Dear Editor:

Prime Minister Mulroney has
taunted us to come up with an
alte:native option to the proposed
Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Let’s give him one.

The GST, which was supposed
to be revenue neutral, is a prime
example of the federal govern-
ment’s ability to collect. money

MAILBOX
Feds should cut spending instead

from the taxpayer without any ac-
countability. Mr. Wilson, the fi-
nance minister, wants to replace
the $18.5 billion revenue from the
existing federal sales tax with $24
billion from the proposed GST
without applying any of the excess
to reduce the deficit.

In my book that’s not revenue
neutral. They should simply cut

spending instead.

Or...maybe the time has come
for provincial governments to
become more directly accountable
to the people they're supposed to
serve by administering and manag-
ing their affairs by collecting their
own provincial taxes based on
consumption. The federal gov-
ernment could then govern the

Here are some GST suggestions

Dear Editor:

The first obligation of the fed-
eral government should be to
reduce its expenditures.

The second obligation should be
to go back to first principles on the
Goods and Services Tax. If we
must have this tax, and I am not
convinced we should, let’s try to
do it effectively. To do this Mr.
Wilson must:

© Negotiate a deal with the pro-

vinces for a single, visible sales tax
administered by the existing pro-
vincial tax collectors.

@ Cancel all exemptions, thus
removing the massive and expen-
sive ‘‘Don't tax me’’ campaigns
currently under way. This should
also prevent the new tax from
becoming another version of the
present Federal Sales Tax with all
its difficulties of deciding which
items are taxable.

© The system must be kept ad-

ministratively simple to avoid driv-
ing our many small businesses into
bankruptcy by the cost and hassle
of collecting and remitting the
GST.

If these tasks are too difficult
for Mr. Wilson he should resign
before he is allowed to create a
monster that has the potential to
seriously disrupt Canadian com-
merce.

D.F. Griffiths
West Vancouver

Ottawa setting up a ‘cash cow’

Dear Editor:

The Conservatives and their
flacks and toadies are working
overtime to ram through the
Goods and Services Tax.

Mr. Wilson says the GST will be
“‘sevenue neutral,” but he also

says it will collect more than an ex-
tra 5% billion dollars or over 30
per cent more than the Manufac-
turers Sales Tax which was recently
increased to 13% per cent.

He also says GST is not a new
tax but a replacement for MST.
This may not be an cutright lie,

” F-A-S-T COLLISION REPAIRS

but we have not had a tax on ser-
vices before. And the economy is
becoming more and mere service-
oriented,

What a “‘cash cow’’ they are set-
ting up.
William McNab
West Vancouver

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7 - Wednesday, November 22, 1989 - North Shore News

country on the taxes they would
collect based on earnings.

This would certainly eliminate
all hidden taxes, the need of trans-
fer payments, reduce the federal
bureaucracy by 15 to 25 per cent
and do away with the bribery they
now hold over each province.
Rou Gamble
North Vancouver

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