TAXING THE THRIFTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 275, 20 November 1935, Page 6

TAXING THE THRIFTY.

Your . correspondent "James Citizen"- '■&& (|iiitc right us to tlic absence of any by most candidates for Parliament to' thafcf I blot on our legislature, namely, the taxatibifi;l of the aped thrifty, both men and women, fort the benelit. mostly, of young men. " Xew. Z<&-[-land lias nothing to be proud of in the extract tiun of much-needed small sums of nioiiwA from old men and women with small: especially the latter, to help to swell a'efir- , plus of £1,305,000 odd in the Unemployment Fund; How a body of men like the House of ■ Representatives, members of the British Empire, could have passed such legislation is hard to understand. It goes without sayhi<f that they do not feel the burden they have i complacently placed on others. A small v minority of the House not in sympathy with: , this aspect of the unemployment taxation can i do nothing. Thrifty people save the Government thousands yearly and their punishment. , is this taxation. It lias been said that there is no place in the world where thrift is eo ■< highly punished as in England. First place must now be given to Xew Zealand. If:the. small sums thus individually extracted from those receiving under £250 a year are actually needed by the Government (which I do not believe), then Xew Zealand is far from laving "turned the corner." In the "restoration 'of '■"' cute," increase of wages, etc., those 'ofthe'' community who most need relief have bceii' ■ completely passed by. F. E. GOSS.;/ :