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Show MUST PAY FOR SERVICE Salt Lake City placed its tax levy at 114 mill? and immediately the city .puthorHies were notified the levy would not bp extended on th general tax rolls Following this action by the board of county commissioners, the city took measures to obtain a wri; of mandate Irom ihe supreme court to compel the county to carry the city tax levy into effect. It Is Insisted that to refuse to extend the lew "constitutes B pub HH lie wrong which may seriously prejudice preju-dice the tax levy fixed by the board of commissioners of Salt Lake City according ac-cording to law, as well as embarrass the said city in its fiscal operations." It is charged that these acts are unwarranted, un-warranted, capricious and in plain disregard dis-regard of the duty of the county officials, of-ficials, and. If proceeded In will result re-sult in damage to the city. Our tax laws are weak in that tax levying bodies are letl in a position of uncertainty as to their powers. Al-. Ihough the law is plain that deficits must not be incurred, here is an example exam-ple of a city demanding certain revenues reve-nues in order to avoid a deficit and another body of officials blocking the obtaining of the full amount of revenue reve-nue necessary to good financing. City tax expenditures generally are in response to an unmistakable and Insistent public demand. City officials constantly are fighting down expend-(ujifn expend-(ujifn ltures, but, with growing persistence, the public demanding moro and better bet-ter public service, the obtaining of which requires more money and, therefore higher taxes. Every day Individual In-dividual responsibility is being transferred trans-ferred to public sorvice Even the care of children at play Is today looked on as a public charge and duty. The city is expected to be paternal ind helpful to a degree unthought of thirty years ago. |