SOCIAL SECURITY LEVY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 78, 3 April 1939, Page 8

SOCIAL SECURITY LEVY.

A question T would like answered as a worker is what is to become of this huge fund tire Ooverninent intends to extract from the_ people's savings and earnings br the social security levy. According to statistic.?, -the_ average life in Xew Zealand ie under sixty. wliicli means the average person of middle age to-day will not live to receive any benefit whatever, although having to eontribute with no guarantee a?ain«t an increased levy. Worse still is the ca*e of the youths -who start paying in at Mxfeen. and also in accordance with r-tatistics will not live to an average of mn h over fifty. Quite a number of us would l>c interested <o know who is to receive it. Xot many will lire to receive It, and those who do will not lift it for long. Personally, I resent the willy-nilly taking of the earnings and savings of the true citizen* and pioneers, who. by their own industry and indejiendence, have put by a little. Should anyone become, a menace bv receiving too large an income, why not strike a reasonable limit, not so low as t.> destroy ambition, use the surplus to assist the aged and unfortunate, and wliat is

left over may be used to assist that growin? army of nble-lvidied who don't intend to work but to live upon the procucts of the other fellow's labour. FED UP.