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111( G. MacLEOD ROSS
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It is hoped that many people
will comply with Mister
. Benson's invitation to writehim
before March 1st to give. him
their reactions' on his proposals.
What each says depends on his
particular avocation, but what is
pot particularized is that
many
are 'touched; and ;few exempted
from the rapacity of government
for their ''Wealth. These who
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escape today :_have_ 'only a�,fev�-.
years of immunity to look
forward to, because inflation
will overtake them and they too
.will become government tax
iot 'fodder.. ,
Do not be deceived " by. the
effort to pass the White Paper
off as "Tax Reform." It is, in
"fact, nothing more than an
ingenious confusion of words
whereby, as year succeedsyeaN
you will find take-home, pay
decreases, while the
government's share increases.
Here is the sort of thing you
might put into your own words:
Dear Mr. Benson: Iln acceding
to your invitation to address you
on the matterof your White
Paper, let me say that the.
general impression is the
immediacy of its obsession to
garner in the last pound of flesh.
• The minutest nit is not to be
missed. In consequence, I find it
appalling that the victims are to
=be -...afforded° moo, ,iittie` iizst
after they' have been raped, for
you have even ' aborted their
legitimate efforts to accumulate
capital. I 'admit I would: not
expect quarter fromt-a dictator,
- but I ` fail to sense—even: .a
modicum of paternal interest
from ' one who was elected to
serve rather than to• tyrannize
the People. The impression
' grows that to be a producer of
wealth marks .one as a pariah to
'et
fl
tt.
be hunted, trapped, and finally
skinned, SQ ,that even from him
that hath not shall be taken even
that which he hath;° until he
becomes just another recruit for
Welfare.
THIS CANADA
Canada, as I see ...it, is atill..in_
country very . ;Much 44on the
Make."' There is a tremendous
amount of pioneering still to be
d n :; or w ita
America_gother pioneering done much earlier
and very inexpensively; Canada
has to pay for hers at American
rates of pay, - so. that the,
development of her indigenous
Wealth is severely delayed. True"
.we war a veneer of prosperity,
but. it is skin-deep, with no
`reserve, no accumulation of 'fat'
as yet. This is one reason why
Canadian capital is in short
supply. _ •
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Another form of capital.
which Canada has hardly begun
to build up is a cache of brains
from which -to evolve creative
work. So far Canada has done
little more than support.
"service" industries. She may do
a little "improving," but by and
large she cannot` sustain a. • brain
trust such as is required by the'.
automotive, the oil, or the gas
• industries, to enable them to
compete in world trade.
The kind of , capital the
.;government. Always .:hankering -
after is "risk -capital." This 'kind
of capital can only be -had by
accumulating . /an estate . or
fortune, which outstrips the .
owner's desired' standard of
-living, by such a --considerable-
amount that ' he can afford to
risk it, to the point of losing it,
without sacrificing his standard
of living. Canada still does not
•possess the capital either to
"develop her indigenous wealth or
to nurture a nu.•pber of native
brains on a Creative industry.
The White Paper proposes to,
thwart by tax. impositions
attempts!, to progressively build
up savings (capital) in private
hands, so that the only, agency
able to supply the• government's
constant all. ;dor capital , will
continuo . t. a be .f & eagziyers, who
-have graduated .from pioneering
and have ;amassed ,"risk capital."
I can only see 1,Canadians
ac ' -n : the: n essa .
,�cumratn g ee ry' risk
capital as a result of cumulative.
savings of several generations.
Punitive estate taxes,
combined with unrealized
capital gains, taxed . everyfifth
year, will merely serve to ensure
that anestate never increases by
more than the effort-- of --one-
ister Benson
rather threadbare, however my
interpretation of the word is:
._-equal fairness to all, not 'vast
discrimination for those who.
Won't 'work; for those who have
been *on relief ,for 20 years and.:.
ti have families df .ten ' and •upi
(what 4 might be termed;
government-sponsored
populationhatcheries fob those _.
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on relief who insist on living in
Torontoor other high cost: of
.ho
livinglocalities or •those" w
insist on living, in ,such narginal
,areas as Newfoundland, where
they, demand, a North' American
standard of • living which the
local 'econor iy cannot afford to
give them AND build up RISK
CAPITAL as well. If I am to be
taxed to maintain the likes of
these __in-.the-standar.d-to_..which
they have been promoted •by the
government, then equally, I
demand in equity that my own
standard shall not be debased to
accorjnodate these peo x le
The gospel that; ..bause I
HAVE, I shall eventually HAVE
NOT, so that someone else, able
to maintain hiiriself, may retain
his economic status, • does ,not
appeal to me as equity. Not at
the end of my•'life, when nature
has cancelled my ability to earn.
included in income,nor should
it have to be subscribed to' by
those who are enjoying it.
