SUBSIDIES.
Lord Bacon said revenge was a wild kind of justice. The more a man harboured revenge the more his mind ran to weeds and prevented other growths of the mind. This is only too true. The other day I was thinking that subsidies were'like a mustard plaster on a malignant growth, and as fast as I reached for the poker alongside the fireplace I let it fall from my hand to the concrete hearth "as I realised that subsidies were a vicious circle, whether you applied for them or not, where the wage and sale taxes were concerned. If you applied for the subsidy when you were employing labour on, say, a £20 carpentry job you got £8 in the £100. and if on a £15 job of painting £3 in £15; both of which more than paid the wage tax many times over in comparison to the man forced, according to the law, to pay the wage tax who did not apply for the subsidy. Therefore I say go and do likewise and apply for the subsidy to prevent yourself from being robbed by the "pow r ers that be" and the other fellow in the same station of life as yourself. Or, in other wordr, the aiders and abetters of your own class, who help the "powers that be" to rob you in either case, where the subsidy is applied for or not. J. E. CHAMBERLAEV
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 19
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239SUBSIDIES. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 19
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