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Clinton News-Record, 1981-12-02, Page 22PAGE 22—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 ,1981. Repot from Queens Park BY JACK RIDDELiI M..P.P. A report oil BILD was tabled in the Legislature this week, by the Treasurer, Frank Miller. BILD was established as a Cabinet Committee headed by Mr.. Miller last Novem- ber, and was charged with the responsibility to design and;implement an economic development strategy for Ontario. The economic action plan formulated outlined a series of 76 projects involving an in- vestment over five years .of $1.5 billion. As Treasurer; Mr. Miller said he pledged50 per cent of that amount in the form of new money, with the balance to come from redirection of internal priorities within the government, from the private sector and 4v from other levels of government. In the nine months since January 27, BILD has ap- proved program funding commitments whichnow total $614 million over five years. For this fiscal year, the Treasurer said, BILD has approved 45 projects which . will cost about $145 million. However, Mr. Miller could not say what the projects were, but BILD released a general list of hoW the $614 million will be spent. Listings costing "$20 mIlion or more are: $20 million to subsidize rural electrical rates; $125' million for road improvements; $20 million • for capital assistance for food processing; $20 million for expanded. storage facilities for fruits and vegetables; $35 million for forest improvement. .$30 million for mining ex- ploration incentives; $30. million for .a new biotechnology company; $25 million to export support financing; $27 million -for the Toronto convention centre. Mr. Miller said that in the past year BILD has defined Ontario's economic goals for the 1980s . and devised an actionplan" which co- o "ik s and ,caflsolidittes. the government's economic levelopinentplan. Opposition Members, however, saw BIID asa reworking of programs that bad already been warmed over several times, given a new acronym and launched as a platform for the March election: Opposition Mem- bers said no real newmoney. was being spent because the province's share - $750 million, with the other half to crone from other govern- ments and private industry - amounted to only $150 million a year, the same amount that would have been spent anyway under BILD's predecessor, the Economic Development Fund. South Cayuga A� year ago, the then provincial Minister of the Environment, Keith Norton, declared that a $60 million waste treatment site would be built on government- owned land at South Cayuga, notwithstanding strong protests from the Opposition, local residents and en- vironmental groups. Now the Ontario Waste MUlanagemenk,,, Corporation has abandoned the South Cayuga Site, based on a new study _ which found it to be only marginally suitable. The cost of the delay to the taxpayers and South Cayuga residents adds up to almost $100,000, according to estimates obtained from various groups. McMichael Gallery Sixteen years ago, the government made an agreement with Robert and Signe McMichael. In 1965, the McMichaels gave more than 200 paintings, their home and 16 acres of land in Kleinburg to the province, and the government agreed to maintain the collection in perpetuity. The McMichael Canadian Collection, which many of you have probably vsited, included Group of Seven art. Now the government has drafted legislation which would eliminate the 16 -year- old agreement, and allow the government to sell paintings from the collection. "This is a violation of everything the gallery was intended to be", said Robert McMichael. "I wouldn't have made the gift if I thought this is what they were going todo". Liberal Leader Stuart Smith raised the matter in the Legislature on two consecutive days, and one hone of contention was the Minister of Culture and Recreation, Reuben Baetz' denial that he had asked Robert McMichael to resign as director of the collection. McMichael maintains the Minister's exact words were: "Will you step aside from your directorship?" Three Year Term A new law to hold municipal elections every three years instead of the every two has been in- troduced in the Ontario Legislature. The first reading of the legislation took place this week and the new regulations would affect members of municipal (ADVERTISEMENT) councils and elected local boards from 1982 onward. Catholic Schools A provincially appointed review of the secondary school system has recom- mended that Roman Catholic separate schools in Ontario should receive full financing for Grades 9 and 10. But the question of providing taxpayers' money to private or independent schools needs further study. The Chairman of the Secondary Education Review Project said that the committee was divided into those who supported a common school system for all children and those who supported a double school system. The study group made the recommendation anyway, estimating the cost at $15 million in the first year. (ADVERTISEMENT) Under the British North America,._Act, the govern- ment is required to provide equal ,financing for both a Catholic and Protestant school system But in 1 7, neither school system ex- tended to Grades. 