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Show ! TAXES GETTING A STRANGLE HOLD ON PEOPLE Utah Tax payer. , Citizens: You better wake up and get to thinking. j In the 10 years from 1933 to 1942 property taxes in Utah were increased $1,082,000 or 6: In the 3ame period county taxes jumped from $1,877,000 to $3,816,000 or 103. Cities increased from $3,363,000 to $4 004,000 or 16. Property ' taxes for state purposes in 1933 were $1,202,000 and nothing 5n 1942. It cost Salt Lake County. 54 more to operate iti half of the City and County Building than it did the City. The respective re-spective figures are $33,057 and $21,416. The County management mana-gement needs some "house Cleaning." The sheriff of Salt Lake County receives 30c per meal for feeding enemy aliens and 15c for feeding other prisoners. The cost per meal at the State Prison is under 10c. |