Show i I I I I TAXPAYERS ASH ASI C fOR 25 PER CENT TAX REDUCTION N j i he men representing the Utah Taxpayers Taxpayers' Association who should have addressed the County tax meeting in the high school auditorium auditorium aud aud- failed to show up and the time was taken laken up by local speak speak- ers era rs Geo B. B Cox ox who w was s In charge of tho meeting stated tl the e purpose of the meeting was to appoint a u committee to visit taxing units and work to hold budgets at the lowest Po possible level lovel After referring to tho bad condition of things Peter P P. P P. P Dyreng read rad the resolutions passed at the meeting of ot the Utah Taxpayers Taxpayers' Association at Salt Lako Lake City an and then expressed tho the opinion opinIon opinion ion that hat there should be a tax reduction reduction reduction re re- re- re of 34 per cent The he possibility of getting betting the final fi ft ti nal date late of ta tax Sax settlement put off oft until June 1 1932 was discussed While such an arrangement 13 is pos possible sible sable those who have hatie investigated st stated the m matter was in ill the lands hamis of oC the tho supreme court and the outlook outlook outlook out out- look look w was s not favorable Dr W W. P. P Winters spoke of the greed and graft of oC office holders sand and nd the plight of ot the farmers arine He further stated state that he was one vrho 1 Who had ad asked the county commisto commis- commis stoners to publish a a. full and complete complete com com- county financial statement We elect men t to 0 office Jn in our county we would not trust with our dinner pall pail he said Rulon Christensen of ot Gun Gunnison lson s said l that that he had a farm and It was not ot p paying that certain office hold hold- er ers s in the county were getting more per year than a good 80 SO acre farm near Gunnison was worth Attorney Lewis Larson spoke In Interestingly interestingly In- In loud on the tax and nd money oney situation in America stating that we are taking the money away from the taxpayers of ot America and sending it to Europe Rela Relative l e to totne lo local 1 t tax X situation Mr Dir Larson stated that some lan land is being assessed as assessed as- as 3 or 4 tim tines times s its actual value I 1 ought to pay taxes tax es on what I earn as a lawyer r and I am willing to do it he said When asked what the people could do about not paying their taxes he said The people have havo made mado the the laws and they cant can't be disregarded The law says taxes must be paid b by the 1st of ot December December Decem Decem- ber and neither the tUe governor nor 1101 northe the tax commission can change the l law w. w Ray P. P Lund denied t the e In Inference by P. P P. P Dyreng that the school board oard was not living within Its bud get A gentleman now living In Sanpete San San- SanPete pete but who has lived three years rears In Chicago suggested a peaceful peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful revolution re He recommended I that the meeting be organized Into Into- I I a committee whose duty It would be to get the pledge of oC every taxpayer taxpayer tax tax- p payer yer to refuse to pay PaX pa his taxes A motion b by A. A H. H Henna HenrIe was pass passed ed cd that the meeting favor an income In Income in come tax as the base of taxation Another motion carried that tho the meeting meeting favor faor a decrease of 25 percent percent per percent cent In property assessment and that the chairman appoint a committee committee committee com com- of five to work toward this end |