WORLD’S HIGHEST TAXATION
COST OF BRITISH SOCIAL SERVICE. EX-CHANCELLOR GIVES WARNING. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. ReC. 5.5 p.m. London, April 24. The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Robert Horne, in a speech io the members of the Chamber of Commerce at London, although he was an optimist by natitre he could see nothing but a steady drift to disaster if Britain continued in her present course. “We have the highest taxation in the world,” he said. “If we go on as at present we will be unable to support tne social services, on which we are spending £3 18s 6d per head of population, compared with £1 17<s 6d in Germany, 13s in France and 5s 6d in
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 April 1931, Page 7
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