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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 3

■ IT MUMS iiOiEASED TAXATION. ' TAXPAYERS :• What would Prohibition with Osmpensation Cost You? i SIR JOSEPH WARD said £4,200,000, perhaps £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 the first year. LOSS OF REVENUE, INTEREST, AND SINKING FUND £1,500,000 each following year. '/ £6,000,000 would mean approximately £6 per head for every man, woman, and - child in New Zealand; or for a man with a wife and four children £36. HOW IS THE EXTRA TAXATION TO BE.MADE UP? Either by increased Customs Duties, or j Increased Land and Income Tax. INCREASED CUSTOMS DUTIES OR INCREASED TAXES MUST MEAN , Increased cost of living. WHO WILL HAVE TO PAY THE EXTRA TAXATION? ", ■ The Farmer ? Yes. • > The Importer?- Yes. . The Manufacturer? 'Yes. ■■'■■'■■ The Merchant?- Yes. . The Retailer? Yes. YES! They will all .have to pay, but they can all pass it on to you. ■ ■ :.-■■ ■■ ' - .-.■ /. WHO CAN YOU PASS IT QU TO? NO ONE. ¥au-lilli lima® to Foot The Bill! DO NOT BE MISLED BY PROHIBITION THEORISTS. LOCAL BODIES' RATES. MUST INCREASE IF PROHIBITION IS CARRIED. £1500 per annum in License Fees will be lost in NELSON and MOTUEKA Electorates. A LOW .ESTIMATE OF £100,000 DEPRECIATION IN PROPERTY " • . VALUES. This will mean a, rise in rates of 4d to 5d in the pound to make up the above losses. NATIONAL I>EBT INCREASING. -.-.-■■■ ' -' - *- FIVE TIMES MORE TAXATION THAN IN 1914. F ' ■ ■ ■ ' , New Zealand's Debt is'now nearly £200,000,000. At- 5 per cent, this means taxation to the amount of £10,000,000 a year. j Our Soldiers' Pensions, nobly earned, will be at leak £2,500,000 per \ annum. In 1914 the interest charge for the National Debt was less than £3,000,000. Thus £9,000,000 is being added to the burdens of taxpayers and the cost of living has increased out of all proportion to, any increases in wao-es or salaries. • / , Now, Prohibitionists and Men want, you to give your vote to add £6,000,000 more this year to the Debt, to make you pay £1 500 000 in further taxation for all time, thereby raising the annual charges upon the people for debt alone to £13,500,000. i o AA^Bf sides increasing Taxation Prohibition will throw out of work 12,000 (twelve .thousand) Bread-winners with 45,000 Women and . Children dependents. UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS RIOT. INCREASED TAXATION MEANS INCREASED COST OF LIVING. j