Paying twice
Sir,—A man came to my back door to sell me a doormat that I immediately recognised as being from my own front door. He was unabashed and further assured me that he had legal means to compel me to buy back my own property. His name was Roger Douglas. The “doormat” is made of various State departments and airports which I have helped purchase and build up with taxes and usage fees. Now “corporations” will be handed our property with instructions to make the users pay at a rate that will provide a commercial return on the capital value of the assets — as if they belonged to the corporations . themselves! In this way, we have to buy back our own doormat, even though we have already paid for it. By this method, the Government converts a capital asset into current revenue to cover a Budget deficit that has got out of control. — Yours, etc., AUSTEN B. WARD. Nelson, January 30, 1987.
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