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Show UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. November 2. 1993 - Page IS More cigarette taxes unfair and unwise Smokers in Utah agree: there are Americans in dire need of critical health care provisions, but tax- - !3s8otS Bosley, president the Utah Smokers Alliance. No one. We come into the world needing it We leave the world needing ' STATE FAIR WINNERSMeagfrer McGonkie, left, of Ahamont, won intermediate champion showmanship honors at the 1993 Utah State Angus Show in Salt Lake City. Reserve intermediate showmanship honors went to Courtney Walker, right, of Ml Home. Photo by American Angus Association. Fair-Junio- r checklist for your automobile Pre-wint- er I recently, use a tester (available inexpensively at any auto parts store) of Autumn. Winter! just around to make sure its still going to prothe comer, which means ifi time to tect your car cm the coldest possible If the test shows the fluid is get your ear ready for the foul days. weak, changeit; check your owner's weather ahead. e con"Its tough on cars when the tem- manual and the to be use sure the tainer proper you peratures drop and the snow starts mixture of and water; to fly," says August Alegi, group Willyourbatterysurviveacold vice president of Government Emwinter? Amechanic can check your ployees Insurance- Company and charging system to battery (GEICO). Minor problems can make sure they are in good working quickly become serious ones unless condition. you take steps now to prepare your available Do you have car for winter driving. outside in car case your locks your Alegi suggests you ask yourself You wont have to worry freeze up? the following questions to ensure about driving in bad weather if you safe travel in the months ahead. ' cant get into your car. Is your cars engine properly to handle Are tuned? An engine is hard winter you preparedand practice Study driving? to on and to start stalling prone winter driving techniques (your those chilly winter mornings. state police or local AAA should Are your tires ready for slipreeource material available) have pery roads? Make sure your car's assure a safe trip everytime tohelp tires meet your statesrequirements behind the wheel you get for driving during snow emergen"Winter driving doesnt have to cies. Your state police can tell you be chore if a you and your car are or snow whether Alegi says. Take time prepared, tins are needed. to Have you checked your radiator before the temperature drops to both sure make ready youre fluid? If you havurt changed it meet winters worst Dont be fooled by the moderate temperatures and crisp, dear akiee anti-freex- anti-frac- M de-ic- er out-of-tu- ne . we dont knowwhat the plan will do and we doit know how much its going to cost The one thing we do know is this:American smokers are not only -- Bosley recalled that it was just about a year ago, on September 24, 1992, that candidate Clinton stood before a gathering at Merck, the eassssBsS reform package feat would involve NO NEW TAXES AT ALL This is a private plan. It is not pay or play. It does not require new taxee. Those were Bill Clintons words, Bosley said. That was Bill Clintons pledge to voters. Now were faced wife the prospects of a health plane thats going to cost a minimum of $419 billion over the next six years and, according to fee latest projections, may end up costing nearly double that, Bosley said. Clinton is no magician. He cant pull money out of a hat, for health care or anything else. The truth is paying their fair share of taxes already, they're payingmore some $11 billion mow. We are taxed too much already and are about to start paying even more for the biggeet tax increase in UJ3. history. Its not fair. And no one - no one - can deny - . that Congress shouldnt pass a bill feat takes even one more cent in taxes from American smokers. it And sooner or later, we all need it in between. The problem is its expensive and getting more expensive every day. But to expect smokers to pay for it through some outrageous tax hike on cigarettes is not onto unfair, its unsound fiscal policy, he said. Bosley pointed out that for more than a decisde, uncontrolled health costs have been rising much faster than other coats in the country. "America now far spends more per person for health care than other mqjor countries do, Bosley said. Holding up a "Consumer Reports article from 1992, Bosley indicatedit showed thatofthe $817 billion spentby Americans anhealth care in 1991, at least $200 billion was thrown away oh overpriced, useless treatments and on abloated bureaucracy. Infect, Bosley said, "FonnerUJS. Secretary ofHealth, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano has said the amount of, and I quote: "fraud and abuse is enough to provide all the health-car- e coverage all Americans need. We wouldn't have any system if gaps in our health-car- e we could apply that to health-car- e Introducing New John Deere 92-h- p 7200 and 100-h-p 7400 Tractors turbocharged power. 