Taxation
Sir, —Many persons resent paying income-tax and rates. Yet, * on the whole, this expenditure brings them more amenities than the money they have left over afterwards. Taxes are necessary , for governments and local bodies. They must have money. Parlia-, mentary politicians and local politicians are elected by the people.' If the people do not think they are getting value for their taxes and rates, the remedy is in their own hands when elections come round. The salaries of dur poll- , ticians are so meagre that no efficient businessman will look at a political career with its uncertainties. As for local body rep--resentatives, they are not paid at all. Those elected may have the best intentions in the world, but if their minds are prisoners of the existing system they will be tied by invisible chains of ideas which will cause them to keep on repeating many errors of the past.—Yours, etc., RALPH S. WHEELER Timaru, February 26, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28832, 28 February 1959, Page 3
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