OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

TAXES & STATE CONTROL (To the Editor) Sir,—We read that the lodges are greatly concerned over the doctors and the Medical Bill. Then why have the lodges not done something long since? The lodges, with their thousands of all Over the Dominion, did not require the Social Security stunt, for they already received a free doctor, £1 per week sick pay, besides sundry Other family benefits, and some lodges pay out £5O at death, all for, say, something less than £5 per annum. Now listen girls and listen boys: For a whole lifetime you arc going to pay 2s out of every beautiful pound that you earn. If you earn £ 2 each week you pay 4s out of tfiat. If you are a married man earning £5 per week, you pay 10s out of that, for a whole lifetime. When you reach the age of 60 you receive the old age pension which you would have got- in any case, but if you die at the age of 59, who gets all that money that you have been paying out every week? Why, that bright little boy, the Government. What the doctors really want- is absolute freedom and that is what we all want. Our sympathies all lie with the Russian people, and with Russia, as a nation fighting for its liberty, and wd are prepared to help them in every way. possible towards that freedom, but when it comes to adopting their schemes for State control in all things; will it be? The Socialists are forging steadily ahead, getting the thin edge of the wedge in everywhere for ultimate State control; Now is the time to alter all that. On with the elections and vote for freedom.—Yours, etc., DEMOCRAT. Masterton, October 3. The taxation mentioned by our correspondent includes the Social Security tax of Is in the pound and the National Security tax, of equal amount, imposed solely for war purposes.—Ed.