Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-01-07

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publishing this statement just as it came to us, as we are in perfect
sympathy with the taxpayers in Carbon county in their efforts to re-
duce taxes, o n we should say, to equahze taxation.
We re satisfied that the members of this association are well
but at least t some of them are mlsinior%ed' or misguided in
The taxation question has been a problem for ages and probably
s smd be ss for for wears res to come 70" al There sI,m is plenty Of f 5o ,, for Improvement, i'm stSrt We n
IN sending the right kind Of men to the Legislature
Yet they send men to the legislature who create more laws
a add mGFe red t tape and ,%as enforce hore II ideas ssnt and conditions Gsrr upon 1T the sfs e0unty
of the law. We believe that the county officials have the deepest
material saving to be affected by county officials voluntarily reduce
m as ,nsiG eu Gsn ss s9ia sSst T rs would as1s only ya b t 7 drop Tsx1 in tss busssi, GSg
that the reduction of wages is the proper method of reducing taxes;
probability, the school trustees will be compelled to reduce salaries
f 1d teachers ! b tsi in order as r. to sn keep the ga"sa Q open eo.d but this this shad not ;, reduce ns
constituted ssns eut, THIS u. is n. no fault .I Of the !, county officials over which they
elimination of any. unnecessary deputies; but in passing, W e might
call attention to Chapter 81 Of the session laws of 1891 and section
counties having not fewer than IS public school teachers in districts
IS teachers in such districts. This, the county commissioners have not
done o." a q the county superintendent says she can handle her work with
month in this office alone. If the Taxpayers Association will specify
to join with them in seeing to it such jobs abolished, but mere
statements item Sts. and nd ge neral "a will not 60 g
to the managerial form of county government for the reason that it
who does not even have to be a citizen Of Montana. Unquestionably,
under the managerial form of government, under the law that was
pOyees to carry out the provisions of the law. But why discuss the
and unavoidable that there is nothing to fear from it? We wish to
call attention to the constitution of Montana, Article 16, section S
which enumerates all the officers that must be elected by the vote of
the people. This managerial law is clearly in conflict with the consti-
tuition and it is not necessary to get all hd up owe something that
cannot happen. The News wants to reierate its opposition to the pres
ent high seool law passed by the last legislature which raised every
taxpayer's taxes In Carbon county and in fact in the state of Montana.
We still insist thGtlE the taxpayers really want to reduce the taxes,
they should send men to the legislature who will pledge themselves
to repeal the abominahe bood-sucking conglomerati0n of poorly con-
structed high school laws. On December Is, Mr.. S. C. Merriman. a
plain the high school law--aeeordinr to the Picket Journal. but ut the
News would be perfectly willing to offer a prize to anyone who would
have the nerve to say that Mr.. Merriman's explanation anything
more than a superfuny of meaningless words. We want to remind the
taxDaVerS that yu are having higher favas or accourt &c ths Ir
and wiz continue to do SO until it is repealed; we want to take issue
With fhegiaxpayers Association in which they referred to the editor
ii IN the News in reference to the legislature effecting economies.
The Taxpayers Association contended that only eight per cent of
our tax money is spent by the legislature and 80 per cent is spent in
our county The legislature makes the laws, creates the boards. and
makes II mandatory upon county officials to carry out the law which
consumes the local taxes. For an example, the last session of the leg
isiature made a change in the law in reference to automobile license
plates which increased the cost to the county and reduced the eff
cheney A fen-year-old boy could legblate better than this law and
this applies to hundreds of laws on the statute books that should be
repealed.
Let's send to the legislature a set of legislators who will pledge
to repeal laws rather than to pass laws. The News again
reiterates its pledge tc join with any association in selecting a legis-
lative ticket who will pledge themselves TO abolish the railroad com
mission, the state equalization board, and repeal the obnoxious high
school law that was passed by the last legislature.