CUSTOMS AND DIRECT TAXATION.

Evening Star, Issue 7252, 1 July 1887, Page 2

CUSTOMS AND DIRECT TAXATION.

•* TO SB BDROS. ' : Sm.-Jndgipgironitte tenor of "Asark Horse's" ■letter, one wopdd snpDOja ~thij§Mly the so-called working man duties. As other times of society oonriSeWttftle goods, J ML

to Me bow the working man cu be orediM with paying the whole of the Customs revenue, I know .- heads of families whose payments *y way of indirect '' taxation must largely exceed those of any wwlling ■ man. It has been Mid that satisfies iriay be madeto prove anything. Your correspondent sires a caw in ' point by statins: that " after the public and private debts of the Colony hare been paid the asset* an . U28.808685." He might Just as well bare doubled stbe amount, for it would be equally near the truth, , The property tax valuation of many properties is extravagantly high, for, it put into the market, they would not, in many instances, sell for GO per cent of whaUhey are valued at. Tot my part, I consider is to be an Iniquitous impost, and think it tends to accentuate the present depresiion by crippling exist* in? Indus! ries and ohecfinß farther enterprise. fSDipitftllsts will notreorae here solely lor the pleasure of bdngjeeeed.—l am, eta, M. #