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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15043, 10 April 1919, Page 3

IT MEANS INCREASED TAXATION. \ , ' ■ '. : ~ \; l-_. / TAXPAYERS: What would Prohibition with Compensation Dost 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 Now 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 I Increased Land and Income Tax. f INCRF.ASED CUSTOMS DUTIES OR INCREASED TAXES MUST MEAN Increased cost of living. \ WHO WILL HAVE TO PAY THE EXTRA TAXATION? The Farmer ? Yes. i 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 x to you. WHO CAN YOU PASS IT ON TO? NO ONE. YOU Will Have to Foot The Bill! ' . • . ■ ■ ' ' - !'"■ ..'*1-- " '■■'.■ ;~. •■"■'■■ '" ■•: ' : ■■ ' ... !'■ ■■ ~ \ LOCAL BODIES' BATES 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 rNCREASING. 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 £2,500.000 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- wages or salaries. 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 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 arid Children dependents. ■ ." --•■-, '.'-':: ; .'• x ■ '■'■'.■ %■...:.'.• •■ ■■ ■ v-.'--UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS RIOT. INCREASED TAXATiON MEANS IMCREASED COST OF LIVING. DO NOT BE MISLED BY PROHIBITION THEORISTS. v i