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Income tax

Alex ¢
Writes, - Beasley, Winfield, B.C,

ha C. Simpson, Victoria, is
nae Tight, the man with an
ac income is getting a
“hot a tax break that he should
Trib Setting at all, (Pacific

ne, April 23,)

oe figures are a little worse
ak 8h, than Mr, Simpson points

ae the same income, the

€r and the investor, the
€t pays none of the general
ok Paid by the former, He gets
mis Rati tree. Mr, Simpson

Kingly gives him credit for
mae some, the amount equal
€ Social Security Tax. True,

We
°rker plus his other tax,

ma he argument is the general
*, in this the investor escapes.

Corporation tax

a Reader, Vancouver, writes:
re Comments by Mr, Simpson
Bee sonal income tax in your
ght 80 issue, are most en-

€ning. It may be worthwhile

ses to note how corporation in-
Me tax works,

roo tPoration income tax is

aed by companies as part of
_, tT cost of doing business, The
Se added to the price of

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fep
Co:

tax, in this way, is trans-
Ted to the customers of the
: ety. “In effect, it becomes
by th €s tax which is paid, not
~ “?€ Company, but by the public,

‘ 5 profitability. of Canadian
~ Panies is not reduced by the

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ie ‘
», PAYS this, but so does the’

€ver it is a company sells,

tax and this proves that the tax
is not paid out of company profits,

This simulated tax is very
useful to the government and to
shareholders of Canadian com-
panies for several reasons:

1, The government receives
a large revenue from it. Itisa
concealed, indirect tax and most
individuals are not aware that
they pay it, For this reason,
it is one of the worst kind of
taxes,

2. The government is able
to point to this supposed tax
and tell you that the companies
are contributing their share of
taxes, This is supposed to make
you feel better when youpay your
income tax, The tax is paid,
not by the companies but by their
customers — that is, by you,

3, Possibly the greatest ad-
vantage of this tax to the govern-
ment and to the shareholders of
Canadian companies, is that it
enables the government to say
that profits of the companies are
taxed in the hands of the company
and therefore, will not be taxed
again when paid out to individual
shareholders, This isthe excuse
the government uses to grant to
individual shareholders an in-
come tax credit proportionate to
their dividend income, As Mr.
Simpson’s example showed, this
credit allows large shareholders
to escape personal income tax,

To sum up, the so called corp-
oration income tax is a devise
that permits many shareholders
to escape payment of income tax,
either on the income of the
company they own, or on their
own personal income.

A-burning in the sun,
And everyone

Back in Saigon

| ‘The new decline & fall’
When bamboo huts and babies lie

And a'l the planes have wheeled around

Who isn’t dead has disappeared:

The message reads, ‘Mission accomplished:
The Viet Cong — and the village — gone!”
Meanwhile, back in the hallowed Halls of Congress,
In the Board Rooms and the Pentagon of U.S.A.,
The modern Neros tune their deathly lutes —
And po‘iticians nod their heads in Canada

—by John Hope

HUN,

WILSON MacDONALD

‘His poetry shows a deep

By KATE BADER

friend and I recently visited

Wilson MacDonald, He has
been writing poetry about Canada
and for Canada for many years,
His poems reflect deep love of
his country and his fellow-
Canadians,

Wilson MacDonald is a great
Canadian lyric poet. He has
never written in ivory-tower
isolation and his interests and
sympathetic understanding range
far and wide, For example,
his poem “The Serf” will surely
strike a chord in the heart of
any immigrant from old tsarist
Russia, while his “Song for Better
Understanding” is for all man-
kind,

Appreciation of fellow poets
is expressed in poems for Bliss
Carmen, Pauline Johnson and
others.

