BURSTING-UP POLICY.
There is one thought about the "bursting-up" policy we hear so ranch about now-a-days, that does not occur to the average politician. Tlie land monopolist is a curse to the country. Ho is occupying estate which should be carrying families instead of sheep. He must bo taxed for it all —'burst up entirely. But what of the commercial monopolist—the man who squeezes out the small man and employs tens of mien where hundreds should be employed? Is he to be allowed to escape? If the graduated tax is good for the land monopolist, should it not also be good for the commercial monopolist? We are tired of thi.-> continual cry about land .monopoly. It is lop-sided and insincere. They are squint-eyed politicians who soo a -monopoly in land and in not-h----;.ig ebe.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 4
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134BURSTING-UP POLICY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 4
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