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Letters

Chris Allnutt, Vancouver, writes: The
Corporate-funded Fraser Institute is trying
{0 put one over on taxpayers by publicizing
Information ignores the fact that the main
Teason the tax burden on low and middle
Mcome workers has increased in recent

_ Years is that corporate welfare bums have

Not been paying their share of taxes.

Here are the “tax freedom days” for just
three, quite profitable corporations, based

_ the corporate income taxes paid in 1983.

_ Husky Oil, with net earnings .before
come taxes (profit) of $95,596,000, paid
20 corporate'income tax in 1983. Tax free-
dom day: Jan. 1.

_Genstar Corporation, with net income of
- $103,040,000, paid no corporate income tax

1983. Tax freedom day: Jan. 1.

TransCanada Pipeline, with net income.
_ 9f$228,100,000, paid no éorporate income

'ax in 1983. Tax free day: Jan. 1..

~The list of individual corporate ripoffs
_ 80€s on. Using data for all corporations in

Nada, it is possible to determine a
iational “Corporate Income Tax Free
Day.” In 1970, that day fell on May 5. By
/, Corporations had managed to cut
“ir tax rate so much that their freedom

Y came almost six weeks earlier — on
Mar. 26.

is “tax freedom day.” The Institute’s -

Billions of dollars in corporate tax give-
aways and tax credits brought the effective

- corporate tax rate down from 34 per cent of

profits to only 23 per cent in a decade.

It’s not hard to see why the Fraser Insti-
tute doesn’t mention “corporate tax free-
dom days.” It is financed and run by the

Corporate tax freedom starts early

same corporate elite which benefits from the
shift in the tax burden away from the corpo-
rate sector to the average taxpayer.

The president of Genstar Corporation,
Ross Turner, sits on the board of directors
of the Fraser Institute and Husky Oil is a
corporate member of the Institute.

More Socred doublespeak

Denis Jensen, co-chairman CIP Fight-

back, writes: Here it is July and I cannot find |

one person who has been signed up for the
new Initiatives for the Handicapped Pro-
gram that was to have been started June 1,
according to Grace McCarthy’s much-
heralded press released.

When I finally got hold of my over-
worked social worker and the office man-
ager I found out that, in typical Social
Credit fashion, they only received the

forms, budgets and instructions on July 9’

on how to apply the program. So much for
June 1.

On top of that, my local Ministry of
Human Resources office has to decide
which are to be the lucky ten from that
office who will be chosen for the new pro-
gram. In other words, each office has a
quota which means about four-fifths of the
former Community Involvement Program
(CIP) workers will be sacrificed. The office

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must also select a social worker to monitor
placements and work performances and to
keep an eye on the miniscule budget. Typi-
cal Victoria — make the district supervi-
sors and the individual workers look the
sadist.

I am also told that there is no way I will
be able to go back to my old job with the
Door Check Program by which 26 lives
were saved. Asa matter of fact, the program
will not be started up because the McLean
Park Tenants Association has no paid,
employees and therefore the rule of one
volunteer to one paid employee effectively
eliminates its eligibility.

Go to the Socreds for a course on how to
continue demoralizing the poor in order to
assist the rich getting richer.

No sale for Pattison

Nels Dean, Nanaimo, writes: The longer
that Expo and these two, Kerkhoff and
Pattison, are allowed to run free, the worse
it is going to get as far as the union is

_ concerned. Pattison shouldn’t get any busi-

ness from any union member who wants to
buy a new car or have any service work
done ona car(Expo chairman Jim Pattison
owns a General Motors and a Toyota deal-
ership in the Lower Mainland — Ed,) As
for myself, I feel I would be scabbing if I
went to see Expo after all the trouble. Expo
should be condemned by organized labor

and a “do not patronize” sign hung up.

I suppose’many better than I have tried to
come up with a solution but I am disgusted
with the whole thing. It took years to get

unions built and now they could be broken .

up.

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