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Show r . I;1 A i ) CAMPAIGNS IN AREA. Dan Marriot, center, Republican Canidate for the U. S. House of Representatives and Mrs. Marriot right, discuss issues with Lee Fife of Cedar City, left.' Marriot met with political and civic leaders in Cedar City this past week. Government spending is top issue, according to Dan Marriot A need to curb growing bureaucracy, government spending, concerns about Social Security and the Welfare system w6re among the many subjects discussed in southern Utah this past week by Dan Marriott, candidate for the U. S. Congress in the second district. The candidate met with leaders in southern Utah on a swing into the area to attend the Washington County Fair in Hurricane. "It dismays me to realize that one and one-third new departments, depart-ments, agencies, bureaus, or commissions have been created - per month since 1960; Government Govern-ment seems to be getting bigger and bigger while the voice of the people gets smaller and smaller," he said. According to Marriott, government regulations, when necessary, should begin at the local Jevel, then the state, and as a last resort the federal level. "The r61e of the federal government is not to regulate every aspect of our lives and compete with us in everything that we do," he explained. "People can regulate themselves, them-selves, and they ought to be free to do so, when they can." In his campaign swing Marriott emphasized the need for legislation to protect small businesses. He identified himself as a native of Utah, the son of a Kennecott mine worker and a small businessman himself. ,, According to Marriott, small businesses are the life blood of the economy, providing more paychecks, retirement checks and job opportunitiers than any other system. "I think Congress is on a course to destroy small businesses with excessive taxation, runaway regulations and red tape, and very little incentives," explained Marriott. He maintained that if the 30,000 small businesses in Utah were given sufficient incentives and tax reliefs to enable each to hire just one person the 31,000 unemployment situation in the state could be solved. We need to stop inflation and that is a need that should begin with Congress by curbing government spending, establishing a base spending program, require a balanced budget and by getting government govern-ment out of our lives. The Republican hopeful in the September 14 Primary also took a crack at the American tax system. "Income taxes ought to be for the purpose of raising revenue, not redistributing the national wealth," he said. "Right now it's the middle class American who is taxed most heavily. The lower income groups aren't taxed; the high income groups aren't paying taxes and the middle income American is stuck with providing the bulk of the tax revenue." A solution proposed by Marriott would mean that all . Americans would pay the same percentage of their income for taxes. ' ' '"" ' ; "Nobody, in my opinion, should be more equal as a consumer con-sumer than they ; are as "a producer," he concluded. Marriott indicated that he hoped to return to southern Utah ' to discuss issues and to meet with constituants in this area. He plans to attend the Iron County Fair to be staged in Parowan over the Labor Day weekend. |
