Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-09 | Page 21 | Expect Higher Taxes on Gas

I I II EXPECT HIGHER TAXES ON H AS A Highway Magazine Says That Motorists Must Pay Road Bills The motorist must pay the tho road ro I ills llIs ot of the future and II a cent nS-cent cent S-cent tax Is la not far tar tant dis- dis distant tant The d of ot automobile 0 for tor mor more and better high burden of ot tl- tl fl that the w ts a their construction and be maintenance n necessarily must assumed by tho those o vho ho will I benefit most mo t from them j Hostility to term long bond Jq- Jq js li sues for tor road Improvement ement Is I etl-I e l e t-I t I Its t everywhere wh where re In 1111 noli 1111 associations a are alo aloI noh automobile I opposing the projected I ct d bond issue for tor road Improvement not because ot of the amount rd in d hut but butcO contemplated work ed d or the cO e of or the method propose proposed l to pay pay foi fm It California which high h i h-i toI I benefited as much It rr not mote mOle than her sister states by her bold 1 I tam of or highway a de development program pro Is far Car s sympathetic lq tor additional l bond Issues to complete th the state states s system oCI ot or I toads ro The The Thc general l which Is usually usually usually ally slow to lo comprehend nd the ms- ms mis tlc ot o ilch finance ahas lk a awakened ned to the futility has has at last ty of attempting all to cleate road ro-ld systems SJ systems bonding method I PY- PY y by the debts on states counties PY-I PY and communities is a short cut to national But Mr 1111 Ordinary Citizen I Is be- be beginning bc ginning to realize more Inore than this lie He appreciates the fact bond bondi i sues are not onlan only an e c plan of financing but that the donot do not equitably distribute the bur bur- burden bur burden d den n of highway hig a financing bel between beleen bur I een the user and user non-user of the road It Is significant and a good omen that tins this general sentiment Is be- be beginning beginning be beginning I ginning ginning- to permeate the automo automo- automobile automobile automobile bile associations of oC the country countr bich to co 0 with mold mold- molding molding which ha hate hale e ouch ing the attitude altitude of o their members Hard to-Hard to ard I legislation and schemes The executives os osof of these thee organizations or are begin begin- beginning beginning ning to reach the conclusion that thata thata CI a great share hare of highway extension cork ork of the future will ill motorist and that that quit demands that the motorcar owner o r n toot foot the bills The experience of mam states with nith the gasoline tax ta method of securing rev ref for tor road construction construction tion ilon has provi i so l T Tto to both the load road building agencies and the motorists that It Is quite probable this scheme will be the basIs of ot all financing methods for tor some time timo to come Its simplicity flexibility erso e of collection small losses through evasion and In the main maLn Its fairness combine to male It a 0 a popular plan and any scheme ot of taxation that Is popular Is bound to be successful Long Long- term bonds with their back breaking Interest charges are doomed and the gasoline or some similar form of o direct tax tae which Insul es a dollars dollar's worth north orth of ot work ork fOI every e cry dollar expended is hr here hereto hereto hereto to V sla-V stay stay Western estern aSs Builder Builder Build Build- er