THE SALES TAX
TO THE EDITOB OT TIT* PRESS. Sir,—There is nothing bewildering, n c su£?CGstcci in your sub-lGSdcr on Monday, in Mr Savage’s attitude to the sales tax. Mr Savage is a good Socialist and Socialists are not opposed tn taxation or, to put it another way. Mr Savage’is as good a Con ser vaUve as the country could wish for. The sales tax must have been a good idea for taxation or the Conservatives would not have put it on, and now Mr Savage would conserve what is good. It is simply further evidence episode No. umpteen, of the March of Time, lust as trade cycles are an inexorable law of Nature, so are political cycles. We are now round to the position where those who were once opposed to the sales tax will vote for Labour because they refuse to take it off, and those who supported the people who put it on will vote for them because they insist that Labour should remove it It is absurd to suggest that politicians should be logical or even consistent. Yours, etc.. R B r AY . July 28, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 20
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