THE WAR TAX.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7740, 24 June 1916, Page 3

THE WAR TAX.

, OEOI'GE HUNTER'S VIEWS. .VDOWNEHS 'UNDULY HARD HIT." (Sinm'iul to “Mail"). WIXI.INUTON, Tliiu day. mi the subject of the [ Mr (•■ Hunter, M.l’. for , nil Vaid be was quite ready to ,l|,l | | 1( . n ,tilil ional taxation. At rr| ’„„. time, he realised that it ' heavily »n the farmer, ,sl nMoird t" the inereases in the ‘'l'lax «,„l , ' l * '"qsmed Inst " What landowners felt was that ,r „. r , henih' unduly hard hit, hnv*!l n l to the fact that many 1 *“f in „,„ie, such ns uniuse*lr' »ere Is'ii'jr left alone. Another that 111 Enttland the war maid he assessed on any one years |ireeedin({ the war the taxpayer seleeted. He “7 that was a belter plan than , v ,. rl|! c 111 llure years proposed 'the bill, farther, there was, lie , a wmkl dual ol <lib«!»|)ointmeiit ,‘thr failure ..I the (loveniinent *£. beer duty. The Vail tiainla r of lor a porV ,pe yar. and only contributed * N I |„ j|„. revenue, and yet the Vr |h,. land" ivas asked to eonJV jfs.',l.nun Ip way of iidditioniil ' DETECT in the budget. w r Nev.inaii, M l', for ltanpi- " MU ,| "There is a point in the let shall seems to me a defect—„„.|v that I'ersons who have (liven Iv'tni some eases all their war ,alt,| slniuhl have received ii.n ns eoaipiired with those who , n li,,| not limy. This should have „ nrmnleil atrainsl. No one can ~av the farmers will not be pa.v.their share towards the war when ,V have paid land-tax. graduated nil-tax, supi r lav. ineiime-tax, and f per l ent meiiine-lax; and il t ,t he iiihailled Ihal the bulk of the ,t ~| war is lalliny m this country i niinpiir!ivrlv small number of dy. those paying land j inennie la\ I'ersonally, l think B rrl.t that wealth should pay the rater |mrii"ti "I «<>«' ' "St of the war, it | think it is well that the country raihl lams Ihal, under the propnsnla the Sat ional (loverumeiit of last man and this session, they will do