Show utah voters to pass on amendments amendment s utah voters must pass on thread amendments to the state constitutions amendment no I 1 would increase I 1 A is to 2 pir pr cent it is ia safe to say that the minute the tha limit was kaist tile state debt and future interest bill would jump to the total 2 per cent cen allowed and the increase would be met by additional taxation amendment no 2 eau empowers powers the legislature to divide all property including moneys and credit as well as physical property into classes and to determine what class or classes of 0 property shall be subject to taxation and what property it if any shall not bo be subject to taxation instead of 0 the old theory of equal taxation which is the foundation loun dation stone ot of our government Is this amendment simply provides equal taxation upon all property in the same class properly could be divided into as many classes as political eppedi licy seemed to dictate and each class could then be taxed as heavily or as lightly ass as the case seemed to warrant the theory of equal taxation would he swept overboard and property rights would be subject to the changing whim of political agitation waves ot of radical ideas that temporarily infest any state government or any otiler othor experiment which some organization in power might wish to try in ill other voids the balance wheel ot of a sound state constitution on matters relating to taxation would be done away with in favor of a jazz system that would leave property rights in utah subject to legislative activity every two years incidentally amendment no 2 is tile the step preceding the introduction of a state income tax on top of all other taxed in utah the man who has been frugal enough to accumulate an income in the majority of in stances invests his money in real estate or productive undertakings which employ labor and pays heavy taxes in the community in which he lives A state income tax on top ot of all other taxes would be the surest way to drive tile the prospective investor and the man with money away from or out ot of tho the elate ot of utah tho third amendment to double tile the pay of 0 legislators is merely a tax raising scheme it a candidate cannot be found who has enough interest in his hia state to go to the legislature and serve to the best of 0 lus ills ability as a public duty the mere inducement of 0 an increase in salary front from to a day will not secure a better class of 0 men it will simply make a scramble tor for a political job paying SOO a day clay the candidates tor for office would be a mediocre class who ire are looking for the SOO and who are not considering the honor or the service which they could render to their state the three amendments proposed in utah have hava not been demanded or asked for by the people they are the hobbles hobbies schemes or mechanic ians of political promoters who aca abc an opportunity to increase the field of create more jobs and dig deeper into the taxpayers pocket tor for their own personal onal gain it is as certain as the sun rises tomorrow that it if these measures are passed taxes in utah will be ba permanently increased it the people want reduced taxation as appears to be the demand in ill every section ot of the state theres but one way to do vote down measures that are sure delegating the powers ot of a state slate constitution to legislative activity is just about a aa dangerous as turning a child loose with a medicine chest full ot of poison results are sure to be disastrous |