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Show W ' ' y i Burton H. Adams States Views On Government When a man has rendered satisfactory sat-isfactory service in a well paying political job for more than five years and decides to give up that job and run for an office that doesn't pay expenses there must be something more than appears on the surface. County Commissioner Commis-sioner Burton H. Adams, who is now a candidate for the State Senate, Sen-ate, is not all loath to give his reasons for seeking to make that change. The primary reason is just this. As a Commissioner, Mr. Adams has learned that every effort to give the county economical and efficient government has been strangled or ham-strung in some way by state laws and regulations leading to obnoxious controls, and double taxation. Adams has decided decid-ed that he can do more effective work by fighting these evils at their source. Most important, Mr. Adams believes, be-lieves, is double taxation and certain cer-tain evils of the state welfare setup. set-up. Here is one specific instance as an illustration. When an aged or infirm person is sent to a privately operated "rest" home, in this county the state pays $105 per month for that person's subsistence. sub-sistence. If that person becomes so ill or infirm that the rest home no longer cares to kep him he must be sent to the County Infirmary. Then, though the people of this county have already paid sales taxes for just that purpose, the state allowance drops to $68.00 per month. Therefore the state is able to save itself $37.00 per month. In -addition ,to that other counties coun-ties may dump their aged and infirm in-firm into this county by placing them in "Rest" homes, where after af-ter one year they become citizens of the county. The real cost, which has in the past run as high as two thousand dollars por individual, individ-ual, is often due to the fact that such individuals may need doctor's attention and hospitalization all of which the state escapes. The Utah State Tax Commission is now on a home reappraisal project pro-ject in Utah County that will possibly pos-sibly be completed by January 1, 1955. This program will continue through the state into the other counties, becoming complete in five years as we understand it. The point is this, should Utah County home owners commence paying additional ad-ditional taxes as a result of this program five years in advance of districts farther down the schedule, sched-ule, or should we all have an even take off? Mr. Adams promises the property owners of Utah County Coun-ty that he will do his utmost in having the code specify an even break for his constituency if nominated nom-inated and if elected. Mr. Adams is also a leader in the fight against Salt Lake County taking any more water out of this basin by means of wells. After a precedent has been set a ring of wells could be dug around the rim of this valley that would most seriously ser-iously injure Utah County's water supply. This, too, is a matter that must be fought at state rather than county levels. Five years and a half of being hampered by outmoded statutes, discriminatory tax assessments, and high-handed "regulations" has convinced Mr. Adams that the place to fight this sort of injustice is at the State Capitol. Those fam-ilar fam-ilar with Burton Adams' record will agree that there is no one better qualified to fight them. Commissioner Adams emphasized emphasiz-ed the fact that he is not against privately operated Rest Homes as such; but against the above enumerated en-umerated abuses. (Paid Political Adv.) |