GOVERNMENT AND TAXATION
RESERVES IN GOOD TIMES.
(To the Editor.) It is too late to prevent the extra taxation now imposed. Revenue must be secured to equal expenses, but this may be a suggestion for the future after this "rainy day" hapassed and before we are hit by the depression. Would it not be a better way f or our Governments, whoever they may be {jjf reverse gear ? Let them impose extra'taxation (mainly 011 non-essentials) during good timjg when there id full employment, normal wages' and people are in the best condition to pay Surpluses or sinking funds could thus be builtup 60 that when "slump*" and unemployment came, taxes might remain normal," and even be reduced. Is it a wise or proper thin* to ask a family to pay more in taxes just when the Government knows it is poorer off and le.-o able to pay? The imposition of taxes to meet bad times must at some time be made but give the people relief when they need it 3 ' and put 011 them the tax burden whenthev' are strong. REVERSE GEAR "
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 6
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