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Mabel's Grill
"Got my income tax refund
today." the gang overheard Molly
Whiteside telling Mabel the other
morning.
"What're you going to do with
it?" Mabel wondered.
"I think I'll splurge on a mini-
vacation."
Molly said. "I
figure it
should about
pay me for
two hours
away from
real life in a
movie
theatre."
"Make sure
you pick a
local movie
theatre." Dave
Winston
called over to
her%"You go
to.one of those new theatres in the
city and you'll have next year's
refund spent too. We went into one
last weekend and it cost $12 each! I
said I just wanted to rent a seat for a
couple of hours, not buy one."
"Your refund may be small but at
least you're getting one," grumbled
George McKenzie. "Some of us
always have to pay."
"My mother always said you
should be happy to have to pay taxes
because it meant you made money,"
said Cliff Murray.
"What was she, some kind of
masochist?" George wondered.
"Well, after the hog price crash.of
1998, I'm just happy to still be
around paying taxes," said Dave.
"Yeh, but you see some people
get more from government than they
give and some of us pay more than
we get," said George, as Molly
delivered his coffee. "I mean, I don't
have kids anymore but I still pay for
schools. I haven't been to a hospital
for years but I'm paying everybody
else's bill. And," he said as he
poured double milk and two spoons
of sugar into his cup, "I never go to
an art gallery or a museum but I pay
for all the people who do. That's
what I like about the free market.
You pay for what you use."
"Mabel," called out Dave. "I don't
think it's fair that I pay the same
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
price for coffee as George and I take
mine black and he takes double
double."
"Yeh, right, like what's the sugar
and cream worth, three or four cents
extra?" George said.
"And how much did art gallerie3
and museums really cost you last
year?" Molly wondered.
"It's not the money, it's the
principle of the thing," said George.
"That's what I say," chipped in
Dave. "I either want a discount or
George should pay more."
"What is it that people catch from
cattle that makes them so right
wing?" wondered Cliff. "You guys
who hang around cattle seem to be
mad all the time — a sort of mad -
cow -keeper disease.
"I mean, look at Alberta and look
at Saskatchewan. They're side by
side but Alberta gives birth to
Reform and Saskatchewan has the
NDP and invents medicare. It must
be all the cattle they keep in Alberta."
"Maybe it's the fumes from the
gas wells," offered Dave. "I mean
George Bush is the same way and he
comes from Texas."
"No, Alberta was electing the
Social Credit long before they found
oil and gas out there so it's got to be
something else, like all the cattle,"
Cliff said. "Makes people kind of
bull-headed."
"Well if we catch things from our
animals, what does that make a guy
who keeps sheep like you?" George
wondered. "Probably vote for the
Green Party, do you?"
"What kind of gets me is that the
name of the Alliance party means
coming together to get things done,"
said Mabel. "Looking at the way
they're doing things, they either
picked the wrong name or they never
looked up the definition."
"Actually they're acting like
cattlemen," said Cliff. "They can't
agree on anything except
disagreeing."
"You mean they don't follow like
sheep," said George. "You know
what happens to sheep when they
blindly follow their leader to
slaughter."
"I thought that already happened
to the Alliance last election," said
Dave.O