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Times-Advocate, 1982-03-31, Page 5major powers are, I fear, being woefully astigmatic. The side perceiving that it was losing would inevitably turn to nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry. So, it comes down to the unavoidable conclusion that war no longer makes any kind of sense, either in Clausewitzian terms or in ideological terms. No possible national good can derive from war and no ideological position is worth. the total destruction which a major war would cause. Technology has made war obsolete. Indeed, it has taken us about 70 years to realize this. The technology of mass destruction as applied in both of this century's great wars has already taught us that modern war produces no victors. How much less sense the use of even greater weapons, of destruction makes now! It may not be quite true to say there were no victors in the great wars of this cen- tury. The United States is the exception. The USA did emerge virtually unscathed compared to the other major belligerents in WWII. This fact may help explain a persistent theme which runs through American military and political thinking, viz., the possibility of winning a nuclear war. Fortunately there is a growing amount of American writing, talking, and agitation against American nuclear policy. It is this element in American life which we must support even though practically ed people may view lic support such as referenda as insignificant. It is an act, a statement, which we hope will lead to move acts and more statements. You suggest that the USSR would not pay any attention to popular expressions of revulsion at the thought of future nuclear war. I'm not so sure. Certainly the USSR is not a paragon of democratic virtue but neither are Russians inhuman monsters ; - EVERY CAUitiil SECORD EASTER- TREAT HAS BEHIND IT THE ON-GOING TRADITION ITIoN of LAURA SECORD FRESHNESS AND QUALITY ♦ ••.t• •• •• • •• •• •.•O •�•i • ♦ ••♦ •• • ••• + •• • • •a ••,.1 ♦••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • e • • • • • • ♦4�•.• •• •• •. • •• '• ., •Y ►• ♦•�y •3 41 .4 s 4t L • to eu►t�f- o[aillhQ Mllk Chocdate ennchocolat al>tin aft last 7009 247' ri�rta.a 7.ir.N.t de. ..t.t wq .604.4.- i -.- . o, ajw Exeter Pharmcicy Ltd. Main Street 235-1570 N CAKE DRAW - A draw on this decorated cake was held at the 1st Centralia Beavers, Cubs and Scouts craft and bake sale, held Saturday in Huron Park. Selling tickets were: (from left) Marie Jaques, Barb Peckham and Margaret Kapp. fiach d oils tCgd Grants debated the income scale. So dramatic is this shift, that some of the neediest pen- sioners actually receive less under the new grant system than they did under the old tax credit system. This new grant scheme has eliminated the pensioner ax credit of $110. In addi- ion, under the old system, ax credits were reduced by percent of taxable income. hat ensured that the reatest benefit went to the eediest pensioners. This is o longer the case. Under the ew grant system, the more roperty tax or rent paid the reater the tax grant receiv- d,up to $500 - regardless of come level. Residents of homes for the ged, or similar institutions at are exempt from paying roperty tax �r rent paid the eater the tax grant receiv- e up to $500 - regardless of come level. Residents of homes for the ed, or similar institutions t are exempt from paying operty tax, are not eligible r the property tax grant. The 1980 increase in AINS payments offsets the s of $110 pensioner tax edit for some pensioners. niors who are GAINS reci- nts are therefore no fur - r ahead under the new nt system. What they eive in one hand, the ernment takes away in other. The real losers are By Jack Riddell! MPP In the 1980 provincial t budget, a new system of pro- 2 perty and sales tax grants T for senior citizens was in- troduced, replacing the tax g credit program, under which n credits were previously n claimed through federal in- come tax returns. The On- gg tario government believed it e was not receiving adequate recognition for these pro- grams, and under the new a system it mails directly to th eligible seniors a Sales Tax Grant of $50, and a Proper- gr r ty Tax Grant of up to $500. ed Beginning in 1981, the Pro- in perty Tax Grant is mailed in two instalments. Property Tax Grant: For tta a homeowner, this is equal to the amount of your property fo tax up to $500. For a tenant, this is equal to 20 percent of G rental payments up to $500. los Sales Tax Grant: This is cr $50 to every senior. Se The new grant system bears no relationship at all to pie the -itrC'ome level. In • fact it gra results in a dramatic shift of rec money available for seniors gov to those at the higher end of the ORDER EARLY Our Easter Bunny will really appreciate early orders for Easter baskets and trays. a large selection of vo V. ''w�ru• J I, 4,1 *:116 We also have611 s COLLECTOR'S PLATES including our newest arrival "Smell the Roses" (Limit two per customer) Sugar 'n �S 'pace Main St., Exeter those seniors whose incomes are just slightly above the GAINS level and who pay lit- tle or no rent or property tax. They will receive less under the new grant scheme, in some cases a drop of more than $100. By the Minister of Revenue's own admission, 95,000 claimants will receive less in grants than they would have under the old credit system. While some pensioners are receiving less money under the new grant scheme, the government spent an extra $3 million in the first year to administer the program. Some 4,418 cheques were sent out in error, resulting in overpayments of $1 million. Efforts are being made to recover the money ,from some of the neediest pen- sioners. Moreover, the advertising budget for the program ran over its $650,000 maximum level in its first year to a total of $934,700, by December 1980. The programme is an ad- ministrative nightmare. At the end of 1981, an inventory of 10,000 applications had pil- ed up. So many applicants are trying to call the Ministry to enquire about their grants, that if has become impossible for members of the public to get through. Members' consti- tuency offices, as a result, have been flooded with re- quests to find out what hap- pened to a senior citizen's application form. At the Public Accounts Committee, January 20, 1982, the Deputy Minister of Revenue admitted: "We knew our telephone network The readers write Claims referendum Dear Sir: preparing to unleash a world Your leader in last week's destroying holacaust. paper makes a not un- I think it imperative to do common response to the everything passible to bring local proposal to hold the the nuclear Issue to the referendum on nuclear human level. I totally agree weaponry. I think, however, with the American anti - that there could be im- nuclear group which has portant symbolic value in suggested that someday these referenda being held the American and Russian across the province. political leaders must sit People all over the world down together, live together, must adopt all sorts of talk together for a week or methods to demonstrate two in some location such as against not only the possible a Greek Island. Both sides use of nuclear weapons but mistrust one another, the also against their main- world's hope lies in an tenance. We must raise our abatement of this mistrust voices against the chemical on some kind of human and biological weapons as level. well. I believe then that the Those who suggest that the referendum is important. I modern arsenal of horrors believe the Canadian Con - would not be used in any ference of Bishops' future war between the denunciation of the Cruise would be inadequate." Ap i symbo parently, the system was adequate to handle existing programs such as GAINS and Ontario Tax Credit, but in the first year of the new Senior's Tax Grant pro- gram, the number of telephone calls doubled from 151,000 (in 1979) to 301,000 (in 1980). Further problems are indicated by the fact that in 1981 the number of calls in- creased even further to 320,000. • The program was proceed- ed with in spite of the fact that the Ministry of Revenue was clearly not capable of administering it efficiently. According to the Deputy Minister, at the same Public Accounts Committee meeting, "There were cer- tain technological limits to our ability to expand this capacity. We recognized this thing would be imperfect at that initial stage." Unfortunately, the situa- tion is not improving. Accor - FISH ARE FUN missile test In Canada is important and that the people of Canada should voice total opposition to the testing. The Cruise missile is used only for nuclear weaponry and for nothing else, besides it may well be obsolete very soon since I understood it takes three hours to reach Moscow from bases in the United Kingdom. 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