AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1931, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

A COMMISSION'. EQUALITY OF WAR BURDENS. iUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 10.35 n.m.) WASHINGTON, Vlaivh 5. A Commission, composed of member's of tin* Cabinet and Senate House, met to-day to work out a plan for equalising the burdens of the next war. Vlr Hurley, chairman of Committee created by Congress, announced that on? purpose would be to develop policies by which the economic burdetns of war will fall with equal weight on every element of citizenship. He said the Commission would seek tin. reasons why in the Government's efforts to supply needs in all past wars, an opportunity hud been presented to some individuals to reap an extraordinary financial profit while others had been called upon to bear., more than their proportionate share of the burdens. Ho said the Commission was forbidden, under its authorising resolution, from considering conscription of labour. TAXATION ACT. VICTORIA, I British Col.), March 5. An Amendment to the Taxation Act, providing for a universal tax of one per cent, on all classes of income, was announced by the Minister of Finance, Vlr J. W. .Jones, in Ins Budget speech in the Legislature on 'l'lmischiv night. The impost, which will be in addition to the regular provincial income tax is expected to yield two and a half million dollars. T'lio only exemption will be incomes of less than twelve dollars weekly, and those receiving mother’s pensions, old age pensions, war disability pensions, and incomes from operations of farms.