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Show Demand K.mIik tii-11 in I tail j A Campaign of iuvusillgsitioii Ua: been on in tliB Sta'o of Utah for Home months, mainly coiolei.-ied by the Stat..'. Kami ISureau. Thi' organization in speaking lor the farmers of the stair; and siniiLod in to secure a 25 per cent reduction in the assessment of farm proper! y. Ah a part of their campaign they have been active In bringing pre.ss.ii re to bear upon public official:) and especially es-pecially upon school boards and school officials to make every effort to reduce expenditures and thereby make it possible to reduce taxation, i Speaking for the fanners, their efforts along the lino of economy, have met with a hearty response ami their educational campaign lias been Quito effective. The constitution of the slate provides pro-vides that all property shall he assessed as-sessed equally. Closer analyses of the actual assessment on farm property, prop-erty, which iu tlie main represents only a fraction of theassessed valuation valua-tion of the slate, shows that if is now assessed for below full value. The demand is being made in Oregon, that farm properly he tssjs-sod tssjs-sod at only 50 per cent of its cash value, while all other property is .to to be assessed 100 cents on the dollar dol-lar as the laws in some states resuire As a matter of practical experience, "full value" tax laws are "dead letters" in every state having them. Like other property such as livestock, live-stock, orchards, and timber lands, their "full value," and cash vaule is very variable, depending upon the market demand. In Utah, as in some other slates, an effort will be made to enact and secure the adoption in the legislature legisla-ture or by direct vote of the people of what is known as a graduated income in-come tax. It is doubtful if any western states having large undeveloped unde-veloped resources and great natural wealth that depends upon outside capital and investment for development, develop-ment, will seriously consider enacting enact-ing a state income tax on top of a federal income tax. internal revenue taxes and state and local praperty taxes, and in many cities occupation taxes. T',he federal taxes falling upon all states alike, do not discriminate dis-criminate against capital in any one state, as a state income tax would do |
