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WH1TBY FREEPRESS, WEDNESDAY,SET BR 6,1989. PAGE 7 PAGE, SEVEN "Grab a By Dog Andrsonbueket boys! We11 float 'er yet!" The federal governmentfs proposed goods and services tax raises once again the question of how much tax is too much tax. But really, the level' of taxation ils not the issue - it's whether we're getting good value for our money. If you pay for a Cadillac, you expect a Cadillac - if you get a Chev,- you've every right to complain. Right now we're getting a Chev ... .basic gray, no options, no warranties. That's why rmn opposed to the federal government's latest i t:fj tax grab. Not only wiIl it have a devastating impact on the/1 tvM economy (in particular small businesses) but the goverrmnent '~ wouldn't need it if it spent our money more wisely. So where is the waste? No, it's not in our social welfare programs - sure, they have their shortcomings, but by and large they've made Canada one of the most humane societies in the world. Besides, this thirtyodd billion dollars is simply redistributed as income in the form of pensions, umemploment insurance, family allowances, etc. Small 'c' conservatives see this as so much red ink, but in fact this money goes straight back into the economy in the places where it will do the most good. Nor is the waste in foreign aid. Our goverinent might be wise to take a few lessons in thrift from the foreign projects it___________________________________________ funds. If our money went as far here as it bas to in underde -____._____.____._____._____.____._____._____._ veloped countries, our taxes would be haîf what they are now. The reczl fat is a lot harder to trim because it is spread -~ diffusely through three levels of goveriment bureaucracy. _________________________________________ The federal government alone speénds $8 billion paying its staff - only a small proportion of the $120 billion total it spends every year, but it could be a lot less. For all their supposed business smarts, conservatives don't run governiments any better than anyone else. But they did discover privatization. So why is privatization the rage in capitals across the country and around the world? Because private enterprise is supposed to be more efficient. Why? Because if it isn't, it won't survive. And that's why governiment bureaucracies are so inef- ficient - the survival instinct isn't there. A government job is a sinecure for life as long as you can stand the boredom and don't kili anyone. That's flot to say that civil servants aren't working - they keep busy filling in and filing formns that no one reads. Middle management sees to that. (Those are the ones who got promoted for longevity rather than ability.) They're busy as beavers running programs whose original value is lost in the passage of time. When the Conservatives took office in 1984, Eric Kierans was charged with the task of finding such waste but his report was largely ignored. Why can't governiments mun lke the private sector? Why can't the governiment lay off redundant staff. Why can't civil servants be expected to work harder? Instead of privatizing goverient jobs like they'r doing in British Columbia, why can't we simply privatize the philosophy of governiment. When Jack Tramniel bought Atari from Warnier, the offices in England employed 130 people - he cut it to 15 - three years AER[AL VIEW 0F WIHTBY PSYCHIATRTC HOSPITAL LOOKING later it was back up to forty and they were doîng three times NORTH FROM LA.KE ONTAIRIO, MAY 1931 the work. Jack's philosophy was: if your rival needs ten This picture, taken by John Ham Perry, manager of the Dominion Bank froni an airplane people, then five were essential - he used three and stilI got owned by Norman Irwin of Red Wing Orchards, was one of several photos commissioned by periOd of time, attrition ensures that the civil service is County Building as a community centre. dominated by deadwood - the most ex perienced have retired* Seven contenders for the leadership of the Ontario iàberal Party, including Robert Nixon, and the best have quit for something mopre challenging. will address'delegates at Sam Hollingsworth's fan at Ashburn. In the seventies a concept called ý"zero-base" budgeting was briefly in vogue.. Instead of buildihgeah ea'sb ýget 75 EARS AGO' on the previous one, the new1iyear's bu et would start fo h husaSetmer3 94 dtono1h zero and every program. and job was .stified and piized Wrn hTBusdy GAZeptebAN3,19CHR ionICfLe agaist ver othr. he riniple weè ovio~ an reultd *The WhitbyiSwimming Club, founded six weeks ago, is using the Ontario Ladies'College in real savings for those that used 1't. Inevitably though, po o lse fiWiein goveninnt mnagrs sffily o-9ped t ino te aA special war service to pray for the soldiers fighting in France and Belgium wNas held at bureaucratic jargon and quickly snuffed out the flame. Ail Saints' Anglican Church on Aug. 30. The federal governnient will mue thý day it invented the * Edmund Stephenson bas retired as Whitby's Canadian Express agent, due te old age. GST. Like nothing else, it has clrwn unprecedented a The Standard Bank of Canada is establishing a permanent branch at Brooklin. attention to its inability te put our house in order. LI&~ L à M