Working to Pay Taxes
To the Editor. air,- —In these days of stress, your columns aro often singlod out as a modium whereby tlio disgruntled may air their opinions on our iniquitous Government, and their equally iniquitous methods of taxation. Comparisons are odious, wd aro told, but very necessary at times. As a case Lu point. Compare the taxed state of the farm labourer and that of his fellows. I am employed on a farm, and work eighty hours per week, and 1 am paid at tho rate of 15s per week. The wages tax at 15s per week with board assessed at a similar sum, amounts to id 18s. Tho unemployment tax of £1 brings the annual total tax to £4 ISs. This represents six and a-half weeks’ work, or twclvo weeks for a man Avho tvorks a Avcck of forty-four hours.
How Avould some of our ranting civil servants like to work for three months without any pay. I am, etc., NOEL DICKSON. Longburn, 15/11/32.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7007, 17 November 1932, Page 6
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167Working to Pay Taxes Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7007, 17 November 1932, Page 6
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