MR WITHY'S PROPOSAL.
' [2*o The Editor.] Sir, —I think you are in. error about Mr Arthur Withy'® proposals. He has not urged the abolition of the income tax, or death duties, or stamp duties. What he suggests is that we should have more direct and less indirect taxation. He contends that the farmer would benefit in common with the great bulk of the community if Customs duties, especially those 'that affect the necessaries of life were removed, and a general land tax substituted. This is not a "theory" but a simple arithmetical problem that Mr Withy worked out for the edification of 'his listeners and apparently to their satisfaction. You seem to attach much importance to "a universal and graduated income tax." Such a thing might have the merit of being an aill-round infliction ; but how would it affect the individual who is holding land in largo areas, unused and imprisoned, and who,- through the medium of Public Works and Immigration, is sweating the rest of the community? i maintain that the duties on food are impolitic, unjust! Ha bit l , and abhorrent, and f trust no time will be lost in sweeping them away. Mr Withy's arguments in favour -of their abolition are simply unanswerable.— I am, etc., A. W. HOGG.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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212MR WITHY'S PROPOSAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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