TOO HIGH WAR TAXES
BERNARD SHAW PROTESTS. BEQUESTS BRING, POVERTY ! LONDON, Jan. 31. Bernard Shaw in a letter to the “Times”, makes a protest against the onerous burden of taxation. Mr. Shaw said: “I have just been endowed for life with the income from a property valued at one hundred and fifty thousand sterling. The net result is that 1 have to pay forty thousand sterling, as well as the income from the estate, to Sir John Anderson. My haunting dread is that some of my admirers, by dying and leaving me a million or so, may consign me to an alms house. I am very far from being a millionaire, but since 1939, I have had to give the Exchequer twenty thousand sterling annually to pay for a war which would not have occurred if my advice had been taken in 1939.”
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Grey River Argus, 2 February 1944, Page 2
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