FATHER CHRISTMAS HAS “GONE BROKE”
WELLINGTON, August 24 (P.A.) —Every Budget that .Mr Nash had presented was an annual handout until the position has been reached in the latest Budget where Father Christmas has “gone broke,” said Mr W. Sullivan (Opposition, Bay of Plenty) in the Budget debate in the House of Representatives this evening. , Mr Sullivan said the Opposition would reduce taxation by increasing production. The Opposition would give more incentive to increased production and it would not act as the Minister of Finance had: “The more old Strawberry gives the more he strips her.” The people could not have Socialism and lower taxes, too. Taxation had been decreased elsewhere in the Commonwealth and in Australia taxation was about £46 a head, but in New Zealand it was £7l. Taxpayers worked three days out of every eight for the Government. The people were sick and tired of working for Socialism and would send the Prime Minister and his colleagues down the road at the next election. Since the Labour Government had been in powei' it had added £330,000,000 to the public debt.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1949, Page 7
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