UNHEARD BUT NOT UNTAXED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 8

UNHEARD BUT NOT UNTAXED

The large but inarticulate class of salaried workers should be grateful to Mr. Vincent Ward for speaking a word for them. As Mr. Ward pointed out these people, neither wealthy nor organised into unions, have not the same means as those above and below them of forcing attention to their case. They were hit hardest by the income tax increase and probably they have much less than wageworkers to set against the higher taxes. They have no prospects of benefit from the contributions they make to unemployment taxation, no hope of a cheap Government house; but their living costs rise because of the benefits given to other people. Yet members of this class give in-

valuable service to the country. They provide the men of administrative capacity in finance, in trade, in industry, the men without whose exact, painstaking, and conscientious work it would be impossible to organise the affairs of the nation. They arc pre-eminently the class of stability, averse to reaction but not easily templed lo adopt wild plans for rapid progress. Deserving so well people in this class have so far received little. They had hoped for a lightening of tax burdens; but all they had was the biggest share of the increase. Let us hope that the promised correction of I he incidenceof taxation will give them something belter than another shock.