HIGH TAXATION HITS POOR
LORD ROSEBERY’S WARNING LONDON. Jan. 25. , "1 do not know w.lui-t taxation is coming .to; so far as 1 can make out, every Government, no matter what their politics. simply spend money, and do not think about retrenchment,” declared the Km) ~f Rosebery at the annual meeting of the Winslow Shire Horse Society. "The more taxation that is put on bits not only the people who are taxed, but the people who are not taxed, lie said. “The Government may think they are going to tax the people wjio have money, and that it does not matter, be cause' th(> people with money who are taxed have to retrench and economise, and cannot put money hack into their businesses and their harms. '•We shall find, in tlia' event, that the whole country will slowly become .a retrograde country, instead of being an improving country. If there is no retrenchment or economy at Hie top, there will he none at the bottom. It is the poor people who sillier, and not the people xvl l > have Hie money.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 13
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