| Show UTAH SHOULD BE CAREFUL elou enough ih now new boards and commissions are proposed at the coming session of the legislature to require hundreds of thousands of dollars additional tax money utah has been fortunate in the past in having fewer of these coin commissions missions than her neighboring pacific Coast states california oregon and washington are advertised the united State as having the highest taxes of acx adv states in tha union n th their air taxes are more than and one of the states is nearly treble the general aver cje age for foi theU S and in making the avera average Q the rate yf these three states is why are their taxes so high simply because they cave ave all al the burdensome V I 1 eminent caused by innumerable in boards and commissions commission city county and state and only a jim limited population to pay therill the bill much drastic legislation has beer been passed in these states to regulate industries which had hac barely got a foothold high taxes and such policies have greatly retarded the investment of capital the states have had the fun of passing the laws and supporting boards and commissions but they have had to pay the bill the big thing the politicians failed to pass was a bill requiring capital to invest and as a matte fact that was the one bill they could not pass they could regulate the investor out of business and drive him away with high taxes and drastic legi lation but they could not make min him put his money where conditions d were unattractive now the tide has turned and the last two elections the people have voted down every radical measure on the ballot and the main fight is to cut down overhead and taxes eliminate unnecessary commissions and p pass ass no more industry killing legislation in fact they are going farther and asking the repeal of freak laws now on the statute books before it is too late utah should take warning from lier her sister state and not pass legislation that will check the bodei god stream now pouring into the state eve everything mone hing within reason must be done to encourage our and nothing should be done to discourage it one investor employing 50 man men me means as much more to the state than a dozen new office holders j utah can afford to go slow and profit by the experience of oth ers |
