Locals vent
venom over
new budget

RUMBLINGS OF a tax revolt
are rolling across the North
Shore,

By lan Noble
News Reporter

Capilano-Howe Sound MP and
Reform Party of Canada finance crit-
ic Herb Grubel said Friday that 70%
of the telephone calls, faxes and let-
ters received by his constituency
office come from people demanding
taxes not be raised ip the Liberal gov-
ernment’s upcoming budget.

_ That demand, he told the News,
comes from voters across the potiti-

_cal spectrum, not just supporters of
Reform, which has made its cull for
spending cuts in the Liberal’s budget
clear.

West Vancouver residents are say-
ing, “we are taxed to che max.”
Grubel said.

Meanwhile, the North Shore
News has also been hearing from
taxpayers worried ubout higher’ tux
bills.

North Vancouver resident Bob
Hartman bluntly told the News: “I
think raising taxes is the dumbest
thing anyone can do these days.”

+ Hartman, a business analyst, cites
Canada's anemic dollar, bulging
deficit and possibility of becoming a
Third World: nation to support: his
argument.

He said Cunada must lower the
deficit, while capping taxes “other-
wise we'l) be like Mexico.” which
recendy saw its currency drop
steeply and its stock market suffer a
massive devaluation,

Stated R. and M. Lowes af West
‘Vancouver in a fetter to Liberal

“Finance Minister Paul Martin: “Nota
cent more in taxes, or you're out.”

The Lowes want Martin to slice

> government operation including the

: “overbloat: rd” civil service,

“It's my responsibility to ensure

that you are doing a good job and the .

fact remains thac Men tnd as hell and
I'm not going to take it anymore.” the
letter concluded.

That's the kind of venom Gribel
said he is hearing from kurge num-
bers of his constituents, many of

whom are sophisticated investors”

who believe tax increases are coun-
terproducuive in a society as heavily
taxed as Canacta’s.

He said constituents ‘doubt tax
increases Will lead to revenue
“inereases for the government,
‘because people would send their
rooney abroad or put itin tax shelters.

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