Equality of Sacrifice in War Time

INTERESTING letters are appearing in English financial journals on the meaning and object of sacrifice as regards war taxes. Some writers, who are  opposed to the idea of taxing special war profits and who claim exemption, argue in a strange way of which the following is a specimen: "Mr. A.J. Balfour is earning over £4,000 a year which he would not have got had there been no war. Is he to be specially taxed? My view is that the object of such taxation is the satisfaction of the sense of justice rather than the obtaining of revenue or the prevention of extravagance, and that is as likely to cause the opposite as the intended result….If the Chancellor of the Exchequer will fix his mind mainly on causing a great reduction in our national non-military expenditure by depriving us by taxation of the means therefore and subsidiarily on getting in revenue, it will be as well that be should not clog his mind by attending over much to the mater of justice between tax-payer, equality of sacrifice and such other aims."