“MAKE REVOLUTION!
Make constant revolution!’

Just thought I'd add a little
Maoist tone to the big tax protest,
chaps.

I know, fellow West Vancouver
and west side Vancouver members
of the bourgeoisie — this could
mean that our hairstyles are in
danger of getting a bit ruffled.

But sacrifices will have to be
made if we really carry out and
sustain ~— which the New
Gouge-o-crat Party government is

_ counting on us not to do — the
explosive protest against the Brit-
ish Columbia budget and the new
principle of seizure of hard-won
resident real estate that it in-
troduces.

The state wants your home.

~ And even though the socialist
Glen Clark retreated on the most
direct form of the state's grab, the
surtax ~- an invasion of the
municipalities’ tax domain — the
principle nevertheless is still in
place.

So everyone who is able, and
anyone who isn't, should attend
tomorrow's tax protest rally orga-
nized by Vancouver Mayor Gor-
don Cainpbell and West Van-
couver Mayor Mark Sager at the
Plaza of Nations in Vancouver.

Of course the ‘‘wealthy'’ and
the “privileged,”’ as Clark and his
company of big-state socialists
characterize them, are not used to
unseemly protest.

But only a determined and sus-
tained effort — not just angry
words but angry action, (oo, like,
an organized and united front to

. withhold property tax payments
— can make a dime’s worth of
difference,

The NDP lit the fuse of the dy-
namite of discontent that’s been
growing for years —~ under gov-
ernments of every party, federal
and provincial and municipal, to
be sure."

Now Clark and his cronies are
hustling-to stamp on the hissing

' fuse before it reaches the

powder. keg,

Clark the Shark’s strategyis ‘"

“simple. He aims to defuse the -
Protest piece by piece. He and the’

»_ abruptly nervous premier — who
* either can’t or won't contro! the’

“ party's Marxist-and-water wing

-> hope that the’ present consensus

‘will break down either through --
‘exhaustion or by being mollified .
~~ part by part. Such as letting up on
_ the surtax that would have, for.
-example, stunningly doubled taxes
on homes where the 1992 tariff
. was already a stratospheric
$17,000.
- Retreat, of course, also has its.
fe ‘political costs.’ But the New Dem-.
ocrats weighed that cost against

“the one of raising taxes thousands *

.of dollars at’a stroke on many

“ expensive properties. In one of the 7

worst reported examples, a Van-./

~ home assessed at more than $4.1.

“million would have faceda
$52,000 increase in her property

. tax this year _ from $13, 000, to

* $65,000. ;

* Another case 2] ‘heard of: a
woman who owns a boarding
house in Shaughnessy: iis assess-
ment is $1.2 million. And what ”
does she do to augment her in-

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come? She’s a cleaning lady. She's
sent back money to her relatives
to help buy homes in post-
Communist Eastern Europe.

And here's another example
that’s an eye-opener.

A West Vancouver man once
enjoyed a very lucrative income.
During that time he bought'a-
handsome home in a very

desirable location.

But he sold the business and
was kept on to run it. Recently his
salary was sharply cut, however,
to just under $100,000 a ycar.

You're not exactly weeping for
his plight yet, right? But his prop-
erty tax was poised to jump to the

. high $30,000 level. His income tax

is also at space-rocket heights.
Had the surtax stuck, when the

“:, colver woman with a Shaughnessy » a

dust settled he'd have been left,
having paid those two huge tax
bills, with $11,000. Extortion!
And, believe it: the withdrawal
of the crushing surtax is tactical
only, [deologically, the NDP was
all for it. Ivll be back in the next
few years under this or another
grabby government as the desper-
ation to maintain government ser-
vices — and to protect the wages
and jobs of strong-union gov-
ernment employees who areas
close to the NDP as the flesh and
the bone — gets more and more
frantic, (The NDP’s bogus,
make-work commission on gov-
ernment services, a typical payoff
to jtsell, run by a B.C, Federation
of Labor favorite, declared from
the outset that it had so intention

‘of considering or advising gov-

ernment staff reductions.)

Now, many citizens will muster
small sympathy for the victims of
a budget that especially hits those
varning over $60,000 a year, and
thase who buy passenger vehicles
over $32,000, and thase whose
homeowner grant progressively
shrinks starting at $400,000 down
to nothing at $447,000, and so
forth. They’re probably more an-
noyed by the one percentage point
rise in the provincial sales tax and
other matters closer to the average
home. .

They're wrong if they’re indif-
ferent to the plight of the so-call-
ed rich, or even pleased that the
supposed fat cats are yowling.

Because they will learn that,
once in place, the measures that

® e f -
=
hissing fuse
$4,000 exemption for married per-
sons.

In 1916 there were only 430,000
U.S. income taxpayers, By 1918
the number had risen tenfold, By
1943, a Depression and a war
later, the number had risen ten-
fold again...

You get the idea, It’s Kerrisdale
and Caulfeild today; it'll be
Commercial Drive tomorrow, and
Fort St. John the day after.

Have no doubt. The socialist...
stale wants to lake over your pet-
sonal property in the long or...
not-so-long run, without daring
to do it directly. “

Join the revolt.

are soaking the well-off at the
other end of the bout today will
be awash over their own toes,
ankles and hips tomorrow,

The historical parailel is the in-
come (ax,

To take the Ainerican experi-
ence —~ it's annoying that those
figures are more readily available
than Canada’s, [ know — income
tax, alter earlier temporary im-
positions, became permanent in
1913, '

At that time federal income tax
was levied on 1% of individual
taxable incomes, with a sliding
scale of 1% to 6% in surtax on
incomes over $20,000. There was
a $3,000 exemption for single and

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