POLL TAX DEFENDED.
•'May I express:an opinion in favour of-tie proposed poll tax ?' Most critics realise that it is fundamentally a form of unemployment uisurance. • The. thirty shillings per annum is the "premium" we pay and the _ 'risk"-under-taken by the State is the possibility of our unemployment. Now in all insurance tho amount of the premium is in direct proportion to the risk. The greater the risk-tie. greater the premium. Apply this fact to tlie unemployment problem. For which man is tie "risk" of unemployment greater? Obviously the lowest-paid man. The £5 a -week man is more likely to be unemployed tlian the earning - £10. Hence the. £5 man should pay the higher premium. Here, I submit, the po tax is absolutely fair. Each man coiitribucin„ 30/ per 'annum, the £5 man is relatively _ proportion to his income paying more than £10 man. The tax thus adapts; iteelf to »u "risks" and to all salaries. gECURITY.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 173, 24 July 1930, Page 6
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