Show ii The Boys j I Column I ut T EEN THE TilE LINES I SMILE at finding leaves or flowers flower s t pressed Between the pages agea of a worn well-worn book Loaned by a friend for always the they y r suggest Good outdoor hours houra when friend friendly y breezes shook Bright leaves across an open page beThe be bestowing bestowing be- be stowing The kindly confirmation of a tree upon noon the thoughts expressed there with h whose growing Within the mind the elements elements' agree gree And even If the leaf or flower were placed There merely for safe keeping being b brought ought It t still Is la To 10 the book from out of graced I With meaning since it H proves my friend well-taught well in the fine art of keeping lovely hours house Preserved In fragile fragUe forms forma of leaves leavea and flowers Jane Merchant o 0 oo UTAH tOU FOUNDATION DESCRIBES UTAH TAX SYSTEM 1 UTAH FOUNDATION reported today that Utahna paid a total of more than million In Federal state and local taxes and fees feea during the fiscal year ended June 30 1953 This represents an average tax burden of for everyman every everyman everyman man woman and child In the state The average family of four paid 1900 1000 In direct and hidden taxes and fees during the year More than one dollar out of every three earned In Utah last year was required to make tax pay pay- ments menta Approximately two-thirds two of this tax burden was devoted to Federal taxes taxes- taxes taxes- either direct or Indirect Utah Foundation Foundation Foundation tion analysts reported In other words warda the Federal tax load Imposed on was twice as great as the state and local tax load combined In 1940 the situation situation situation situa situa- tion was almost directly reversed with state and local taxes being twice as great as the Federal tax burden Although Federal taxes have Increased more rapidly than state or local taxes In recent years the Utah Foundation study pointed out that State and local Impositions impositions impositions are a significant part of the total Between 1940 and 1953 total state and local taxes have about trebled A recent wide nation-wide study revealed that Utah had the sixth highest combined state and local tax burden In the nation Utah's total state and local tax burden In proportion to total Income was found to be higher than that of any other Western State According to the Utah Foundation re researchers researchers researchers re- re searchers Utah levies every major kind of tax Imposed In any of the Western States with the exception of gambling taxes Most of these taxes were Imposed during the Prior to that time state and local governments in Utah re relied relied relied re- re I lied almost exclusively on the general property tax for their revenue Combined state and local taxes I amounted to In the fiscal year jear ear 1953 compared with 80 million In 1950 1650 47 million In 1945 35 million In 1940 and 26 20 million in 1930 the Utah Foundation study detailed Property taxes produced 80 of state and ant local revenue In 1930 52 In 1940 45 45 In 1950 and in 1953 The sales tax accounted for 12 of state and local taxes In 1940 1040 compared with 16 8 In 1953 Taxes on both corporate corpor corpor- ate and Individual furnished 44 of the taxes to operate state and local government In 1940 rising to 83 of the 1953 total according to the Utah Foundation study I The Utah Foundation research research report discusses the history the rates and the Impact of each of the major taxes Imposed imposed imposed Im im- im- im posed by state and local governments in Utah but with no attempt to evaluate their desirability or equity Such ron cn evaluation is currently the object of a study by the Utah Legislative Council and the Tax Commission A tax consult consult- consultIng consulting ing organization Princeton Surveys has I been employed by the state to assist In inthe in inthe I Ithe I the study A copy of the Utah Foundation research re- re re research re-I re I search report on the Utah tax system is 18 offered without charge to any Interested citizen of Utah upon written request to I Ithe i the Foundation Requests should be directed directed di directed di- di to Utah Foundation Darling building Salt Lake City The report contains con a detailed tax chart showing the complete Utah tax system the system the legal citation for each tax the year first enacted enacted enacted en en- acted the basis of the tax the rates the yield In 1953 and the purpose for which the tax revenue is used o v o NIK JA 1 A GOOD many people still seem to believe that the cost of government Isn't too important a matter for all we harp haie harto to do is 18 soak lOOk the corporations and th well-to-do well Individuals and let them do most of the paying Its It's an attractive theory theory and and Its It's also as full of holes as a colander The facts refute it loo per cent For Instance the Waseca Minnesota Journal said Confiscate If it you will kill all of the pro pro- tits fits of the corporations after taxes and you could run the U U. U 8 S. government Just 71 days Various authoritative surveys have hav e I shown that If the Incomes of all oil wealthy wealth y people were confiscated the money gained gained gain ed would run the government for a similarly brief period of time Who then N does support our unbelievably costly government Another r Minnesota paper the Le Ie Sueur News News- Herald answered that question in the these thew da simple and accurate words It Isit 1st t hard nard to figure out who pays the bulk bun k of the taxes taxes its its it's you and I and the rest of the little people 0 O O 0 XI r Gt nItH PICK UP VI Tilt THE CHICK IN 1913 when the federal tax o or n corporations was waa only one p per r cent t tai tu s exemption of publicly owned Wa was a not nut serious Conditions are far different dif dlf ferent now pow Federal tax rates on corporate corpor at ate Income have risen to 53 62 per cent Plu plus a graduated excess elcess profits tax h brings bring the over overall rate to as much a as al W 83 Pr per cent of net Income With raw rate that high bow how long can private Continued on Page Four The Boys Boy's Column Continued from Irom Pale Page One compete with tax exempt socialized en enterprise enterprise enterprise en- en In the case of electric power tax exemption ex exemption exemption ex- ex emption of public power projects could ultimately mean destruction of all taxpaying taxpaying taxpaying tax- tax paying private enterprise In the field neld an Irreparable tax loss lOlls to the country and a long step toward total state soc soc- In the last fiscal year private power companies paid more than In taxes to the fe federal government government government govern govern- ment and almost to state and local governments Since federal federal projects now have one eighth of the I country's total generating capacity they i should have paid in taxes to I Ithe the federal government and to state and local governments government They actually paid less than In lieu I of taxes to the state and local governments governments governments govern govern- ments and nothing to the federal gov- gov i gov-i I eminent There was a total tax roes loss of at around and the nations nation's taxpayers picked up the check I Its It's time to put federal power on the I tax rolls roUs and stop atop cutting the ground from under a private Industry which I renders outstanding service and which if now spending billions for expansion to meet future needs |