'@~ Sunday, February 19, 1995 — North Shore News Sit ith Heys i “pga . SoN, You kNow/ How You'Re ALWANS REBELLING ACANST “TRIS AND. REBELLING ‘AGAINST “TRAT-.. Tax r VO IN CASE you hadn’t noticed, a revolt against the . » tax revolt is now in full -- swing. The tens of thousands . of Canadians battling against tax hikes are sudden- ly under heavy attack them- selves. - ; ‘Labor union bosses. politically “correct newspaper columnists and _ assorted bleeding hearts with oxy- ‘ gen-deprived brains are rushing to warn us that tax hikes are both inevitable and morally « desirable. . a Don’t fight the debt on the backs of the poor, they cry. Keep ”” the UI, pension and welfare : largesse coming. Pay for it by pil- lorying the’ corporations, soaking ‘the rich and squeezing the last.drop Sof blood out of the rest of us.: _. Why, that way, they add, we . might even have enough left over * to cut the deficit a teeny-weeny bit, 100. “a? This feather-brained logic, of : ~ course, is exactly what has landed: us in our present mess. It results from three decades of tax-and- spénd politicians mysteriously ° - blind to the relationship between deficits, debt and compound inter- : est. Yet the answer is so simple. . . If my monthly expenses exceed “my, monthly take-home pay, I have three options: (1) increase my income; (2) borrow. the amount of my monthly shortfall; or (3) cut back my expenses. Most of us can’t ‘immediately do much’ about tC). “Publisher: ; Comptroller 985-2131 (01) | 1139 Lonsdale Avenue... North Vancouver B.C. V7M 2H4 "North Shore Managed TRANS DAD, BuT CONSULTING ON TAX Revolts Just Isn'y Noel Wright _ and yon ‘Some of us are tempted by (2) and: live to regret it. The rest of us bite the bullet and settle for (3) until things improve. ; Our governments since the "1970s have gone exactly the oppo- site route. Continuous spending ‘increases, met by continuous bor- rowing, supplemented by ever- growing income from continuous tax hikes, Politicians being what they are, spending will obviously never be controlled — let alone cut — as long as it remains possible to wring still more dollars out of the defenceless taxpayer. : Already, 35 cents of every.tax ‘dollar goes just to pay interest on the debt, now soaring by about - $4.6 million an hour or more than - $40 billion a year. That’s why the ‘deficit —- every last cent — must be ELIMINATED, not simply feduced, by Is 1997-98 at the latest. If, news wie 2 OW. DIM does the Greater Vancouver 1 Water District (GV WD) think we real- L wily are? A recently released report examining the possible linkages between log- ging in the local watersheds and 22 landslides in the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam watersheds in December finds no connection between the two. Warm temperatures and heavy rains caused the slides, The slides, hy the way, are the events that. bring you all of that lovely brown drinking water so frequently. Logging, says John Morse, manager of water engineering and . construction for the GVWD, has had “absolutely nothing to do” with the slides. He says environmentalists are simply spec- ulating when they maintain that logging and the resultant clearcut blocks and extensive system of logging roads are contributing fac- t foes craz not, what will happen to social ser- vices when the moneylenders even- tually take not 35 cents but 70-80 cents of every tax dollar? Meanwhile, spending cuts are now the ONLY way left to elimi- nate the deficit, because today’s exorbitant taxes are already stran- gling the economy and contributing to stubborn unemployment of near- ly 10% — even as a new recession looms on the horizon. That’s why © foes of the tax revolt have to be more than somewhat crazy. In any case, the good news is that those in genuine need should have little cause to worry, The bloated civil service plus handouts to special-interest groups, business and foreign aid offer savings of at least $43 billion without touching, the social services. So shed no tears for the dying © breed of tax-and-spend dinosaurs. ’ Pray instead for a government with guts! WELL WORTH an art lover's visit to North Van District Hall Gallery until Feb. 28 are the abstract lyrical landscapes and - |, ‘watercolor portraits of Morocco by ~ Burma-born North Van painter Adam Sultan. WRIGHT 0 OR WRONG: Never envy folks who have everything. ; They probably haven’t Paid for it yet. _ Dear Editor: - bE EEE tors to slides. His position is no surprise given that GVWD is a logging junkie. There is much, prime timber in the watersheds. There is a lot of money sitting there, waiting to be plucked.” With public access restricted, GVWD pub-. - Hie accountability is kept to a minimum. In the meantime drinking water users must their throats. locally? . “People will have to drive to Surrey to have a cigarette.” . West Vancouver District Coun. Andy Danyliu, during council dis- cussion of municipal actions to make the district entirely smoke- free, on the impact of those actions on smokers. (From a Feb. 12.North Shore News story.) ~ “This is to be a peace memori- . al, not a war memorial.” Senator Ray Perrault, the chair-; man of the committee to raise funds for the restoration of the cenotaph in North Vancouver «| City’s Victoria Park, on what the memorial represents. (From a Feb. 12 North Shore News story.) “¥’ve described it as not contend with more chlorine shoved down, A’ recent decision, in which the province admitted liability te damages caused by land- slides resulting from logging in the Slocan Valley five years ago, gives watershed logging: . opponents a glimmer of hope. There, too, high . rainfall was argued as the culprit... - It’s one of the first successful forestry mal- practice lawsuits in B.C. Could it be a harbinger of things to come: falling in the major crimes cate- gory. But I don’t dismiss it all Labor, Skills and Training ©’: Minister Dan Miller, on the con-" cerns raised over an audit of North. Vancouver's Capilano College that : confirmed sonie allegations of mis- use of college funds and assets. : (From a Feb. 12 North Shore News story.) “We gave it up for 350 fish a “year.” West Vancouver resident Bob . Scott, lamenting the defeat of a proposed 150-bed seniors’ care facility adjacent to fish-bearing, Brothers Creek in West Vancouver. District’s Cedardale residential : area. (From a‘Feb. 1 3 North Shore News Story. ) narrow-mindedness, Mc Re: Collins unleashed ‘\.... Jan. 29. Open letter to Doug Collins: I have foliowed your column on - and off for several years. You have - angered me, made me laugh (most- ly angered) and caused me to really think about my position on things. _ This is the’ first time I’ve ever written to a newspaper. and. it: is because I take’ such exception to your proud feelings of being a bigot. When I checked my ‘Webster, “found: this definition: : 1:’a" pers who holds blindly and ‘intolerantly to a particular creed, opinion, etc. 2. a narrow-minded person. : - ness..: We. ‘all ‘have :.our “darker moments and no one’s a saint. was taught that although this is natura it is not good to feed into it...” - Why are you: $0. boastful : Mr. . Collins? _ B. 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