F.U. Wants Plebiscite On Social Security Scheme
(Per Press Association. Copyright. 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. A remit that a referndum on the national health and superannuation scheme should be taken at the General Election was adopted at the annual conference of the Farmers’ Union. Mr P. J. O’Regan, junior tWest Coast), who moved the i-emit. said the amended social security scheme involved not only a tax of one shilling in the £ on income, but also a contribution of about £9,000.000 from the Consolidated Fund. “Before the country submits to further raids on its earnings, it should have an opportunity of saying whether it wants the scheme or not,” he said. It would probably cost. 3/- in the £ on the earnings of the producers. Mr W. A. Sheat (Taranaki) said the Government should be asked, before the election, how the Consolidated Fund was going to be built up by extra taxation to stand the drain on it. If the social security legislation were put through this session, he pointed out, the full taxation necessary to build up the Consolidated .Fund need not be disclosed until next year's Budget was brought down.
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1938, Page 7
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