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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1922, Page 11

(0cc2,500,000| V-.. ■" “Chuck it Away?” QEE that bag of money? That is the Annual Revenue ‘“'which the Government of your Country gets from the Licensed Trade. Two-and-a-Half Millions of it: The Prohibitionists want to “chuck it away.” Mr. Massey says that we are six-and-a-half millions “down” in our Revenue already— with a further two million drop expected. Public Service salaries have been cut and cut again to meet it. So have the staffs. Yet the Prohibitionist wants to sling another £2,500,000 per annum into the ditch—and another 6,000 employees and their 18,000 dependents with it. “Where shall we get it?" if Prohibition is carried, how is that Two-and-a-Half Millions to be made up? Put the taxation on Tea—and Tea will cost you 8/6' per lb. Put it on sugar—and Sugar will cost about 1 Od. per lb. A Voluntary Tax This money comes to the Government as a Voluntary Tax—that is, no man need pay it unless he likes. It comes from a “luxury,” but if you abolish that luxury the tax will have to go on to_ necessities. That means higher cost of living. Can you .afford it? It’s your Country. It’s your Revenue. It’s your Vote. Are you going to chuck away this money, deprive thousands of people of their livelihood, and raise the cost of living—all for the sake of an Experiment which has been tried in America and proved a Failure ? I a * I are y° a S°’ n & to do the Sane, I J Reasonable, Safe thing— Vote Continuance! A 16 /md ky the National Council of the Leenntd Trade of New Zealand.

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