Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free june 1987 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council my my m m or Mehmi i ssh ii the myth of tax reduction both government and Are Busy fostering the illusion that the aim of tax Reform is to reduce nothing could be farther from the in the ultimate result of a tax Reform that spread fairness and equity to All classes and to All regions would be to make it easier for governments to raise finance minister Michael Wilson peddles his Reform package with the Promise that 80 per cent of Canadian households will have lower personal income taxes in 1988 and that his expanded system of tax credits will eliminate Federal income tax for opposition Leader John Turner complains that the tax cuts merely give Back a Little bit 6f the extra taxes the conservatives have levied since they took Power and nip Leader de Broadbent warns that what is being saved on income tax now will be paid in higher sales taxes they Are All right and they Are All the Mulroney government came to office in 1984 facing a budget deficit of More than billion dollars and Deb carrying charges which were taking an increasingly Large proportion of tax Revenue and Crip pling governments ability to provide Public ser since it has ground Down the deficit to about billion and it is pursuing the modest objective of getting it Down to billion in the 19911992 fiscal under those there is not the slightest Hope that the government can lower taxes in the conceivable it can make them fairer and this it has done by replacing tax deductions with tax credits and removing some it can spread the Burden from individual to corporations which Means either the corporations customers or its from some kinds of corporation to others and from those who earn most of their Money from employment to those who earn it from it can tax canadians a Little less on what they earn and a Little More on what they in the tax Reform in the 1980s is a Zero sum game for every Winner there has to be a loser for every tax reduction there has to be an equal tax there is Only one Way in which tax Reform can make canadians As a whole better off that is by making the Canadian Economy healthier and faster grow if businessmen invest smarter because a reformed tax system encourages them to seek profit rather than tax then the Economy will be stronger and canadians will if canadians work harder and More efficiently because a reformed tax system allows them to keep More of what they then Canada will be if Canadian corporations Are better Able to compete with foreign to invade foreign markets and preserve Domestic then most canadians will be better the government claims its package will produce these benefits but the evidence behind the claims tends to be the longer term benefits of personal income tax Reform will flow from the increased incentives for canadians to work and a tax Reform document quantitative estimates of these benefits Are necessarily imprecise because they will result from structural changes in the Economy and changed behaviour on the part of individuals which will occur Only Over a longer period of notwithstanding the difficulty of Mea Suring such impacts macroeconomic and microeconomic analyses of the personal income tax proposals indicate that the potential benefits for the medium to longer term performance of the Canadian Economy Are Likely to be claims for the economic benefits to arise out of change in the corporation tax and the sales tax tend to be in the same the second stage of tax through the replace ment of the present sales tax system and its hidden taxes on business inputs by a Broa based multistage sales tax will increase significantly the incentives for corporations to invest and will improve the competitiveness of Canadian at this the governments claims for the economic Impact of tax Reform have to be couched in those general people do not always behave in the Way that the government and its tax experts would like them to but common sense indicates that there is some substance in the claim that tax Reform will produce significant economic benefits to the attempting a realistic assessment of the potential economic benefits of tax and of the tax changes most Likely to produce them is not Likely to attract As much Public attention As debating whether a mid dle income couple with two children will come out ahead or behind under Wilsons it be a useful exercise for politicians of All parties As Well As it would be much More productive than the present Pursuit of illusory tax savings behind the kidnapping iranian concern about secret contacts Between the mutually hostile leaders of Syria and Iraq May explain the first kidnapping of a Westerner in Beirut since when a ruthless Pax syrian was imposed on the lebanese capitals murderous available information about the incident suggests that it was carried out by the lebanese shiite terrorist organization called these moslem Arab fundamentalists owe slavish loyalty to nonarae Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah who supplies them with training and Overall on iranian has kidnapped and held Western and asian some of whom have been transferred to Iran for interrogation and to prevent their the More general policy direction from Tehran to Hezbollah has been to push for establishment of a shiite theocratic tyranny in to oppose All Western interests in to Force Israel out of South to defeat the Israel backed South Lebanon army and to make alliances with including the sunni moslem Palestine liberation to help to achieve these when a tidal wave of factional fighting and killing swept moslem West Beirut Early this Syria sent in soldiers from its Eastern Bekaan Valley occupation army to restore they did so with Swift deploying Armor and issuing one warning and then shooting dead several militia members who thought they could pack pistols As the syrians paid a special visit to Hezbollah whose denizens