WILL PROHIBITION INCREASE TAXATION? OFFICIAL LABOR SAYS “YES.” The evidence obtainable from countries which have sampled prohibition shows that in every case this drastic legislation has been responsible for an unprecedented increase in taxation. For instane*. the American Federation of Labor, representing four and a-half million workers, in a manifesto issued in February. 1922, declared that the Prohibition Act was responsible for an “increase in taxes to City, State, and National Governments, amounting to approximately one thousand million dollars per vear. ’’ The creation of a similar state of affairs in this country, which is already taxed to the very limit, would cause arunbearable burden to the working population. Vote Continuance. 77
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1922, Page 7
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111Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1922, Page 7
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