Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPrZTATOB."]
SIR,—Por more years than I care to count I have read the Spectator weekly and have always admired its fairness, patriotism, and absence of self-seeking. In particular I have been struck by the attitude to taxation in your leading articles. I agree with your contention that high taxation is absolutely necessary if England is to regain financial 6afety, and I have no intention of complaining of any personal inconvenience; but before this Budget passes into law can nothing be done to relieve the fearful burden cast by this taxation on the people of small, fixed incomes ? People in business can protect themselves, workers are no longer down- trodden and do not need protection, but the class to which I am referring are rarely mentioned by our legislators, much less is anything done to help them. Yet they are the salt of the earth. These are the people, mostly single women, widows, or elderly married couples, who during the war did much of the drudgery on War Committees of all kinds, gave up their cup of tea or small drop of stimulant, did without domestic help or any other small comfort which brightened their lives, in fact responded with every bit of themselves and their possessions to the call of England. Now they are being crushed out of existence with high prices, heavy taxes, lowered dividends, and the grinding financial anxiety which these conditions entail. Can nothing be done for them P—I am, Sir, A BUSINESS WOMAN.
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