Bagian 3 UAN 2000
Wacana 3 untuk-soal nomor 5 sampai dengannomor 8.
Nobody likes paying taxes. Even those who know
that taxation is necessary and just are reluctant to pay
taxes. It is not pleasant to see part of your monthly
income taken away from you in income tax. Ignorant
people think this is an injustice and make a grievance
of it; so it is just as well that we should know why we
are taxed, so that we can see the fairness of the system.
Every country must have a government of some
sot. or life would be impossible. The primary duties of
a government are to ‘protect the life an property of the
citizens, to maintain law and order and settle dispute
between citizens in a just and orderly way through the
law-courts, to defend the country from foreign foes,
and to maintain the roads and highways. Besides, may
governments maintain and direct public duties need
money: an army and navy have to. be kept up, the
police force and the judges have to be paid, schools
have to be provided and teachers supported, expert
health-officers and sanitary engineers have to be
employed. Now where is all the money needed for the
public service to come from? The question in answered
by another. For whose benefit are all these service
maintained? The answer is, for the benefits of the
public. It is the people as a whole, rich and poor, that
benefit by security of live and property, by the sound
administration of justice, by the maintenance of roads,
by the public hospital, public schools, and good
sanitation. Therefore it is only right that the public, the
individual citizens of the country should contribute the
money needed; for the money the give comes back to
them in the shape of these public benefits which all
enjoy.
So long, therefore, as we have a good and
efficient government, so long as our money, is being
used in the right way, and so long as the burden of
taxation is distributed fairly, as different classes can
bear it, we have no right to grumble at having to pay
our share of the taxes. ?
