THE PROPOSED TAX UPON BREAD.
To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mah,. Sm, — I am glad to find that you have taken a step in the right direction, in opposing the new Corn tax. That the native war must be prosecuted to a conclusion no one will deny, and that it cannot be done without money is equally plain, therefore if money cannot be borrowed, it must be raised by taxation, but _surely this can and ought to be done without touching the poor man's loaf, for instance, there are the luxuries of life, such as wines and spirits, the taxes on these had better be doubled than the price of the children's bread be increased, besides by doing this you deprive the drunkard of his glass, or make him pay more for it, and by this means often do good instead of evil. For my own part, lam an advocate for a proper : system of taxation, in the shape of an income or property tax, to be collected according to ot»r requirements. Many of us can recollect the time when all the necessaries of life were taxed at ; home, but they manage things better there now. Hoping you will pardon the vHbp|ty : I have taken in troubling you, f{-?:-: :^iVr ' I am, &c, St>:W4" The Poor Man's Friend.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 173, 6 August 1869, Page 2
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