Show Better Living In Spite Of Inflation SPECIAL TO THE CLIPPER I Is the average Davis County family better off today than it was ten years ago before taxes and the cost of living started zooming skyward HAVE FAMILY Incomes in increased increased increased in- in creased sufficiently to enable local residents to live better than they did a decade ago A study completed by the Tax Foundation shows just how much more income a family must have these days to stay even with where it was in 1956 IF ITS EARNING capacity was at that ti time me it needs now now per cent more to to maintain Its way of life The year a family of other days must receive or per cent more to equal equal- ize THE FAMILY must have 11 an increase of per cent to be as well off as before In Davis County according to data compiled by the Standard Rate and Data Service most families have more than made up for the inroads caused by higher prices and bigger taxes and are living in better style i than they did previously I THE AVERAGE net income locally rose from per f family mily ten years ago to Inthe in inthe the past year It amounted to an increase of per cent which is considerably considerably considerably consid consid- more than the loss suffered suffered suffered suf suf- through inflation AS 1967 GOT UNDER way they were faced with bigger so social social social so- so cial security taxes further inflation in inflation inflation in- in and a possible increase in federal income taxes IN UTAH these taxes have climbed from per capita to 25 per capita in a a period o of f eight years It finds The rise was 54 percent |