TAX ON BREAD.
Sir, —Now that it has been found necessary to import from Australia something like a million bushels of wheat to feed us for the balance of the season, we naturally ask, "Why the tax ?" It cannot be a protective tax, because the importation is only to make up a shortage for the season. It is a revenue tax, and such a tax on our daily bread can only be termed a workers' income tax heavily graduated the wrong way, hitting the struggling fathers and mothers of large families harder than the childless. The tax on wheat is also ruining our pig and poultry industries. England import 3 eggs to the value of £10,000,000 every year. We got £6OO of this last year. We ought to get at least £1,000,000, but how can we expect to export eggs with fowl wheat at 6s 6d a bushel. If the road to prosperity was that of taxing industry and the people's earnings, then we in New Zealand would be about the most prosperous people on the earth.
E. Stevenson.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21223, 1 July 1932, Page 14
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179TAX ON BREAD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21223, 1 July 1932, Page 14
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