PAPERSPAST

EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE

Massey Pampers die Rkh—Eot the ef H Workers Are Skinned

Last year the assessable incomes of the income taxpayers totalled £48,000,000. This exceeded by £35,000,000 the assessable incomes of the income taxpayers in the year before the waiv Last year less than 400 income taxpayers (individuals and companies) had an income equal to the total assessable income of all the income taxpayers {about 1-4,000:) in the year before the .war., • Mr. Massey's heart bleeds for these ladies and gentlemen. Twelve months ago he gave those of -them who could pay; promptly a rebate of £400,000. Last session he gave them *V reduethm in their tax of a million pounds per annum. Last year the Bank of New Zealand made a profit of over £700,000. Mr.. Massey gave it a rebate of £1?;QQ0. Under Massey;-ism it is very pleasant to be rich. ' To enrich his friends Mr. Massey had to get the •somewhere. We know how—he took it front the workers. Two cuts from the Civil Servants relieved them of £1,200,000. Two "General Orders" at the expense of the outside wageearners will net £1,500,000 more. Eemember the cuts to comet See how it works out! To give £1,400,000 to his friends he. took £2,700,000 frojn the workers. This is what he calls equality of sacrifice. _ - Don't forget that at the Levin .]aan<piet Mr. Massey said Xt intended ' 'to reduce the burdens of the. prosperous classes." . . . A-Vote against Labour is -a yote for a Wage Gut.

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