On May 23, 1931, Heber Kimball said, "After a while the gentiles will gather by the thousands in this place, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the saints, and the results will be financial bondage."
On Oct. 8, 1876, Brigham Young said, "If the latter day saints do not desist from running after the things of this world and begin to reform and do the work that the Father has given them to do, they will be found wanting, and they too will be swept under."About 30 years ago, David 0. Mckay said, "If the people do not separate their needs from their wants, their wants will magnify like maggots in the sun and they will be in bondage."
Now, I know that the above advice is from church leaders, and taxes are not really a church issue, but all of us know that an individual, church or government (state or local) cannot spend more money than it takes in without putting the people in bondage to pay the debt.
My dad was not a church leader, but I remember him saying years ago (probably in a fit of anger over a tax raise) that the day would come when we would have to pay for the air we breathe. As I rode along in my car the other day, I was watching a jet vapor trail dissipate in the sky and I thought, yep, my dad was right. Now that we can no longer con the airlines into paying for that air space, taxpayers will have to start paying for the air that we breathe.
Rae C. Scholes
Roosevelt