“A VERY SOBERING FIGURE”
“It is a very grave and serious fact that we are now passing a Finance Bill which is seeking to raise by a process of taxation of the people of this country the enormous figure of £834,000,000,” said Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer in a recent speech. “I think that in the whole of the official career of Mr Gladstone, there was never passed a Budget of as much as £100.000,000. 1 can rei member when I was a Member of the !House of Commons just before the [Great War, the astonishment with I which the Budget in the spring of 1914 was received, when it mounted up to the figure of £200.000.000. Even [after we allow for the change in jlhe value of money and other special [circumstances, unquestionably £834.InoO.OOO is a very sobering figure indeed."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 10
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