had refused to disarm and vacate because they were trying to clean up evidence that they had detained and tortured Kidnap victims using axes and the syrians conveyed a message to Hezbollah about who now ruled West not one Hezbollah member survived the syrian a fact that May have annoyed that did enrage other Hezbollah adherents but that also stopped the kidnapping of westerners until this Charles the journalist who defied his government and common sense to visit West was kidnapped in a shiite area a few Yards from a he Bol la occupied his shiite moslem the son of Lebanon defence was not a target but was taken because he tried to Stop the it occurred within Syrias military occupation the consequence is a loss of face for syrian president Hafez one of whose policy goals has been to use his control of West Beirut to earn Brownie Points in the West by making it Safe again for he Hopes this Way to reduce animosity towards Syria because of his regimes connections with International since one Western hostage More or less is scarcely relevant to Hezbollah and since Hezbollah adherents have reason to expect such an incident to result for some of them in surgery without Anaesthetic by axe wielding the organization is unlikely to have taken such a huge risk except at the Behest of a powerful motivation for Iran would be the possibility of Success for the discreet Jordania brokered rapprochement talks that have been going on Between Assad and iraqi dictator Saddam similar talks collapsed in 1986 because neither could Rise above their nine years of Mutual so far this resumed talks have been less More Ragmat to the Point that both have agreed on a secret withdrawal of support for violent elements in each others each Side has agreed to betray to the others secret police those who loyally served them for years in campaigns of terrorism against the More important to because of its War with Are reports that Syria soon May agree to let Iraq use a pipeline across giving Iraq a Safe Way to Export More Oil to earn hard currency to pay for its War whose sole Arab supporter is now that Libya has switched has been giving Assad some free Oil and some at a deep to keep syrian to Worsen Iraq Security problem and to secure free movement Between Iran and Lebanon for its Hezbollah terrorist proxies and their iranian for these stakes Are they justify another Hezbollah kidnapping to Send a message to ump Saccora going gaga with Mugg by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press whatever happened to old whats his name that thought often drifts into the mind As one grows people keep dropping out of sight some leaving others departing this dubbed Mugg whatever happened to Malcolm Muggeridge there was a not Many years ago when Muggeridge was constantly in the Public Eye As a television personality and writer of amusing in latter years the old boy became a Strong voice in religious debates and was dubbed Mugg by Bernard it occurred to me recently that i Lead heard no news of Malcolm Mug Geridge for some had he passed on while i was on Holiday when last heard of he was Over 80 and getting older by the in a recent Issue of the Manchester guardian delivered As there was an interview with Muggeridge by Stanley Reynolds had called Mugg at his Home in and requested an the elderly now had been agreeable to the i must warn he that in awfully gaga these it turned out to be a hectic inter Muggeridge and Reynolds had met socially on a number of occasions and a been on quite Friendly terms at one but now Muggeridge seemed not to have any idea who Reynolds like Charles ryders father in laughs Liri Deshad revisited he gave the impression that he thought his guest had just arrived from the United he asked after the Alsop Brothers now both Long since dead and seemed to be trying to put Reynolds at his explain for who Enoch Powell Reynolds who has lived and worked in England since found it All very strange and disconcert wondering whether he should draw a veil Over the whole he recalled that in other had taken Delight in describing the gaga antics of such figures As Scott of the guardian and the late Winston taking his Cue from he decided to treat the gaga state for what it a pan of Malcolm Muggeridge was As Sharp As a pin when my wife and i spent a Day hanging on his every word almost a decade i was writing a column for the Vancouver Sun in those Days and i heard one Day that the celebrated Muggeridge was hiding out Over on Sal Spring Island Welcome to my column the next Day was a letter to Muggeridge and his wife welcoming them to Brit ish Columbia and promising that i would not attempt to Force my com Pany upon them in spite of the fact that they were the very couple i wanted most to two Days later a letter arrived containing the following obscure message youre breaking my Call and propose there was a Telephone number and a scrawled signature that seemed to be male was somebody pulling my leg after a great Deal of hesitation i dialled the Muggeridge answered the phone and after i had read the letter out to her she can firmed that it been written by her she would put him on the i was greeted like is that you dear boy you must come Over for the bring your arrangements were duly a car would collect us at the ferry terminal and take us to the Mug Geridge we nearly missed the Early ferry but discovered a cab waiting for us upon our arrival at we were driven to the As the cab pulled the door of the cottage opened and Malcolm Muggeridge bounded out and Down the to be perfectly my wife and 1 had both been scared to death of meeting the great what if he found us Dull what if he found or visit irksome warm embrace we need not have he was laughing us he came through the door and there o embrace us As we stepped out of the he gave the impression that he had been waiting to meet us for years and that no other would have been More Welcome at his House on that Winter our terror was swept away and in a minute we