estimated from 50 to 100 bilion dollars; and if these were sold to private enterprise, this amount of money could be deduct- ed from the national debt, and these same corporations would go on American tax rolls, paying the corporation tax, city tax, county tax and school tax; thereby helping to finance all local issues, and since it would eliminate the apnual loss of 38 billion dollars, which is the exact amount of the personal income tax paid, the personal income tax can and should be abolished. In order to euchre some one out of his money all you need to do is say . . . You want to help the unfortunates, the underprivileged of the wQrld dont you? Or, The United States is the richest nation in the woriditJ-.Why shouldnt; share of thei they give wealth toVtfiib other countries! The best a9i$KjsF. . . My f It is estimated these corporation would pay corporate income, taxes to the Federal Government in the This itWfaia..takei amount of 8ft billion dollars per from anoutil! xouhtiy4 year and this could be used to . . . Thats C&iDf reduce the debt annually, and through the repeal of the 16th Amendment, the United States of Somehow, '6r ' debt-free be America could and should fense d book fi within a period of 25 years. & "on Look magazine cooperaj week with Municipal, in handing out cities have done, selves. This.ii kill-- nt goodni . TTe f Of scribed is the conniving that smells. Community Development program at Kearns, Utah, appears to be another Happiness Pill . . Looks real good on the outside . . We call it Pavlovian Salivating. The bell rings, but no dinner; it just looks and sounds good. . |