Show NO RADICAL TAX REFORM there will probably be no radical revision of taxation laws in utah at this session of t the he legislature the proposition to change from the uniform rate of taxation to a system of special classification has been rejected twenty one out of twenty eight counties gave a majority of against it at the last election and for good reasons war prosperity of mining interests which will vanish like spring snow with the coming of oc peace made them a target for attack but mining is ia an all industry that cannot be singled out for penal lation without hurting financial and industrial interests of the whole state to begin with no radical tax measure is possible without a change in the st state ate con constitution ution and there is no occasion for it changing the old valuation from thirty to per cent for assessable valuations from in 1915 to in ili 1916 the state has a bonded debt of only and under the new valuations this can call be increased by if needed county school district and city debts aggregate if road bond issues tire are required they can be made without any change and the same is true about increasing municipal bond issues to grant a commission or board or any other body power and levy arbitrarily upon different kinds of property is dangerous concentration of authority the same proposition has been rejected in most moat western states and probably would be if tax reformers went to t a vote of the people with it |