TAXATION

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21978, 30 December 1936, Page 6

TAXATION

to tju Ksrroa or thb pmss. Sir—ln the Ulster Hall at Belfast (Ireland) recently, Major C. H. Douglas, the social credit leader, delivered an address on "Dictatorship by Taxation." Describing taxation as being a tyrannical device, he said, prophetically (and his prophecies in the past have been singularly accurate), "Within the next few years you will either become subjects of a servile state exceeding in powers anything known to history, quite possibly well fed and even secure, just as many slaves were "well fed and secure in the days of chattel slavery and bitterly resented their freedom, or you will, hut only by means of the greatest struggle in history, have achieved all these things, together with freedom." He showed further, very clearly, that taxation is a stranglehold making us the slaves of our creditors in perpetuity. "It is impossible," he said, "to obtain the money to pay off the debt, owing to the fact that our creditors are at the same time in sole control of the power of creating the money which is required to pay off the debt." I had just read this when I noticed in "The Press" that Mr W. M. C. Denham, Labour M.P. for Invercargill, In an address to the Southland Storemen's Union, indicated that the "taxation pincers might soon be put in a bit deeper!" The "taxation pincers," as most people realise to their cost, are already deeply embedded and unless these jumped-up dictators in the Labour party are made to realise that they are our servants and not our masters, the taxation pincers will soon have that stranglehold on us as prophesied by Major Douglas. We have not time to wait for another election to impress upon them that they are our servants. The time is now to tell Government members emphatically that we freedom-loving people of New Zealand have no desire to become subjects of a servile state. We must insist that security with freedom is our objective, and that we can never have freedom so long as we are shackled with taxation pincers.—Yours, etc., CONSUMER CREDIT. December 28, 1936.