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Show Unfair And Dangerous Tax No. 2 on next Tuesday's ballot Is a proposition that would tax certain chain stores in amounts ranging up to $5,000 a year per store exempting chain oil stations, sta-tions, the big chains made up of independent merchants, and all other competitors of the companies compa-nies affected. This fantastic extra ex-tra tax would be levied against any of its chain store victims which sought, for example, to move from one location to another, an-other, no matter how necessary the reason. The Pyramid holds only the most sympathetic and cooperative coopera-tive attitude toward the problems of independent merchants, but we honestly believe that enactment enact-ment of No. 2 not only would prove of no real benefit to in-dependet in-dependet merchants, but would prove a positive and very serious disadvantage to all the people of Utah. The proposed tax is a punitive measure and not regulative. The chain store death tax should be decisively defeated, and the only way it can be beaten is for all of us to vote against No. 2 on next Tuesday. |