Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. AN EXPORT TAX.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2104, 18 March 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. AN EXPORT TAX.

SOMM of (Ik* newspaper.- of New Zealand believe that a remedy I'm’ tiie increasing cost of living' would be found in llu: imposition of un export lux. The Dunedin Slur, for instance, says:—“.This is a measure justified by present abnormal conditions, simple in its operations, instantaneous in its effect, and equitable in its incidence. It m luive been a pplied'with ureal a.d\'anlane during' the war, but that opportunity passed. Once again the country is faced with a tremendous rise in the values of our own produce —-a rise resulting from war conditions —a rise which the producer as an individual has done nothing to merit. Will Jlr Massey and the Cabinet face the position? Have they the courage and the vision to do the right thing and to take the only step which will, fn one simple operation, ‘draw off/ as Professor Bedford once wrote, for the use of the Stale at least a. portion of (hose war profits which belong to the State, and not to the individual, and at the same time automatically stabilise land value-: and cheapen to the New Zealand consumer those necessaries of life which his own industry assists the producer to transport and to market?”