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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15042, 9 April 1919, Page 3

IT MEANS, INCREASED TAXATION. TAXPAYERS: What would Prohibition with Compensation Cost 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. 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. f . • / The Retailer? Yes. YES! They will all have to pay, but they can all pass it on to you. WHO CAN YOU^PASS IT ON TO? NO ONE. YOU Will /Have' to Foot The Bill! LOCAL BODIES' RATES MUST INCREASE IF PROHIBITION IS CARRIED. £1300 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 rate^of 4d to 5d in the pound to make up the above losses. • \ ' ■ ■ ■ NATIONAL DEBT INCREASING. FIVE TIMES MORE TAXATION THAN IN 1914. • ■ • ■■■•,■■ ■■.•'.■■,'■ . ■ - ' . . ; c '■ . ■ - - . . " —■" ■ ' * a ■ ' ■ -.'■■• '-.'•■. a New Zealand's Debt is now nearly^£2oo,ooo,ooo. '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 £2,500,000 per annum. In 1914 the interest charge for the National Debt was less than £3,000,000. Thus £9,000,000 is being added vtp the burdens of taxpayers and the cost of living has increased out of all proportion to any increases in wages or salaries. , - Now, Prohibitionists and Efficiency Men want you to give your vote to add £6,000,000 more this year ta the Debt, to make yon 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. . . Besides increasing Taxation Prohibition-will throw out of: work 12,000 (twelve thousand) Bread-winners with 45,000 Women ""and Children dependents.. -V.-. :''-:._ • UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS RIOT. INCREASED TAXATION MEANS INCREASED COST OF LIVING. DO NOT BE MISLED BY PROHIBITION THEORISTS. )