The more things change…

As the Utah legislative session comes to a close, I find it interesting to go back 76 years, to a very similar time, and see how lawmakers were wrangling with problems.
As in this picture from then, there are strange echoes with the present.
I found an interesting news story from Jan. 21, 1933. (Read it here.) In it, Democratic Sen. H.B. Maw told his colleagues frankly that the state had but three choices. “Float the proposed ($2 million) bond issue; increase the taxes; or repudiate the state’s obligations.”
I know what you all are thinking. “They listened to Democrats in Utah back then?”