jg IN THE ATTENTION CO-OP MEMBERS: ■ft If you don't VOTE, you won't be HERD ! Here are the facts: You will be receiving a BALLOT from the PA Department of Agriculture the week of May 3rd requesting that you vote YES or NO for a MANDATORY Milk Promotion Program. If the program is passed, $.lO per CWT will be deducted from your milk check. Passage means if YOU produce 2,000 pounds per day, YOU will pay $730 per year or $3650 for five years. This is a MANDATORY program. If passed, every dairyman in the commonwealth would be required to contribute BY LAW. NO producerJßEFUNDSare permitted. Pennsylvania dairy farmers will pay over $9 million per year, this five-year program will cost Pennsylvania dairymen over $45 million. Think about $45 million leaving our counties with no assurance of return. The program's advertising will be non-brand only a costly experiment at best.. This MILK INCOME TAX could jeopardize effective voluntary brand-name advertising programs. This is a state government program NOT a producer program. The Secretary of Agriculture has veto power over all spending decisions. Most government programs DO NOT work. on the MILK DAIRYMEN CAST YOUR BALLOT Wi * PROPOSED MILK REFEREND MAY 8-22, 1982 It's your decision VOTE NO NO MILK’ TAX COMMITTEE P.O. Box 121 Harrisburg, PA 17108 INCOME TAX Deduction failure to vote will give your cooperative the i for you. Even though you've received a poll fi cooperative, you must VOTE AGAIN to make count. Paid for by concerned dairymen who have formed the Satardai Lancaster Fanning,
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