100-h6.8 L engines. hydraulic system. Tremendous lift capacity: 7,400 lb. standard, 890 lb. optional Productive ComfortGard cab standard. g CasterAction MFWD available. Built in Waterloo, Iowa. A Fuel-efficie- 5.9 L and 92-h- p High-pressur- high-capaci- p ty Tight-turnin- coverage for Americans.1 The upshot has been soaring costs. And feat has meant a loss of coverage or fewer benefits and premiums too high for millions of Americans to pay," Bosley concluded. So the presidents health care task force has decided 25 percentof Americans, smokers, will foot the bill for everyone else, Bosley said. Clearly, Bosley continued, That violates all sense of fairness that this nation cherishes. Not so oddly enbugh, theres not much squawking going on about it, because smokers have become the target of the same kind of discrimination directed at racial minorities. health-insuran- ce Were first-clas- s treated like second-clas- s hesaid. taxpayers citizens, "All of us want something done about health care. Something has to be done about it or the onto ones wholl be able to afford health care in the future will be doctors and other health professionals wife fee salaries to pay for it Buttheresahiddenfall-outtha- t will occur if a hugs federal excise by Cheryl Mecham tax is levied, a fall-ofee governmant isn't telling people about, Now greater fears assail me, "Growing old is not for nsayk." Bosley said. such as: loss of short-termemory, Who said that? George Bums? When smokers quit or cut back, loss of my teeth, loss of my eye- cigarette sales will fall end wife Perhaps Bob Hope? I cant rememsight. them will go Utah state taxes, curber. I guess Im getting old. Who So many things have already rently collected at the rate of 26 ever said the old man was right. been misplaced. For instance: my cents a pack. waistline, energy, stamina, paI do remember my Mother and Bosley indicated feat based on a tience. recent Price Waterhouse study, Grandmother and I, comfortably These things I dearly miss. Utah stands to lose $3.3 million a seated before the T.V, waiting fix: The other day I was waiting in year if the federal cigarette tax is into Minutes Matinee. the Sunday the movie Grandmother would ask the lobby of the emergency room increased at the currently rumored for my eons hand to be "Where have I seen him before, amount of 75 cents. Then, Utah didnt ha play on.. .oh, I cant quite We suspected a broken finger. A will either have to come up with a toddler waa skipping around in new tax, or cut state programs and recall. circles. The adult who attended her services to cope wife the loss. This would open up frenzied said over and over, If I had that dialogue between my mother and Bosley said thatshort memories " ticked seconds As the much seem to run rampant in Congress. grandmother. energy on they somehow became game Was she repeating herself T also guess they failed to read the show contestants, nervously blurtbecause she couldn't remember March 1993 study by the Council of ing out possible answers. This what she had just said? Why State Governments, which inditense dialogue would continue until wasn't she finishing her sentence? cated that the percentage of revthe actoiactroaa was identified, What would she do if she had that enue generated by consumer excise and then and only then could we much taxes dropped steadily during fee energy? ait beck, breath out a sigh of relief, IYe forgotten all of the things I 1980s. That study pointed out that and only then watch the movie. did when I had energy. Obviously excise taxes on such products as A decade has passed since we alcohol and tobacco are Srom-ou-f she did too. watched the Sunday Matinee One comfort to ms is the feet as tax sources, and urged together. Unbelievably I caught licymskers to lock elsewhere for that my spouse grows old with me. for their programs and myself in the act. ..The actor was He wears glassss now, groans Gene Hackman. Maybe this all when he tiss hie shoes. His hair is vices, Bosley said. seems all the more poignant beIffeeprasidentdoesntlika their thinning. Ws are now one of those cause another year was marked, middle-age- d married couples, wife opinion, maybe hed prefer that of the Congressional Budget Office, this month I celebrated yet another and indigestion. Birthday. But then is something satisfy- which called cigarette taxes the most regressive1 of all taxes, he And so I have faced the dreaded ing about growing older. You fear of becoming my mother, I realize your half way there. The added. "Smokers are fee very same, waved the white flag. I surrenend of your fee road an earth. So and working dered, seeing the inevitability of you stop wasting your, time, you mostly middle-clas- s Bill said Clinton last year evolution. You say people say "NO" and mean of need in relief. tax were Already to YES" because your happy Bill Clinton has increased our gasoabout more care and you accept, line taxes, and fee tax trickle-dow- n being respected than being liked. on the middle class from Clintons wonderftd love a I know and new rates on wealthier Americans be to me tells hes he going man, 70. If I could grow old end become will-- soon start, Bosley added. 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