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Show GOOD ADVICE Members of the next legislature need not feel themselves bound by the statement of the Utah tax commission that unless the tax amendment is adopted "the legislature's hands will be tied so that no relief can be given to classes of property now overtaxed." The legislature can give relief in many ways. It can pass a law that compels local taxing units to keep within certain limits. It can rigidly, limit necessary appropriaitons and eliminate entirely those not absolutely essential. It can suspend the well-meant but expensive programs that attempt through the schools and otherwise to relieve parents of all the responsibility and duty of parenthood except producing pro-ducing revenue. It can cut out flocks of commissions, inspectors and investigators whom we arc now paying to annoy 90 per cent of us because a few unasaimilatcd brothers from across the sea do not use the bathtub regularly. All these acts and many others that will come to the notice of the legislature can be accomplished without the adoption of amendment amend-ment No. 2. They do not require an income tax, a classified property prop-erty tax or any other experimental tax and they absolutely will give relief; the kind of relief and the only sort of relief the people of Utah need until conditions become settled, namely, less need for tax revenues. |