COUNTRY’S BURDEN.
To the Editor. Sir, —In your issue of Tuesday, June 18, I notice where the Auckland Chamber of Commerce shows very fully the increase in taxation which looks as if the Government were making full use of the Blank Cheque presented to them last election; but the Chamber does not tell the whole story. I notice by the abstract of statistics and the Official Year Book that the National Debt for 1931 wa5’£276,033,358 or £lB2 13/10 a head of population and in 1934 it was £302,791,996 or £195 9/9 a head. This shows an increase of £26,758,638. Then there is: Unemployment tax £4,413,224 Sale tax £2,170,235 Total in one year of £6.583,456 Increase in National Debt £26,758,638 £33,342,094 The late Sir Joseph Ward’s seventy millions knocked out in the first round. I am. etc., JIM THE MILKER. June 18, 1935.
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Southland Times, Issue 25315, 19 June 1935, Page 3
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