• THE PENSIONER AND
1N FLAT -10N -
With all deference due to
yoiir oft repeated contention
that. inflation is beingheld the
�
'fact remains that I, 'and,
numerous othern' tike mei have.
yet to 'see the : evidence. The
-retiree's only weapon against
inflation is. to invest in equities,
which have growth and thus
offer to partially, counteract the
inflationary effect.' Your
proposal is to tax this capital
growth. How • am I, and
thousands like me, to keep
head if .my-un-real-ized-capital
gains are sequestrated by the
governtnent? As a `middle class"
retiree, I. bid fair to lose the
capital it took me 50 years to
collect, on . three counts: First
supporting the poor; Second
maintaining the government in
power;, Third denied the logical
means to counter inflation.
WHY THE DEFEATISM?
eration. In consequence
C-a'nada' s • development. by
Canadian capital will never get
Off the ground. To this extent,
the White. Paper proposals tend
to repress the development of
Canada, . not to help it.'
Furthermore it is in ,proposals
,such . as these that the full
political import of the Paper
reveals itself, for this is taxation
to the definite end of making
the government so
wealth -possessed that it will be
enabled to buy its permanence
in office.
= WfAAGO - NTENSION --
Cost to produce maple syr'
greatly from year to year
----Ely W. J. Dillon, Economist
Farm Econom ics,
Co-operatives and
• "Statistics Branch
°Ontario Department of
Agriculture and Food
A cost study on maple syrup
production for the years 1967,
1968 and 1969 on Ontario farms
reveals thea variations in costs
and net returns that can occur
from year to year. Seventy-seven
records suitable for analysis
purposes -were collected over the
three-year period.
The size of operation on a
group basis varied from 1,213
trees tapped per farm in 1968,
to -1,441 trees per farm in 1969.
The number of taps per farm•
ranged from 1,664 to 2,075.
Production varied from 297
gallons .per farm on a group
average to 368 gallons.`
Individual variations were even
greater. At .18 to .19 gallons of
•-syilip" j3'er tap, •it took 51 to 6
taps to produce a gallon, of
syrup.
Labor hours per gallon and
per 100 taps were fairly constant
for thethrees years on a group
average basis. Labor hours per
gallon were 1.7 and 1.8 for the
three years, and ranged from 30
to 321/2 hours, per 100 taps.
- Gross returns per farm ranged
from $1,922 to $2,536, and
total costs per farm frofri $1,708
' to . $2,251. Gross returns ' per
gallon varied from $6.04 to
$6.90, and costs per gallon from
$4.77 to $6.16.
The lowest cost per gallon
($4.77) in 1967 is attributed! in
There is another and' more
individual aspect of your
proposals to soak the "silenced
majority" - the "middle class"
the drones — for `benefits'
which 1 are not spelled out. Very
little ;acknowledgment is given
the pensioner, the retiree, the
individual with a fixed income.
Both Federally and Provincially
the word "equity" hag become
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part' to lower investment in
syrup ,equipment per farm on a
smaller number of farms (15)'.
and the lower labor rate ($1.25)
assessed per hour for t family
labor, compared' to $1.50 per
hour for the 1968. and 1969.
records.
Net returns per farm, in order
of value, were $89 in 1968,
$285 in 1969, andr$454 in 1967
or a spread of $365. Net returns
per gallon.were 30c in 1968, 78c
in 1969,, and $1.27 in 1967_ Net
returns per'tap varied from 5c• to
24c. Gross returns per dollar of
costs were $1.05 in 1968, $1.13
in' 196.9,• and $1.27 in 1967. If
we take 20 percent as a
reasonable margin above costs,
only one year (1967) gave a
reasonably good return above all
costs. -
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Canadais a marginal country.
It is an undeveloped country. It
is a deceiving country because it
FRESH rDAILY-
fie
has vast area bit minimum
population. As the ad says,. it
just, a Big Land., — not a big
nation. This misconception
colors beth federal and
provincial outlooks when 'they
iirisist, on over-goveiining,..as they
do. Canada -is a country suffering.
froze inflation. 'I;he' simplest
action which once. men did for
love, now costs' • dollars and`
cents. I -low is .the `country to
survive in solvency under , a
p ottcy which " insists ' that
government Can spend money to
better advantage than , : free
enterprise? By annually
sterilizing large sums of Capital
on `make-work' programs which
pay no dividends and by trying
to "grow "pineapples on the
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areas—off-•the country. Surely•
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an themselves without trying to
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eventually the ' funds' might
accrue to carry out all the
do-goodisms,. the • watless
projects so dear to the respective
hearts of Federa and Provincial
governments. Must we,Canadians
livie forever under a'
governmental cloud of
artificiially-produced defeatism? _
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