9 or 10. The provincial government decided in the 1960s to finance separate school students up to the end of Grade 10 at the same level as the financing for students in elementary public schools. Since 1978, the provincial government has been gradually increasing that support, so that this year provincial support for separat ' achool Grades 9 and 10 is 15 per cent higher than support for Kindergarten to Grade 8. But the government still gives less to the Catholic Schools for Grades 9 and 10 than is provided for those grades in public schools. (ADVERTISEMENT) "Dear Mr. Allan MacEachen I'm a small businessman in a 40% tax bracket. , My accountant says your new 'budget' increases my taxes by 40%." GIFT OF FITNESS For Christmas! DIET CERTIFICATES NOW AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERSHIP *POOL *SAUNA *FITNESS ROOM Contoctl VANASTRA RECREATION CENTRE (3 miles South of Clinton) OR CALL • 482-3544 (ADVERTISEMENT) "1. thought this budget was supposed to get the rich, Al. Who told you l was rich?" The 162 resolutions'of Mr. MocEachen's 'budget' really don't add up to a budget, at all. Some of the largest ac- counting firms in the country .,call them a whole new system of taxation. "There's no more reward for a company do- ing well, AI?:.. If your company was doing well, you . used ,to pay - yoursle)f v dividend ° Your^^company used -to pay 25'per- cent in taxes in order to pay that dividend. The effec- tive rate is now 33.3% ("That's a jump of 1 %3, All") If your company was doing well, the company could make a car available to you for business and personal use. As a minimum you paid tax to the government on 12% of the purchase price every year. Now, • as a minimum you have to pay tax on .30% of the purchase price every year. ("What's that going to do for car sales, Al?") If your company was doing well, you used to be able to provide employees with a dental plan without any tax cost to them or yourself. Now, that's a taxable benefit. If your company was doing well, you used to be able to give employees low-interest loans to assist them to buy houses as well as other things. This assistance to the employee is now gone. All loans must be made at the same interest rate charged by commercial leaders. ("Incidentally, what's that going to do to the housing in- dustry, Al?) How the budget affects a hardware store owner. Take a man who owns a hardware store. His store is profitable. It employs five. The owner had the store buy a delivery van. He sometimes used the von personally. -,e zrseu"ici pay ibice" erri i 2tO of year for doing . Now, he'll pay taxes on $3000. An increase of 150%. The owner had a denial plan for employees. He gave it to them free. Now they'll be charged taxes on the plan. The store made a loan to an employee of $20,000 for down -payment on a house. The interest rate charged was 9%. Now the interest rate will be substantially higher or the employee will pay more taxes. The company paid the owner a$10,000 dividend a year. That dividend used to cost the store nothing to pay. Now it costs the store in taxes, $1,111. to pay. This only leaves, for the owner, a taxable $8,889., instead of a taxable $10,000. The owner invested some of his savings in a five year Guarantee Investment Certificate. He used to have to pay taxes n the interest when he got the money — at the end of t fiv year term. Now, he'll have to pay taxes on the interest accrued every three years — whether he's actually seen the money or not. Will the budget affect the person wanting to start a new business? Small businesses hove been the best job creators around. Will that be true after the new budget? Read on: You're starting a Widget Company. After the budget, the capitol cost allowance on Widget machinery in the year it is purchased will be only half of what it is now. After the budget, the interest on the money you bor- rowed from the bank to start the business is no longer deductible — unless that business is an immediate suc- cess and starts paying dividends in the first year. (Guess how often that's going to happen!) After the budget, there don't seem to be any particular advantages to going out on your own. "Al — usually when you make massive changes like this, there's a white paper first. Why are you sneaking this in?" as -givenVchance.7o hoveV soy:..V--...--- A White --A'White Paper would have been nice. "There are thousands upon thousands of small businessmen hit by your 'budget'. When you add it to high interest rates, the recession and inflation — what's going to happen to small businessmen Al, and those they employ?" If you're a small businessman reading this, we'd advise you to spend the weekend going over your books. Find out exactly what everything we've told you is going to cost. What it'll cost you. And your employees. And your customers. There's no magic wand to Wave to make it go away. You're stuck with it. Unless... "We beat these resolutions once before, Als" "In 1970, over 400,000 of us worked together. People signed coupons and messages like the one below. Rais- ed Cain. Pointed out just what the consequences of all this kind of thing would be. And we beat the White Paper on Taxation! Maybe that's why you didn't hove a White Paper this time. Why you disguised the 162 resolutions os a 'budget'." "And by the way, Al, while you are tighten- ing our belts (OUCH), the MP's are taking big increases in salaries, big increases in ful- ly indexed pensions and have increased government spending by 22%. What to do. Step one: sign and send the coupon below. We'll make sure it gets to the right people in Ottawa. Step two: go to the business next door. Have them do the same. Step three: Take an hour. One hour: dial every Liberal Member of Parliament you've ever heard of. Tell them just exactly what this new 'budget' does to you. How you feel about it. Tell them that if they vote for this Budget, you will ac- iiveeiy wolkic again -if their next election. Do any of these things. Do all of these things. Or start learning to live with a 'budget' that is about to put you out of business. 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