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.? or which demands A forfeit in the coUntrythat they feel it •accustomed apathy ,and 2. 11,e for the development . of the
BY G. MacLEOD ROSS, . the shape of :a . fUrther Ilee'PsSarY to levy a crippling tax has instituted a "write-in" wind.), country, thus providing the less
, diminution of your fortunetthat as the price which any emigre has developed into. , a well equipped, the 'followers',
Mr. Benson calls it "Reform" there is reason to rebel and ask i• will have to pay. A Fiscal Wall! country -wide essay cOmpetitionwith jobs. What - does . 'fair'
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- "Tax. ReforM" aAd devotes A Did - We really vote such By and large no effort has The Only thing lacking from the mean? It means that no
whole White Paper to. the confiscatory ideas into office? - been made to explain,' plain latter is a prize; for example a government in peacetime should
subject, which anyone can have The Paper presages a life, forcibly' English (or French) to the men ' si x - m o n ths course in have }unlimited •and increasing
for tate asking. Of course, in - spent in Company' with a who are going to pay the ,accountancy to help you fill in . access • to the pockets • of its
terms of the new. T.1. Form counterfeiter, 'for .you will never spender 1. For what is all this Your income tax form. ^ People. On the contrary, a•
which will appear, it is tax luickv from one year's end to the extra Money required? 2. Where,A
-•,:t tins stae eveobvious
•-, government should be content
gry
reform but whether the tax next bow much of your wages, geographically, is. all the poverty . point in,' the leper has been . to demonstrate what it can do
reform content eqdals., the will be depreciated for someone located and b,y what standard is discovered and annotated. What within a fixed percentage of the
content of aoclal reform is open i el.le's,benefit. , • ' - - , it "poverty"? It has been well National ,Product, of the
is left is What Iles beneath the previous yar.
t.9 ,COPsiderable doubt. . Mat draws the expert,s' said that "Welfare is " odl Outside which hides the
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go Y „ , Should we have rushed
The pfovosals in thit Paper attention ' ',, to ., these traps? s 9, in e t h i n g - f o r - n o t h i ti g Mr. Benson ' has
have done More ' than anything NOthing less crustrating than the punishment." Once accepted, no . falsehOod." bald-headed into Medicare? Did
'himself courted criticism every
• ege, • certainly More' than any fact that if you know enough - eneever gets away. .4. ,,,,1 , time he has appeared 'in public' We really have to expand our
other Canadian pOlitician ,bas if you can buy a.' good enoughuniversities from four to 14 in a
Thie longer you contiOet* and "Be reasonable; Do it my
-' -done - foryearg, to-shodk -the accountant -------yog-ccui laugh -at- -matter ef-a--
-White „ • - Paper; the more waY -10proach is suprimely
with a balanced outlook knows
'silenced majority' out of, its". Weill all. 'As Edmund Burke , astounding it appears. Consider subtle. His starting point is that
apathy, but there is another migtit have said: Ifwe command the .answer to both questions is:
' how ludicrons •is its political he Elitist have more revenue At
1\TO! We could not afford it. So
aspect . which can, only be our wealth we shall be free; if impact , on .-Federal/Provincial Once, and thereafter,
4. regarded- as retrograde. The our wealth is' commanded (by relationship' as far as Ontario' is ' succeeding years he will receiveninodWiMr. Bea:on is telling us
proposals will make the the hazards pf the White Paper) concerned. By creating this more and ,more. What • the- reetly, through our
PJPvin_eial ,government
confusion of the present Form we shall be, poor indeed. (Mr. diversion with his White F'aPer; revenue is required for, riCi One is
big -spenders, what these two,
T1 worse confounded, so that • Asper the Winnipeg lawyer inr`hiS Mr. Benson has provided the told and most probably no one
the Eastern European article in the 'Globe & Mail' of Ontario Government - with a has decided. among many, gross blunders
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gous smoke-screen,,i behind But the public has, by this, have cost. He has taken the cue
immigrant, will be still further 19/2/70, cites some of the rat
buffaloed. In "despair, he will be occupational hazards which have which to carry out its abortive had time to read, mark and from these past expendituresbuffaloed.
