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Show ! THE POOR ARE OVER-TAXED. We are requested to give the taxes the railways would pay to ' Utah, Wyonung and Idaho by figuring only the state taxes in the three states named. It is claimed that the state officers have nothing noth-ing to do with the local taxes, as each city and county levies its own taxes without the interference of thestote. That is right, except that the state fixes the rate at which the cities and counties may tax the railroads. Here, however, arc the figures for the states named: There arc just 1,845 miles of railroad in Utah and, if assessed under the Nevada valuation of the Central Pacific railway per mile, the Utah railroads would be assessed just exactly 1,845 times 31,500 per mile, which would make a total assessment of $'58,155,500, and at G mills on the dollar, Utah would receive in cash from the railroads $342,693. But Utah only receives 7 V mills on $26,000,000 the total assessed value of all railroads which totals $195 000. This will show that under the Nevada law and assessment and tax levy Utah would get $147,000 more money than Utah is getting now. It makes no difference how you figure, if you will be honst and fair with your figures, they will show that the rich corporations in Utah are dodging over half of their just taxes, while the poor and middle classes are paying more than their just share. All of which proves that the poor man's property is over-taxed, while the corporation cor-poration property is under-taxed in the State of Utah. As both the Republicans and Democrats seems to be satisfied with existing conditions, there is only one thing to do and that is to vote for Colonel Roosevelt and the whole progressive ticket and get justicefor the common people. |