Over-Taxation Of Ireland

New Zealand Tablet, 9 December 1909, Page 1932

Over-Taxation Of Ireland

Mr; M. Nolany in the'" course ol"a ! letWHp't^'ao^J^H"' Bay Herald, ' deals'an'^ very' '" able '^n^^Vifff'.tEnW&j'si',. indebtedness^ to ( Ireland. Mr :"' letter waL written in answer' to an' article 1 " that 'app'e'alred iWW^&cmldl in which 1 it w;as stated tfciif.&te AiM"B'4le/&.;hadJftian#! gnevdncfes 'inl'thef; past; " bu|: iha>; >t W ffi l^ were" ■better, 'off 'thari'the /pdoplef/ pr-!^nKiaiid,r " ",Vi^)tiowr-itear , everv f social, civil, „_a nd. politigal, a3 Pl qct Jl( hftve £ ji;eftson f( to ibfto content^ and I£ theyuc are not, it is their f [ow ; n r f^ult;caftd -jioi-onei else/a^ theyojaTe-t the framers^f.theiriqwft^destinxo laws, and ., live.,^^der^a^icpnstjtuiiion Ladmi^tedlyuthe^ finest « in th,e,..world:. v ,! flj .' > (l 3iand[dthe«lrashr-' peojfle-ni to-day^-are the^^fmiOst-ihfeavilyi l r.ta^edi;M[theoßpitishi-«Emi)i'r4'>i-with a-' perpetual >OdercioAij^3ct always-^ na'nging^> bVe¥Sthein J f J f by which « they> tcan'"at 'any nidment^be^aepflvgd l^ 1 " libertiies by '-a stroWe^of the 'Loi i a jJ -liieutßnan^g i5 pcn jKJ kk l M {{;t incarcerated ttiUV/r "Mf'.'/kolatf^Hk. the readers df'^ne.JET^arjd^f fM li a{tfei ! etffe MW's' W 8 sion passed dufi'ni^h'^ reign' 'bX^h^lk^Que'e'n^fbme^feali'' ful mortality;'orthe' ! famine;>^arsm t< eH¥f"rißle;' efttmtg a^d , ; the fot^Vfe^iiw^f'tbfe'getol'M. £446^00,00,0, And.^cqnsequently i^fche burden -offl its,linfcereatjfi : also, fromj-aall pfij-whighf-Iralandi-roasg-to Ibeoirefil eilltonir^s. c i expressly. stated bytftheseveiith /clause in theeActs-thateSpelandtrj was neverito.vbe taxed)!Beybndlhep/relatitveQ;axabre''^)ac'ity' > o to that of England,? and^thaH; ithe^rfirbio fcf 'iife^^Tlon'brrbmiow- ' must ever correspond — bo — her —^ealth — and — prosperity, that is to say, to her wealth as comuared .with that, nf England.. At tM^^P'W^^OS^J^gland has grown to be about thirty times that of Ireland, while the latter country is mulcted to"sEe*tune of one-eleventh of the whole taxationVivVnlnqotherowotfds'She J§°piying over £9 in every d&lOOiofo^he taxes, where she should be paying less than £5 jS Thgananimiil^ipn Qf o tb,isrbusinesßiiisf^lelfght-H fully simple, and^nglighilfte. H ilf nt r^sm^t wlasjdecxdea> mm London tQ^amalgamaitej i^Q > Iri^h r 4efet/WJtli f ih%iLof r Jßiigl^n6Vj or course, tor the benefit QEacdandt.AKkiGffect q£ ;whieh4wa& soon apparent. In \79pT a"&w ,ye^ lljforl Ijfore K %e Tnion^m when Ireland-.lJiad 2 hW' oW-plirl^mfe rntr/fr ntr/f fe^ij&OT. $I 2& T 9s 2d m^A^iwrnw^mmw^Pm^k .rioia?,ioo'icr {a nan silt

-KiWJLtJi VI ax f& .../TT^ „. -„- — -, „~~».-~»..».~-—-J^--to"22-9r2a-perTiead, andlihls~with an ever-.decreasing pqpu¥&mr *fete-dWW& tlje samefeperiau tt^^atfSn^TEfei 111 1 5S Ti + • been steadily decreasing with, an ever T incr~easing P992?MlflS- (5 {^S:^ie s ipx^se3i.t[<m(rtn¥iit IM'aW iHtiyVost mWi-B a^ eft&fiQuS*syxid=rfje ft&fiQuS*syxid=rfj E-ufcopepssifr W 'p&^s't, whiles E &£Mfttffe#>e posj/ilightly. t¥Se#iaiid*tlie ricHest'.**'! 0 m FmS&t "H&U «#tf tjWw fiscal relations A-Wygt^ff 11 b^iffl)f aßaffi^.QiH!'WU<M¥Bsf^t'»a Baffi^.QiH ! 'WU<M¥Bsf^t'» 'tnTll«9^ f a^K6ykl v e6niinis«on "' c^W^aWcißaJlyuo^ was appointed to lnquirteointouthePmatter* l J£iter"4o'ng j&a careful con^sideration,^^ K ejrE=roiteaiteeh'e^.thirteen members reported that for the previous 50 years or more ' Ireland had been paying and unjustifiable taxation. And^tffiFe^clisive aSd unjustifiable taxation, instead of being redueeoVor-taken off, is going on S^U^m)Ef^Mf ft^M #' W*^ .iacr.easeaicb&idintS X* fffJftfV^Bd&aSfr** Mma-ed! aMb'rigfor^ feSStfS,^WSte* f'fljf ' flj - Y.(lri^i S .r.Hoirie f o ffiSS&iW^ * hatt civile