Pr forced to employ an accountant been sprinkled throughout „the reassessment farce, the main learn, and •certain critics have and decided that the sins of the
to devise his tax return. Whether White Paper.) few shall .be expiated by the
purpose of which seems to be to gone back to first. principles and many.
this is by chance or design, for One of therevoke the principle of supply acre asked,: "What•do Canadians family Personal possessions,
Minister's most
Mr. Benson - is himself an cunning devices is the way in -u heirlooms, purchased
and demand; a, massive want in their (ax system?"What
accountant, no one is prepared which parliamentary .Procedure - sledge -hammer to kll a fly. A is "Fair Taxation?" One of the .over the years, long before
to say. But perhapg you can is flouted and recourse had toinflation, , all these are'to be
reassessment of Domesday Book most constructive letters to date
distinguish the writing on the flying a kite marked 'Proposal proportions, merely to correct a is that from R. Gordon D. valued at vast expense and
wall. You have noted what law' Only.' Everyone must welcome thereafter taxed, or surrendered
minOrity of ‘`inequities' - Anderson of VVillowdale in the
has done for the legal profession; the opportunity to express anat the nearest pawn shop.
' otherwise, some taxpayers who Globe & Mail for 26/2/70. He
you will not -have long to wait to opinion, but why postulate such Fair taxation should raise
are • believed to be getting .a reminds us that in our apathy we only the revenue ' that is
see what "tax" does for the a reductio ad absurdum? Why. preferential deal. Perhaps after - have permitted our governments,
accounting profdssion. •-d such a 'way Out' and divisive , all, Ontario at'least, was meant whether Federal, Provincial, or „required; not that which is
But why, when 'you are piece of social reform? . to live by accountants 'and Mtinicipal, to assume the mantle desired by ministers who see the
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,ttlp "tax structure", The Minister has a further assessors . alone. No • wonder' ofa , dictatorial infallihility, way to power and personal
4 - why is it..negessary to make it so trick up his capacious sleeve. . unemployment in Ontario . is surprising state of ming in an ageeagtngrandizement by building
pins of _their .own.__Fair
-- ---Com:plex?.1s4tfficient-to-seek -Having tabled an impossible negligible -!,--But -it is reallyttratte ---Arf-----perritissiveness;, Art -,,,which taxation should-encouragesaving
to gather up every last grain of proposition, he limits ciiicism to to ,see a Liberal laying a false everything is turned -over and for investment in the
`dues'? If all this' nit-picking- some method whereby both his trail. for Ontario provincial reappraised.
taxpayers to follow and to• development - of Canadian
were, costed, would it bay the taxation requirements and his Thus Mr. 'Anderson starts resources. Mr. ,.... ' Anderson's
• coSt of *collection? (In my brief- social -reform .can , be effected. coruscate, whilst they.. fail to see from the logical position. What proposals beg for simplicity
encounters- with accountants Usually an tuipossibie proposays the beard -in the eye of their do WE want, WE who pay the rather, than the;complexity of -
-- " -they-afe--ria- fifk: -lieerr -On -Mt -sac-011'W 'to; severa17-MunieiPal Affairs Dept. head. piper and he answers: We want a
g., tax system which is not designe . the White' Paper proposals,
cost:accounting.) Why should solutions. In the- result, the
Through all • this Ion ' d which are designed to keep the
.„still further ways be devised to Minister's - apparent . "sweet
criticism, where does the Prime. to raise more and more revenue government' computer centre in
sterilize 'hard-earned wages. We reasonableness" is but an -
Minister stand? Was his :recent , for the 'Several 4overnments to business, churning, out useless
... ' cannot live - by • accountants example of "Be reasonable: Do
arctic trip an effort to get away spend as they, 'in their minority statistics'. Here are • Mr.
