PUBLIC OPINION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 9

PUBLIC OPINION

TAXATION INEQUALITY

ATTEMPTED UTOPIAS

As expressed by correspondents whose letters are welcome, but for whose views we have no responsibility. Correspondents are requested to write in ink. It is essential that anonymous writers enclose their proper names as a guarantee of good faith. Unless this rule is complied with, their letters will not appear.

(To the Editor) Sir, —It is understood that the salaries of Ministers of the Crown are pooled in order to aid the less financial of the members. It has also been stated that a Minister is not taxed on the basis of his salary but only on that portion which he retains. If this is correct, than a grave injustice is done to ordinary taxpayers who transfer portions of their income to other persons. If it is allowable in the cases of Ministers of the Crown then it should also be allowed to John Citizen. John, however, never protests or grumbles, and how he is imposed upon!—l am, etc., TAX PARITY Hamilton, September 11.

(To the Editor) Sir,—The letter on the subject of attempted Utopias by Mr T. Harris contains nothing new, but it does contain an apparently insoluble conundrum in the following sentence: “ Like Mr Warburton they failed to understand Nature and society in its (sic?) motion with all its dialetical richness.” A magnificent sentence; it fills the mouth like “ Abradacabrada ” or “honoroficibilitudinitatibus”; but what on earth does it mean ? Will Mr Harris out of the goodness of his heart explain to us in language“understanded by the people” what it is all about.—l am, etc., A. WARBURTON Ngaruawahia, Sept. 10.