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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15041, 8 April 1919, Page 3

IT MEANS INCREASED TAXATION. TAXPAYERS: What would Prohibition with Compensation Gost You? SIR JOSEPH WARD said £4,500,000, 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 Increased Land and Income Tax. y 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 GAN YOU PASS IT ON TO? NO ONE. YOU Will Have to Foot The Bill! ■•■_." ■ ■ .—' a ■ ■ ■ 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 DEBT INCREASING. FIVE TIMES MORE TAXATION THAN IN 1914. 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. Our Soldiers' Pensions, nobly earned, will be at least £2,500j000 per annum. " S - ■-■■■■■■ 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 wages or salaries. • . I Now, Prohibitionists and Efficiency 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 ammal charges upon the people for debt alone to £13,500,000. Besides increasing Taxation Prohibition will throw out of work i 12,000 (twelve thousand) Bread-winners with 45,000 Women and Children dependents. ._ "' ■ ' ■ ■■ \ UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS RIOT. INCREASED TAXATION MEANS INCREASED COST OF LIVING. DO NOT BE MISLED BY PROHIBITION THEORISTS., :