LIKE ANCIENT ROME
MEMBER'S PARALLEL BURDEN OF TAXATION s (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. A parallel was drawn between ancient Rome and New Zealand in the House of Representatives by Mr. C. A. Wilkinson (Nat., Egmont) when he was pleading for a reduction in taxation. This had been a burning question in Rome, he said, and Rome had not been destroyed by vandals; it had been destroyed by high taxation, short hours of work, and pleasure seeking. Mr. Wilkinson said the Government was responsible to a large extent for the high price of goods to-day on account of increased taxation and other impositions. By increasing wages and shortening hours, the Government had hampered business. Instead of loading the people to breaking point, the Government should reduce the burden in order to make business flow more freely. "I feel certain that the business people are not doing good business to-day," he continued. Indications today were visible to almost everyone that trading conditions were going back., Men were being thrown out of business in Auckland and in Dunedin there was a slowing down.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 5
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