| Show Y Farm Bureau Is Opposed to School Plan I Freston region Marchant information director of the the Summit County Farm Bureau Dureau and Mrs Marchant attended the the PTA Lights on for Education meeting i Th The Information was well wen presented pro pre I rented by a panel of PTA school board and faculty members The case was well made that we need needmore needmore needmore more school teachers in Utah an anti anS the teachers need a raise in pay comments Mr Marchant but the CAP plan Is 18 to place the brunt of the Increase on property Mr Marchant further states We of the Farm Bureau want Just as lIS good schools as we can afford Our best crop is our children chil chil- children dren and we want them well trained But we view with alarm the rising property tax and the lowering farm profits Followings n h an excerpt f from om the he Utah J State Farm Bureau News concern to La Utah farmers of or the the Increase in School approPriations appropriations Under present law the State Uniform School Fund receives all all- of the tha State Individual Income In In Income come coin come and arid Corporation Franchise Taxes Taxes 13 i y per cent of the sales and use taxes two cents per pack of 20 on on cigarettes weighing less than three pounds per 1000 and tour lour cents per pack of 20 on cig cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand Four per percent percent percent cent of the purchase price of li- li li liquor quor sold quor-sold sold in State Liquor Stores goes goes to the school lunch fund When additional tax support S is needed the state must resort to toa toa toa a property tax In 1961 Utah levied lev lev- led 75 mills for schools and in 1962 71 mills This Is where agriculture gets get hurt The large amount of real property required In modern farming farming farming farm farm- ing makes farmers sitting ducks for property tax A study completed by the Utah Bureau Dureau Information De In November shows chows that farmers farmers' payments into the school fund measured in terms of personal personal per per- income is several times as heavy as that born by the non- non farm sector of the states state's economy eec eco ri nomy my when property taxes levied on on on non-farm non property for schools are measured against non-farm non personal persona income Farm Bureau voting delegates in the annual convention declared that the Legislature should make a careful study of the following following following fol fol- lowing to make sure that the state is receiving the maximum revenue In fairness to all aU parties concerned Revenue from properties properties prop prop- erUes that are now escaping taxation tax tax- taxation atlon and the various excise and occupation taxed items Any revenue needed above this should be raised by increasing the personal Income business franchise fran fran- franchise chise and sales taxes People engaged in agricultural pursuits are also heavily affected by these taxes but there is a L I greater degree of equity than is I found in the application of property prop erty tax I |
