WHITBY FREE PRESS., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1980, PAGE 23 Government should do nothing, Posma Roif Posma New windshield stieker for commnercial vehicles Starting Feb. 1, commer- cial vehicle operators willl get a new kind of licence plate and a windshield stlcker when they renew their licence plates and permit8, Minister of Tran- sportation and Comn- munications James Snow sald recently. "Llke passenger car licence plates, these new commercial plates wil stay unchanged each year." said Snow, "but at each renewal perlod a permit validation sticker and a windshield stlcker will bu issued. " The windshield sticker must bu affixed to the lower left-hand corner of the commercial vehicle's win- dshield - and at each renewal the previous sticker should bu removed. Snow urged owners of commercial vehicles registered in 1979 or previous years who are ap- plying for 1980 registration to bu sure to fil out and bring with thein the new "Application for Renewal Registration - Commercial Vehicles" forin, now available at ail MTC licence- issuing offices. The new form, along with the filled-in application on the back of the' existing registrationi form, and proof of insurance, willbu required when applying for 1980 registration. The new "6perennial"i plates wWl show black let- terlng on a white background, and wil no longer denote the validation period of registration. There wlllbu no change to the present annual and quar- terly fee scbedule. 4"4&fter the initial plate issue, the new systemn should help, cut down the tixne required to renew a permit at licencé-issung offices," said Snow, "because no permit need bu typed or plate issued. It becomes a simple routine of issuing a windshield stieker and validating the permit with a sticker - just as car drivers' permits are validated now." What should, the next federal government be doing about our current economic situation? Nothing, accor- ding to Uibertarian Party candidate Rolf Posma. "The Libertarian philosophy is that gover- nment should not interfere in individuals' lives," Posma says. "Why should a gover- nment force anyone to pay for a UIlk Marketing Board which increases consumer prices - to pay for medical insurance if one doesn't want it - to pay for unem- piuyment insurance if one doesn't want it because he's been employed for 20 years? " he asks. Posma said that those who criticize government for what it does only want agovernment interference if it is a benefit to them. This only produces more bureaucrats, more waste and more government inef- ficiency, he dlaims. "Yet, people still have faith that, in a crisis, 'The goverument should do something,' " Posma Says. "How long will it take us to realize that 'government doing something' always leads to a situation worse than the one they're 'dong something about."'" Posma also States that government should not have to prop up businesses, finan- cially. ",Small businesses (or large ones, for that matter> don't need government boans. They merely need to be free from government regulation to get on with producing what they want to produce. " he says. Posma says that, in Canadian politics, more of- ten than fot, the basic assumptions are wrong and, therefore, the arguments flowing from them are wrong. "The other political par- ties argue about what they should be doing about economnic matters," he says. "The Liberarian Party knows that governmnent should be doing nothing. " "'Goods and services will be provided when people are lef t alon e to provide them. "The government's job is to see that force and fraud are not used. " Posma, a purchasing agent for General Motors, said that the 18 cent a gallon excise tax is an agrument over how the money should be raised, not whether or not the money should be raised. "Eastern Canada must face the reality of expensive imported ou 50o that it will produce and conserve its own fuel," he says. "The government can buy bEastern Canadian votes by making their fuel cost the same as fuel used by the rest of Canada. "But the government has no money except what it takes from individuals. Ail of us put our our own votes." Posma scoffed at the idea that the mortgage tax relief is a handout. "So ingrained is the notion that taxation is the gover-_ nxnent's right, that some say a mortgage tax relief is a 'handout,' " le says. "Imagine - allowÎng people to keep their own money is a handout. " Posma said t.hat gover- nment should have a limited role and equally limited power. IGovernments should have a limited role. If they don't, they soon have Sc~c*4e y unlimited power. With that power will corne economie stagnation and abuse of power.1fdea "If Canadian era pollUecs continues ln its present course, ouI! country wii have the efficiency of the Post Office, the style of the Canadian Broadcastilg Company and the hunianity of the Tax Departmeflt," Posma says. (Qv 723-1771 Whftby Mal lldoeo&Huy 2 open 10 a.m.- 10 p.. Mon. suit* I I Roy MuacCauley's 7 Peice Diningroom Sut nLgtOak.*$1464.o Buffet, Hutch, Oval Table, 3 Side SALE $440 Chairs, 1 AnnComir. OId Seuts. $1085o COMPLUEI Can Backs, Ç<tcdeAt4" Sat<4~ 3091Brock St. S. WhIlby Shopping Plaza Estabilshod 1952 WHITBY 668m2081 "OUR AIM US TO SATISFY" - N Dunl- I Stock Reduction Sale Ail Winter Fashions and SelecWeDruess ½!/ PRICE This Week Until Sats Feb. l6th STEVEN F. PELESHOK, B.A., LL.B. BARRISTER & SOLICITOR 105 DUND0AS ST.W. 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