MEANWHILE BACK IN VICTORIA. «NO NO MIKE, THE MAYOR OF TERRACE... the Liberals with enough ammunition to attack the supposedly-socialist. hordes. If the Liberals hit the target and cause some. (political) casualties, they could attract a lot of funds and supporters to keep fighting the war. But if Mr. Wilson and his troops fire blanks, watch for desertions from the ranks into an entire new right-of-centre army. You heard it here first, folks! Parting Thought: The latest rumblings sur- rounding the pending trial of disgraced former premier Bill Vander Zalm suggests that the case just might not reach court. Scheduled for May 17, the three-week trial could: ~ be cancelled if "a deal" is worked out between the attorney-general’s ministry and Mr. Vander Zalm’s. lawyers. Given the serious nature of the breach-of-trust charge, and given the position held by the former Premier, methinks there would be hell to pay if the current government agreed to any deal. Please, let's keep the whole thing out in the open — where it belongs - before a judge and in the court room - not settled in some backroom arrangement which would only add to people’s cynicism about politics and politicians. NO EIFFEL TOWER...THATS RIGHT T-E-R-R-A-C-E.. “TAXING THE SUNSHINE The following item is from the most recent of a series of analysis pieces distributed by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, a national non-profit group with 30,000 members dedicated to ferreting out flaws in government taxation policy ‘and to exposing examples of stupidity in government spending prac- tices. The author of this piece is Kevin Avram, an accountant. In the 1700's, in a move that would undoubtedly be considered bizarre today, the government of England imposed a window tax on all the houses in that country. At the time, tax collectors liked it because it was an especially easy tax to collect; all they had to do was simply count the number of windows on the outside of a house and calculate the amount owing accordingly, Despite the fact that the tax collectors liked it, , England’s window tax eventually had a very negative effect on people’s health and enjoyment. That’s because instead of paying it, people began to board up most of their windows, or build houses with fewer windows in an attempt to avoid paying it. Terrace Review — February 28, 1992 23