THE TAX DEFENDED

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5

THE TAX DEFENDED

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(SEUTEK'S TELEORAH.) LONDON, Ist May. ■Air. Churchill, addressing the Primrose League at the Albert Hall, said his Budget consisted of a series of carefullyadjusted balances. The. tax on silk would produce 1 exactly four millions this year and seven millions next year, which would precisely meet the cost of the relief given on earned income to the smaller taxpayers. He was confident the silk tax would not diminish employment, and would be paid by an enormous number of people in inconceivably small instillments. The women, if convinced it was fur the country's good, would not hesitate to assume the burden of the tax Another balance in the Budget was that the -VlKenna duties would fully defray the cost of Imperial preference. Inferring to the previous night's scene Hi the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill vigorously- assailed the Labour critics. Mr. bnowden had said that it was a rich man s Budget. Let him and his Socialist friends say that at New Year to the two hundred thousand widows who would then be drawing pensions;' also to the six millions who were assured of penei . Comrades, we meant to give yon these on -a nou-contributory basis, but