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PAGE 12e WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17,1l982, WHITBY FREE PRESS Sp"eaking to You By SCOTT FENNELL, M.P. I.A.J(PC -Ontario) For a long time I've advocated lower taxes on businesses, and now that the country is seeing the jobless effect of Ottawa's anti-business policies, more people are taking this vlew.' But there are sWI too many people who choose to forget that wlthout profits and money to invest, i- dustry cannot create jobs. The. factor that more than any other bas contributed'to this fall's unem- ployment was the 53 per cent decline in business profits in the spring. T y 571-2206 CRAFTS INC. o WOOD PICTURE, FRAMES 4" x 5" & l"lx 14" ½/2price now only $2 to $10 74 King St. W. Oshawa Yet the Liberal-soclalist coalition in this country icalling for more taxes on corporations. NDP Leader Ed Broadbe nt's voice has been the loudest. I think such demands are the height of hypocrisy. Politicians who say cut taxes for the little guy and raise taxes on businesses are just trying to get votes by investing scapegoats. So 'they say make businesses suffer. Conservative coluninist George Will bas summed up the situation concisely: "Cororations don't pay taxes'. Corporations colleet taxes." Every increase in -a, businessmnan's taxes are passed straight on to bis consumers in the form of higher prices. Businessmen mustdo this to survive. Two-thirds of the price of a 'litre of gas goes straight to government.- Probably one-third of a typical restaurant meal -goes straight to govern- ment. The quickest way to make the coming bard winter. tougher on the littie guy would be to increase cor- poratetaxes. Its just a complicated sheil game that makes the lower and middle income workers pay more. [n reased Tbene-fits will hurt small f frm s By W. ROGER WORTH Syntîlcated Columnist For Canada's already bard-pressed smaller firms, Ottawa's decision to increase unemploy- ment insurance pre- miums by about 40 per cent carnies flot only a direct cost, but rnay af- fect' the perennially positive attitude 0f the entrepreneurs wbo are 80 important in the job creation process. At a time when more tban 1.5 million Cana- dians are unemployeci, this is bad news indeed. .The simrple question is asked: wiil small comn- panles lay off workers because employers have to pay as much as $4 per week more for each employee they have on staff? 'As in ail tbings sim- plistie, the simple an- swer is no. Yet there is a very real disincentive to ,addstaff', and it's that much easier to justify layoffs. Mostly lt's a matter-of attitude.- Whitby man char'ged n drug bust A Wbitby man bas been committed to trial in connection- with a $500,000 cocaine bust made by Durhami Re- gional Police and RCMP in August. Terrance James Hal- lett, 39, of Lot 30, Con- cession 4 in Whitby, wilI stand trial in Supreme Court on.charges of traf- Ireh ficking and impoi narcotics. Osbawa RCMP the arrest of four was made August 1982 after* underc, police officers armai a cocaine deal In Sai Ontario. The undercover0 ers contacted two C, dian men, whoarrar ANNOUNCEMENT: RECEPTION CAR INVITATIONS THANK YOU CAR TM announces its GRAND OPENING <on Saturday, November 20, 1982. Join the Mayor at 11:00 for the of ficiai openIng. *GRAND OPENINOG SPECIALS 10 Kt. 7" Serp. Braclet from 8',99 10 Kt. Initial Pendant f rom 8.99 10OKt. Zodiacs from 9.a99 10 Kt3 mm, 4mm, 6mm HoIlow Rope Chains f rom 49.99 Ladies 14 Kt. diamond & blue sapphire dinner ring (0.20 ct total diamond welght .60 ct Blue sapphire) SfwyPlaza Hours Brock St. S. Thur.-Fri. 10-9 Thrs-Fi.109666m321 0 Whltby Sat. 10-6 rting a deal, to import pure S 1cocaine from two Michi- say gan men, RCMP offi- men cials say. ýt 13e When the transaction cover finally took place i a inged Sarnia Hotel, ail four mria', men were arrested. RCMP officiais.say the offic- cocaine was .98 per cent ana- pure, and valued -at ýnged $500,000. -Since the bust took qs place, one of the Ameri- Scan men bas- pleaded LDS guilty to conspiracy to tDS traffic narcotics.- He was sentenced Nov, il1 in- a Sarnia_ Supreme Court to 5 years in pri- son and fined $10,000. A trial date for the remaining three men has not been set. Hailett bas been charged witb con- spiracy to tmaffic nar. cotics, conspiracy to mni- port narcotics, traffick- ing in- a narcotie, *and importing a narcotic. In-basket size peripheral - occupies only one square foot of space on your desk. Powered to perfori - gives you 540K bytes'of formatted storage with the dual drive. 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But'itis the attitudes of entrepreneurs, mana- gers and proprietors of smaller firms that reaily count. If, 'as has been forecast, the economy. turns around, it is- these people wbo will create the jobs. we s0 badly need.' Only a year ago, for example, the 'smaller companies, were stil creating jobs, even while the multinationals and major companies were, pruning the ené i - ployment rosters. The sanie thing May happen if the economy reverses. A surpnisingly résilient smalll business commumity wil be frt to take advantage of the situations, creating jobs as they expand their operation' s. What's important is that the positive attitude that exists among this group of risk-taking en- trereneur is not-stif- led "There sho question the unemploymùent in-. s urance rate increa se, bas deflated, a lot of tbe enthusiasm that exist- ed,,and probably cost us a lot of jobs. _ Perhaps it's time the bureaucrats in the na- tion's capital started'to u nderstand' that atti- tudes matter. 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