TAXES AND SURTAXES
CHANCE FOR A CARTOONIST. “Many look forward daily with pleasurable anticipation to Mr Low’s cartoons in the ‘Evening Standard.’ ” asserted Mr Harold Macmillan, M.P. “I wish he would give us a cartoon of a very rich man and his conscientious contortions in trying to fulfil the same time all the solemn injunctions of the Chancellor of the .Exchequer and the Lord Privy Seal. First, he is punctually to pay on January 1, 1940, his Income Tax and Surtax up to 17s in the £; secondly he is to save enormously in order to contribute to the great new war loan; thirdly, he is to spend in the shops in order to keep trade going; and lost of all, he must not on any account do without the services of any of his dependants or employees. If any man can do all this he is indeed a very able man. He is not only a plutocrat; he is an acrobat. He is a kind of financial Blondin or Cinquevalli. These things do not make sense. there is no coherent policy. The policies cancel each 'other out.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4234, 22 January 1940, Page 7
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187TAXES AND SURTAXES Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4234, 22 January 1940, Page 7
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