SPENDING MILLIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 8

SPENDING MILLIONS

"Just recently (writes "Down and Out") I read a statement wherein the correspondent referred to the Government as a 'Juggins Government' and compared it to the Jubilee Juggins who was left £250,000 ,and got through it in three years. The name is very appropriate, except that the 'Juggins Government' got through about £30,000,000 in addition to a huge income in the shape of heavy income taxes, sales tax, Customs tax, and many other taxes. . . . Money should be considered as part and parcel of the individual's stock in trade or the tools of his trade or profession, and no fault should be found if he removed himself and his stock-in-trade and tools to a better employment and more safe market. But this Government calls him a renegade. Yet the Government has no hesitation in causing workmen and their tools to leave Australia and England by offering better inducements. Does the same criticism apply to this? The Government knew just what it was going to do to imports when it ascended the Treasury benches; why then did it not tell this country:—'On January 1, 1939, imports will be very severely restricted. A full list of the goods so dealt with may be obtained at any Post Office'?: This ample notice would have avoided a lo + of hardships and by this time things would have settled down. Instead of this notice being given the great change was practically made overnight."