Show THEY TIlEY DO DO NOT PAY THEIR TAXES That Is the chief reason for the lack hack of oC resources forthe for forthe r the needs of oC the public service Too many people who can afford to pay taxes and who ought to pa pay va taxes taxeS' do llo not pay pa taxes at all aU Then there is another distressingly y large crowd crowll of QC f people who get much of or good out of or the governmental organization who list their property for taxation at about twentieth one-twentieth of ot the price they thoy would be bo willing willingto to take for it Senator John Y Smith makes both hoth these points fairly clear In his proposed measure for the Increase of the public revenues The state has a right to the same fair fall dealing from Crom property owners that property owners have for good service from the state They can cnn not got good service If IC the people who ho own property dodge their payment of oC taxes In ev every ry section of ot tho the country there Is the thO same sarno difficulty and it is neither right nor seemly anywhere In Salt Lake tho the tax lax rate rale Is regarded ree as being being- pretty high It Is far higher than thon it would be If It citizens were perfectly p frank trank in their dealings with the assessors and antl perfectly square with the collector Under the mistaken rule people with least ability I Ito to pay are aro compelled to pa pay most The fhe burden burien falls falls falls' most heavily on tho the very ery class which should for the good goodof of oC the community be mo most t favored That is the big body hody of oC home builders of ot struggling men on the sunny sido of forty rort who are trying with all aU their might to accumulate late hate a home and provision for their children This is the most helpful clement element in any community The They should receive a fair treatment from the men who have already reached the tho solid ground of oC a competency The They should not feel fecI that their enterprise and antl industry and frugality are made to Invoke a penalty The They should not feel teel that there Is a premium on tax dodging It is to bo be hoped that lint the authorities will find all the property and compel its owners to pa pay their Just proportion of the public expenses When Then that Is done the load will vili be evenly borne borno by b all the tho burden will rest restless restless restless less heavily on the lie deserving than it does now y and tho the fund Cund required for the service ser of the public will be v vastly bigger than It is now I v |