alone, much less by bivil servants it, my way." _. :
from it all?- Doe's the Cabinet /position, deem wise pn projects Anderson's 'proposals: No tax on
alone. (Of course civil servants Another heartening proviso,
take any .responsibility for the • for which we, the, People, have low incomes up to $2,400 single
• never come 'alcine'. They, come which has received . little given no mandate. In effect he
social reforms -envisaged in ththegiven $4,000 married. Tax to
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' in hoardes.) , attention from the legions of
Paper? Isn't it time ' those . proposes governments begin at 10 percent, reach 20
Confusion and complexity critics, is that ,whether- you like
Members who understand, the' themselves should' budget, and percent at $20,000; 30 percent
may catch the naive, which is what is ' finally legislated as
Paper stand up and'explain tous no longer in name only. In 4act, at" .$30,000; 49 percent at
* bad enough, because the acid "Reform"; you are not going to
morons 'what it is that • is sO . 'starting from a fixed sum, this $40,000 and 50 percent at
test of any man's understanding... be allowed to escape from the
much , to our benefit? would be. apportioned amongst $50,000 or more. ItAl
•l not tax
of his own proposition is the country, short o submit ng to i the several Departments, all of - small business at the same rate as
clarity with vvhith it is stated. It the rape of your estate. .
whom, like you and I would • •
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•certain wants more money
this 'year and next year and on
and on geometrical
prOgression. Just as, your income
°rises annually due solely to
inflation, the lax • brackets
remain fixed: BY these means
you automatically graduate into
a higher and _higher tax bracket
until death you does pait. This is
-the portion- of the ice -flow
beneath the water.
Nex eek: "The Northwest
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, . . ., . big business, because small
0 is when the path is studded with Obviously the influence of the have to •keep • within. that bu§iness, requires more of its
East German Wall has been too Whatever your feelings about a .really u d
llotirient This wo I -be a •
income to grow.
hazards, pit -falls,, traps,
quicksands and crevasses, each: imprese . for our legislators. Mr. Benson's White' Paper, two REFORM in uppercase! •• What does Mr. Benson say to
, Obviously they, have .-so little things are irrefutable: 1 -le has The system .shouid 6e fair tosucir proposals? His theme has
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6 , confixience- in the prosperity of stirred Canadians out of their all; it should provide incentives: stiii. to , be disclosed, but it is
FAIR TAXATION
Nile U.C.W. meeting was held
• at the home of Mrs. _Len
Christilaw,. president Mrs. Elwyn
Pollock in charge.
The meeting opened with a
few words of welcome and
.appreciation to the hostess.
Mrs. Robt. McPhee and Mrs.
—David McDairmid were in charge
of the -devotions which included
scripture reading, ,commentary
and prayer:
-- During the business part of_
'the meeting, the secretary's
report, was read by Mrs. Alvin
Kerr anda thank you note from
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford McPhee in
appreciation for lunch served
after the funeral of the late
Ralph McPhee. ° - •
Mrs. Pollock gave tkie
treasurers report in the absence
of Mrs. Wilmer Rutledge. •
itt . A pot -luck luncheon meeting
will be held in the church with
Dungannon U.C.W. as guests,
April 16 at 1 p.m. The program
• committee will arrange two
nOmbers for the program,
TA -Mission Festival will be held
' in Lucknow May 1 and 3. Nile
church group will be in charge of
a display on Mission work for
Canadian Indians. .
A bafe-will•be sent to Saugeen
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Indian, Reserve 'and articles
should be brought to the May
meeting.
The U.C.W. is ' asked to
arrange fa', the church service
for the first Sunday in August.
Lunch was served by the
. • hostesses 'Mrs. , Len Christilaw
- and -Mrs. Horton .Talmay and a
social hourenjoyed.
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