THE MEANS TEST
Sir, —I consider that the Means Test, as in operation, is. a restriction on the incentive to work and stagnates the natural laws of production and consumption. In referring to the above, I would quote the representative of the watersiders, Mr Barnes. He says: On the basis of the 40-hour week (Herald 15/9/48) at £5 a week, wages should be raised to £5 10s work or play (stand down time). If you cannot live on a 40hour week at a wage of £5 a week! The high cost of living being on an inflationary basis, makes it doubly urgent to relieve those who have been placed on a stool of dependency “Social Security,” at £2 5s a week. This goes 'to prove that under present conditions (inflationary) more production is required of essential goods! Production represents credit for goods and services, therefore there, should be no hard and fast rules for production, except supply and demand! To allow free access to consumer goods, there should be no* restrictions, on production such as the “Means Test” which is not constructive; but distructive, destroying the will to 'work and placing more taxation on the people and incidentally less purchasing power.
Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 83, 6 May 1949, Page 4
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205THE MEANS TEST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 83, 6 May 1949, Page 4
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