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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1921, Page 12

The Mercantile Gazette says: —“It is only too true that no country can prosper which is heavily taxed, for although the burden can be carried for a time, unfair and grinding taxation eats like cancer into the ifcxly politic, and the end is just the satne as when the dread disease intrudes itself into the body physical. Mr. Massey, as Finance Minister, is no more able to maintain an expenditure “jvhich is in excess of the revenues he stamld fairly extract from the country, wifhput facing disaster, than can an ordinary individual who spends a thousand pounds per year more than his legitimate income. Bankruptcy stands in the path of both. Everyone wants to assist the Minister in his attmept to rehabilitate the oouutry « finance.”