COST OF LIVING
Sir, —“17 Years a Worker” suggests getting the cost of living down and improving the standard of living by electing the Labour Party and letting it straighten it out. Labour had 14 years in office and put the cost of living up 56 per cent. It increased our national debt by nearly £400.000,000; it increased the sales tax from 5 per crent. to 20 per cent.; it had apple and pear boards, egg floors, restrictions, etc. There is, however, one way for the worker to get a greater share of the good things of life and that is to elect a social credit government—one pledged to abolish the wages tax, the sales tax, the amusement tax, and really lower the cost of living, thereby giving the worker and everyone else access to washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, etc. If we voters have any sense left, we will elect such a government in November. —Yours, etc., 40 YEARS A WORKER. July 20, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 3
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