SOCIAL SECURITY
TO THF EDtTOB
Sir. —Does the Minister for Social Security really think the people of New Zealand can still be gulled by the string of inaccuracies that he enunciated this morning? To say that for another fourpence in the pound we are going to obtain all these extra and wonderful benefits is a plain, unadulterated distortion of facts. No one knows better than he that the direct taxation is not half of the story. The indirect tax will be at least another shilling, if not more. What annoys me is that he takes us all for goats. There are plenty of intelligent working men and women who are beginning to be scared of these
plausible gentlemen who add two and two and make them five. Let us get down to tin tacks, call a spade a spade and not a red shovel, and be honest with ourselves. Then we may do something to get New Zealand out of the financial mess she is in now. Until we get out ot this muddle no social security is possible.—l am, etc., Christchurch, December 19. A. P.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 19
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