The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-04
c. S. Goff Announces
For Representative

Mark Twaints famous remark
about the weather - Everybody
talks about it but nobody does
anything about it"-could just as
well apply to the tax problem in
Arizona, according to c. S. Goff,
businessman and former mayor of
Casa Grande, who this week makes
announcement of his candidacy for
representative to the state legisla-
ture from this district.
81 have been intensely interested
in the tax problem of our state
for a number of years" Mr.. Goff
says in making his announcement.
"and it is because there at last
seems hope of something being
done about it that l am now inter
ested in going to the legislature.
Every candidate for governor is
pledged to a comprehensive tax
reform program, but it is a well
known fact that such a program
will depend entirely upon the de-
termined and intelligent coopera-
ton of the Legislature"
Mr.. Goff gains his interest and
an intimate knowledge of the COM
plex tax problem not only from
his long experience as a business
man, but also to an even greater
extent from his work on the city
council of Casa Grande since 1881
Upon his shoulders during that
time has fallen the heavy task of
bringing order from the chaos into
which city finances were plunged
when taxable values dwindled and
delinquencies piled up in 1912
33 task made the more appalling
for Casa Grande fathers because
of the excessive burden of i'm
provement bonds previously in
Cured by the city. During the
most critical period he was made
mayor and was not relieved of
his job as spokesman for the city
until the crisis was passed a year
ago when refunding negotiations
were completed.
Not only has he displayed un-
usual ability in coping with muni-
cipal problems of tax and finance,
but the former mayor also knows
the same problems thoroughly from
the standpoint of the taxpayer,
since he has been head of the Goff
Chevrolet Company during the
same period of tax distress.
81 pledge myself unequivocally
to give my full influence and en-
ergies to an intelligent attack on
the states tax problems for the
purpose of equalizing the burden
and of simplifying and tightening
it," Mr.. Goff says. "I am very
strongly in favor of doing some
thing about this thing we have
been talking about.
One thing I will try to get done
if possible will be to secure for
the business man some relief
from this great burden of tax re-
ports that add to the tax cost for
the business firm"
Next in Importance to the tax
problem he places the civil service
issue. Our state and its people
are ready for a civil service law as
the only way out of the patronage
muddle in which our state gov
ernment is becoming more deeply
mired each year." he says. 1T IS
of great Importance that any CIVIL
service law we adopt be enacted
only after the most careful study
and preparation, SO that it may be
fair and practical. The enactment
of a civil service code that would
prove a failure would set us back
many years in this important move
ment."
Another project close to the
heart of the former mayor is the
revision of motor vehicle registra-
ton laws. AS an automobile dealer
interested in the convenience OF
the motoring public he has observ-
ed the great loss of time and
money due to the present cumber-
some method that requires the car
owner to journey to the county
seat to obtain license plates, as
we'll as the excessive tax exacted;
and has some very definite ideas
as to how the registration system
can be simplified and the tax more
fairly equalized.
"My eight years work in con-
nection with municipal problems