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What do you want to bet? If the property tax increase approved by the Salt Lake City Council included another of Mayor Ralph Becker's beloved bicycle trails, instead of vetoing the tax increase, the mayor would have hailed it as a breakthrough for mankind.

And thought to himself, Why didn't I think of that?

Lane Wilson

Midvale