MOTOR TAXES.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5668, 23 July 1914, Page 2

MOTOR TAXES.

To the Editor. Sir, —Our Government proposes to make a special tax on motor cars and cycles, which I don’t think will he very popular or just. In the first place, these machines are very useful to country farmers and others, and a number of light ones are used, and will soon be considered by them as a necessary part of the farm machinery. In addition to the road rates, the special tax would be a double dose, and the damage to roads is leas than a buggy and two horses. True, they are a luxury. So is a buggy. Hut the special tax is not more justifiable than to tax the milk waggons which carry the milk to the factories. Business firms and professional men can pass the tax on to the public; but the cost of collecting the special tax will be the means of employing a few more non-producers to the already -overburdened public service of New Zealand. Now, what 1 wish to know is, is this a sample of the Reform Government’s measures to raise money to curry on the public works of the country? As well revive something of bygone days ami put a tax on windows.— I am, etc., GEORGE WATT. Cambridge. July 22nd, 1914.