He took us into his study and
showed us many of his most
precious works, all executed in
his unique style of penmanship,
beautifully illuminated in delicate
colors, every letter, stroke and
curve an artistic achievement,

He played the piano and sang
for us — the music was his own
and so were the words, one song
proudly written as a national
anthem for Canada, as well it
could be,

The modest simplicity of the
apartment reflects the un-
common personality of Mrs.
MacDonald, When I asked what
was her particular field of
artistic endeavor she replied:
“Oh, I’m just a color grinder.”
As I seemed puzzled, she added:
«You know, every painter has
to have paints to work with and
sometimes the materials have
to be ground.” It was an in-
direct way of acknowledging that
she has been an inspirational
helpmate to her poet husband,

Reading through Wilson Mac-
Donald’s *Flagon of Beauty”
41931) one discerns the use of

Mexican

artists
hit U.S.

manifesto “To the Intellect-

uals of America” has been
issued in Mexico City, signed by
most of the top figures in Mexican
cultural life, including historian-
editor Jesus Sylva Herzog, Fray
Alberto Ezcurdia, novelists
Carlos Fuentes and Juan Rulfo,
and Arnaldo Orfila Reynal, di-
rector of the largest Latin
American publishing house,

Describing the invasion of
Santo Domingo as “a crime
against international law. . .
introducing a system of force
and violence for the solution of
American and world problems...
threatening every homeinAmer-
ica,” it calls for united protest,
«not only from Latin America
but from conscious and re-
sponsible citizens of the U.S.”

The manifesto says that “North
Americans should insist that
their government withdraw U.S,
troops from the Dominican Re-
public.”

nature’s many moods as back-
ground to events and themes,
which is in classic literary tra-
dition,

Although his eyesight is greatly
impaired, Wilson MacDonald is
still writing; indeed, he is most
generous and gladly sat down to
inscribe the flyleaf of one of
his books I purchased,

(He continues to make a modest
living from the sale of his books
and by lecturing.)

Of course -Wilson MacDonald
has long been known outside
Canada, Many years ago, Wil-
liam Archer, then dean of Eng-
lish critics, wrote: “Wilson
MacDonald interests me more
than anything else in America,”

The Rev. Robert Norwood,
rector of Bartholomew Church
in New York, pleaded: “Do not
stifle his genius by your in-
difference, Honor him and let
him feel your pride in him, He
is one of the greatest poets of
the Anglo-Saxon race,”

Indifference?

On May 5, Wilson MacDonald

love for fellow- Canadians’

reached his 85th birthday. One
wonders why the event came and
went so unremarked in a public
sense,

When in all sincerity I ex-
pressed the wish that he might
enjoy another 85 years of fruit-
ful life, he murmured, “Oh, a
hundred!” Such is his keen love
of life,

I asked whether he had yet
been commissioned to do any-
thing for Canada’s centennial,
“Oh no,® he said. “They don’t
want anything from me, If they
see anything from me they turn
aside from it.”

Wilson MacDonald has been a
lifelong, outspoken pacifist,
“I’m an active pacifist,” he said,
“I wasn’t that in the first war,
but in the second I had to be —
Hitler, you know, had to be re-
sisted,”

His poem, “The House of Re-
bels,” which opens with the line,
“Proudly I take my seat among
the rebels,” is his answer to all
those who do not like his active
pacifism and hisvigorous re-
jection of injustice and hypocrisy,

WILSON MacDONALD, one of Canada’s outstanding poets, celebrated
his 85th birthday on May 5. He is shown above signing an autograph for
a young admirer.

O, the Pentagon!

O the Pentagon, Home of the War Hawks,
Has placed the whole world in a quandary;
With the cunning ascribed to the fox,
They o’erleap every National Boundary.
Their ambition is world domination;
First, they brainwash their friends and allies;
With their plethora of wealth’s saturation,
They'd control the strand, sea, and the skies.
It’s the ‘Free World” for ' Free-Enterprise;”
Their biliionaires ruling the roost.
A few people see through their disguise,
But the brain-washed with lies are seduced.
A nation, once, ‘created equal”
With ‘inalienable rights” endowed,
How cometh this strange sequel,
If to fight they are “too proud?”
Is their constitution so constructed
To overcome it’s cold war fallacy
Making: “Government Inducted”
Conscripts it’s Peace Time policy?
O Wealthy Uncle Psa‘m!
Though ° In God-you- Trust,” *
Your use of dread naplam
World Peace will surely bust!

—P. Nut

May 28, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

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