TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —Taking no active part in politics, and being often puzzled when I try to got a little light on questions, X ask for information on the following points:—Why should A, who has no stake in the country, and who, if things should go wrong, could leave us in the scrape at a moment’s notice, have an equal voice in electing our rulers with B, who has a large stake, and who cannot leave, but must stay to share all this ill-fortune ? Why, if our taxation be redistributed, and, C be heavily taxed, should not C have ; a larger power of saying how this revenue, coming from taxes, shall be used, or more votes than D, who is but lightly taxed ? If all things were equal for all men, then I should not object that all should have an equal right to vote alike ; but I cannot see the justice of any such arrangement at present.— l am, &c., , Inquirer. Wellington, February 20.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5277, 22 February 1878, Page 2
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174TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5277, 22 February 1878, Page 2
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