A tax by any name...
When the Social Security system was set up he had the feeling, “confirmed later in my political life,” that people were not happy about paving taxes, Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, a former Minister of Finance, told the one-day regional seminar of the Life Underwriters’ Association yesterday. “So,” he said amid laughter, “we said: ‘Let’s not call it a tax, let’s call it a charge.’ “But people still insisted on calling it a tax.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33005, 26 August 1972, Page 1
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78A tax by any name... Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33005, 26 August 1972, Page 1
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