THE PROPERTY TAX.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2106, 2 October 1890, Page 2

THE PROPERTY TAX.

TO THE KDITOB. Sib, — "Wall, John, this is a Tory law. The property tax is, 1 think, a disgrace to the people in New Zealand. Why and how can it be so bad? Well, I will tell yen, and do you think about it yourself ? Well, I will think it over when I hare heard what you hare to say about it. Well, John, you are a farmer; you work your land well, so as to make it produce all you can; you hare laid your strength and all your money in this farm; you hare made a great improvement in it, and down comes the property tax on you for doing this. If you had made no improvements and loafed your time away, and kept your farm in a bad state, as it was when you took it, this Tory tax would not hare come upon you so heavy as it does now, for the more you improve the more tax you hare to pay, so that is my reason, John, for it, and tthese laws the Tories make will ruin the people in the country, Their laws encourage the loafer; there is no encouragement for a man that is industrious. 1 can see through it now. These men that have got their large runs of thousands of acres; this tax just suits them, for they do not im- > urore it. It is the hard-working fame* iu ***. * “f plain enough, and I a others would look and see, and help themselves m this and many more Tory laws. We must, too, have a strong Liberal Government to put that right, Well, I thought there must be something wrong in these Tory gentlemen. How pleasing they are at an election time, nice gentlemen for a few weeks, so loving they are, bat their conscience tells them they are wrong. I go by their actions: these Tories go and visit the people and take a dry nurse with them to help to poison the people’s minds. They are afraid, so they go visiting the people round. Why do not the Liberal party go round? They do not moy®; they do

not visit the people. Well, Sir, a lie will ge round the world by the time truth hat put his boots on. Just look at this land of Paradise ! What is it f Through bad laws plunged into debt more than any country is. We must have a land tax on a sliding scale so as to encourage the hard-working man on his farm, an absentee tax, and a town tax. —I am, &c., C. C.