were All laughing and talking at meeting Kitty Muggeridge and being hustled along to the lunch the Muggeridge were tee total there was Beer for but no bottle Muggeridge knew of a trick to open a bottle using the Edge of a door from my boozing the top came but half of the Beer fizzled Over Muggs the hilarity we talked is he and Kitty talked and we spell Orwell and Anthony powells dance in the music of time and the Joys of Reading Evelyn Waugh for the first he indicated that he was interested in what we had to say and he listened gravely to an account of my wife childhood in a Convent in theres a Book in he he spoke i swear it of the Alsop Brothers and praised the mighty brain of Enoch we Felt As if we had known Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge All our we went for a walk and Mug Geridge Gol caught Between the slats trying to get through a farm we had o pry him anyone who saw us from a distance would have thought we were All gaga on that Bright january afternoon a decade and More and so we thank reckless Drivers the title of the article hut Rod Ding ends crash free june 11 is the title should have read reckless driving ends with the individuals involved in the senseless tire smoking incidents cited in the article Are definitely not representative of the Hobby of hot or Street Modding As it is now More commonly hot Modding is a worldwide Hobby which attracts men and women of All they refurbish and modify older cars generally pre1948 to suit their personal this Hobby is coordinated by the National Street Rod based in hot Rod Drivers take care 4 the Nora currently has members in North reckless driving is actively discouraged by this organization and by All local is reel Rod associations affiliated with individuals who insist on driving their vehicles in an irresponsible manner Are barred from future nor sponsored 1 Hope that readers will realize that the reckless individuals mentioned in the article Are not hot nor was the car a hot Rod or Street quite they were reckless Glenn Dickson la Wear helmets 1 am a cycling enthusiast who has chosen to Wear a recently i was Riding East on Highway 1 encountered a railway which crossed the this track did not run perpendicular to the Highway but diagonally across 1 was travelling at a Good Pace and when 1 attempted to ride Over the tracks my front wheel i was thrown in a Complete Bike and 1 landed on my 1 Only received scrapes and pulled what could have happened if i was not wearing a helmet i encourage peo ple to Wear helmets while if your unprotected head hits the or some other what Chance do you have Wendy Wallace Winnipeg the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to a new party Canada has reached a Crossroads in its political for the past three years it has drifted aimlessly with a government that was Given an overwhelming mandate but is totally lacking in principle and the Small opposition is led by a party whose Leader ceaselessly changes his position to whatever Way he thinks the wind is there is a third party with some policies which have been around for a Long time but which now drifts to the not by its own but by the Meech Luke Accord has finally crystallized this the lacking has decided to give away control of the Constitution to the the opposition lacking live decided there is nothing better to do Ihan the Only ones forgotten in this cosy arrangement were the Canadian lulled to sleep by this governing without principle process they nearly slumbered through the entire Pierre virtually triggered the alarm before the nation drifted past the Point of no he has also awakened canadians i to the reality of the Lack of policy and direction of All the exit ing Federal with the exception of a few individual the time has come to form a new Federal party based on the principle of a Strong Central government concerned with the common goals of it would give canadians a Choice in government and a reason to vote m1lligan Winnipeg forgotten hero on a plaque in a Field at scanner the following appears Thomas George most decorated Veteran of world War two 1940 also korean War recipient of 10 medals with two by his majesty King George also awarded Silver member of broke head Indian 1 am appalled that the Manitoba government has not done something to Honor the name of this surely if nothing was done when he was living we can commemorate his name in is there not a prom Enade or school that could be called Thomas George Prince Harding Winnipeg Scapegoat we read with disquiet the recent report on the inquest into the death of an elderly grand rapids it appears to us that the doctor in question is being made the scape Goat for inadequacies in the organization of the medical air services to the this doctor has Given Good service to Many Northern com junkies for Over 17 under conditions which would leave present Day graduates the air ambulance services of the province Endeavor to provide Good Overall care in the face of immense bad a tiny Taxa lion base and an appalling budget they do so with such quiet efficiency that it is taken As a instead of a while continuing efforts must be made to improve the to Pillory one of the caregivers is unfair and in while the report suggests that a learn of specially rained physicians stands Ever ready to hasten 10 a stricken patients bedside no mat Ter what the distance at the request of the Rural we know from experience thai it does not happen this one of us has been personally when requesting a team for a car Diac that there were no doctors available to come in and Fly the patient Ahwong and seven other signatures the Good work the business Page of the free june 10 carried a display advertisement for the Sale of a Book and stationary 1 do not know about the but Hal is often the easiest kind f store to in the same a St by included for the first time in recent the Correct use of the word principal instead of the usually misused keep up the Good Mccuaig Winnipeg and no sex ;