TAX ! TAX !!
IN EVERY STAGE OF LIFE MR GOOSMAN’S CONTENTION When Mr W. S. Goosman, Member for Waikato, was speaking in the House of Representatives recently regarding the taxation in New Zealand he referred to a quotation of the Hon. F. Langstone, given in 1933, which was a?, follows:“Our taxation hits the working man, who lives in a taxed house, sleeps in a taxed bed, baths in a taxed bath, uses taxed soap, wipes on a taxed towel, walks in taxed boots, sits down to a taxed breakfast, cooks on a taxed stove, rests on a taxed chair, eats on a taxed table, uses taxed tools to make goods to be taxed. His wife is taxed, his children are taxed; his education is taxed, his pastimes are taxed: taxes make him ill; he uses taxed medicines; he dies of tax fever, and is put in a taxed coffin; he is buried in a taxed grave, dug with a taxed shovel, to go, we hope, to his long home where the tax-gatherers cease from troubling and the taxpayers are at rest.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6144, 3 October 1945, Page 5
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