Show ED EDITORIAL WHY NOT THE GAl TAX I Large owners of trucks commercial cars are re fighting the proposed tax on gasoline Why I Presumably this campaign IS II being made for the owner and driver of the flivver I The average flivver owner drives hi his car miles a year I Gets 20 miles to the gallon of gas I or consumes gallons of gas a a Two hundred fifty gallos at 2 cents the tax price is 6 25 a a year The proposed license reduction on flivvers is 5 a year So is what it costs the flivver owner lis to insure having good roads to ride on an Owners of large fleets of coma commercial com com- commercial commercial I comI a mercial cars and trucks however use use up our roads as well vell as enor enor- enormous amounts of gasoline For Foi Fort Forthe t pay the purpose of doing business they the pay a a small license and a property I tax on their car cars And not one I cent do they pay forthe fortne priVIlege of doing business on our splendid roads which have test the taxpayers tax I payers of this state millions dollars and which thes these errs curs are ar arthe the chief chiet d despoilers of These Th s road aristocrats these monster trucks that placidly ply I the middle of our paved high high- highways I ways never budging an inch out of dead center when you meet them are the chief opponents of the gasoline tax as well as chief I destroyers of our roads I The gas tax will mIl make them help the st state te highways in re repair repair pair As well as collect a small revenue from the host boat of tourists cars glide over our hard surfaced highways h while viewing Utah's wonderful and magnificent magn magnificent l- l lI I cent scenery Why not the gas tax |