CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 158, 5 July 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

WHITHER WAR TAXATION?

(To the Editor.)

Having read your leading article I j-. appalled to realise that a family o f five souls are expected to live on fi 16/ per week; in fact, I know that to "live on" the present purchasing of that sum is a physical 1 mposeibilitt It is a larger however, which T question. How can money taken fn»n the community of Xew " Zealand pa account* due in London or eUewhere outside thi* Dominion? If the \vaet«»e of war is to cost 31J millions, suref v there is only one method by which W can meet it —by extra production aid to that end all true citizens will wjjj. ingly put their shoulder to the wh«j but this curtailment of purcha«hw power—why the necessity? Who fits? Does it help to "win the w w j Frankly, I cannot «>ee. the necessity, fc n j if anyone can prove that the sacrijjees asked for are imperative to the life of this country or the Empire, I for one will give, and give willingly, in proof o f which I am a serving member of tt e National Reserve, Claes 11., and «d about to take part in a recruiting r»Uy on behalf of that force, and finally a* a true Britisher hating all subt*rfue j am PUZZLED.