Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-08-01 | Page 4 | Has Efficiency Been Lowered

HAS EFFICIENCY BEEN LOWERED Utah's state slate taxes tues have been In Increased in- in increased creased over a period ot of o years ti- ti titre un until til tre the demand for tor a halt had bad become be beI become become I come so 10 Insistent Ins the state elate had bad to listen to the protest and as s are are- a re- re result re remit mit sult the tax lz levy fOr tor this year ear baa been fixed by the stats plate board boud of at 73 71 7 3 mills roms Instead of 7 4 mills in la 1923 With a i state election coming onIt on onIt It would not have bave been good rood policy from a sorely portly political point of view to have gone gono on Increasing taxes Within the last year rear or two the state has ha been throwing obliga- obliga obligations lIolla upon lIpon the counties which j were recognized prior thereto as state Furthermore the tate State tate has been falling f to o function In many directions The State Industrial school the School for tor the float Beat and sod Blind BUnd the Agricultural College Collage all have beet bee n neglected gl and reduced to a point of distress Economies of that kind kindma may ma give an appearance of finan financial cial dat strength but they work more harm hann than good food The taxpayers do not want It a parsimonious administration and yet et there Is a strong demand for fer tax reduction When those reductions reduction tion e are made with them should go proof that tho the cut has not been made at the expense of efficiency