DEATH BY TAXATION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 448, 2 June 1937, Page 6

DEATH BY TAXATION

SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT Where Are People Being Led ? “There are a hundred reasons these Socialistic dlays why the taxpayer should growl. One of these relasons is the enormous: coat of administering these revolutionary measures that now adorn our Statute Books,” sayis a statement issued, by the National Party Executive. New Zealand is really only a smlall unit in the British Empire, with but one and a half million white persons, men, women and children. Yelt ft is one of the heaviest taxed of all the Dominions, and is in for still heavier taxation. We merely mention the fact that this last yfear has produced a great national income, due to the price of wool; indeed, the income has exceeded all previous records. It is no part of the make-up of Socialists who, as the old rhyme says, "will fork out his penny and pocket your shilling,” to save or pay off existing obligations. On the contrhry they, to use an expression common with the more cultured gentlemen of that political ilk, "go the whale hog.” They spend every penny of that vast income, much of it on hopelessly unpayable and unjustifiable projects. Even that does not appease their mania for squandering. They, knowing full well that the people were necessarily severely taxed’ during the depression when the national income fell below the bare necessity, apparently think .the people are used to being taxed and so increase the burden by more taxation. It is perhaps, part of the!.' Socialis-tic-Communistic purpose to make it worth while to hold property real or personal. By this melans the State ownership of the people's possessions will be secured. All these measures and manoeuvres require men and money, Last year the army of civil servants wits' increased by 3,700, and that number does not include the 5,000 additional workers employed on public works, useful or useless. The people must soon realise that this enormous 'addition to the ranks of the civil service Is but a small beginning. There Is much more to be, done before the whole framework for a Communistic State is complete. When that state is created there will be no more taxation. No one will have anything to be taxed! If only the people will .try to realise where they are being led