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Liberal budget hits seniors in the.pocketbook h, Paul Martin TV Budget AShowtime amidst the after noon soaps. Did you catch the video hype? Giggling bonâ€" homie on the Gov‘t. benches? CBC‘s coiffured celebrities embroidering the Finance Minister‘s ad agency charts with bafflegabian punditry. Unmasked for us later, I thought, by the anonymous daily rewrite newsâ€" desker‘s twoâ€"liner: "Average Canadians were left relatively unscathed by the budget, Which Saved Its Biggest Jolt For Seniors." It‘s become a habit of politiâ€" cians, this nipping away at us fixed incomers. Federal or provincial, you name it. Do they claim immuâ€" nity from aging? This time, Messrs. Martin Co.‘s latest seniors‘ benefits clawâ€" back invention offers teasing math. Numbers crunching neatly scrubbed from last week‘s script. How many man hours of costly bureaucratic headâ€"scratching, we wonder, inputted ingenious price tags of such exactitude? If our fixed income exceeds $25,921 (800,000 of us, they allege) we‘ll lose all, or part, of our tax credit for 65â€"yearâ€"olds. Should our loot soar above $49,124 (they blame 200,000 of us for this) their Hoover will suck back all of the credit. Take A Bite Out Of Your Heating Costs! Convert To Natural Gas and Save Offer Ends March 4, 1994. Call Today! 335â€"7310 Union Gas But, not to carp. Certainly, not by us who‘ve outlived other outraâ€" geous slings and arrows and arrow of fortune. Starved in The Great Depression. Shot at in The War to End All Wars. And now marvel at Show Biz Gov‘t. with its spiffy videos meant to softâ€"soap us oldâ€" sters about more tax grabs. We‘ll adapt. But not forget! Nor did fancy wrapping his 1994 clawback in makeâ€"shift Churchillian rhetoric win Martin our grayâ€"haired okay nods. There‘s a Canadian "faultline", he declaimed, "when the poor get poorer and the rich richer. Fixing these faultlines is this governâ€" ment‘s commitment." We seniors know one fault line that needs fixing. Our fixed incomes versus this country‘s incredible overlay of multiâ€"governâ€" mental redundant extravagances. Who can deny this maiden Fed Liberal budget‘s augury for seniors? OECD‘s numbers are on the wall to see: 7.1 Canadians curâ€" ) â€" On The Purchase Of A Highâ€"Efficiency Furnace and Central Airâ€"Conditioning Package. rently at work for everyâ€"one= retiree, reducing by 2000 to a 5.3â€" toâ€"1 ratio. â€"~â€" Given mounting tax resistance, whence pel sion funding relief?â€"For, hk mow ced backs, ak.a. more cla . F f good ds taxes for cashflow, minus the lost votes. Our trick, a task of challenge for seniors‘ lobbyists, will be to shackâ€" le the crowd we elect to the fair play pronunciamentos they lavish on us in their video orgies. We heard Martin say it on Budget Day: "...everybody pays their fair share." Ottawa‘s objecâ€" tive, he pledged, was to reduce taxes through increased revenues. But, he conceded, "we‘re not there yet." And by the looks of it, we seniors are further back than the rest. Can we raise a bit of hell, folks? For fair play? Sarve 15%0 Head to the Bay this Tuesday, March 1st and take advantage of the Bay‘s 65 Plus Day! A great opportunity to save an extra 15% off* almost every purchase! The Bay offers 15%* savings on regular, sale and clearance merchandise, as well as a discount in the Beauty Salon, Bay Optical and Portrait Studio! Just bring in proof of your age (Senior Citizen‘s card, driver‘s license, birth certificate, etc.) and start saving! * Check the list of exemptions posted in your local Bay store. Oakville Place <YOUR BETT R PRIC ADVANTAG E Tuesday, ‘THE BAY TAX FINANCIAL CONSULTING March You could have your refund directly from Revenue Canada in as little as 10 days using EFILE and Direct Deposit. DIVERSIFIED TAX HAS BEEN APPROVED BY REVENUE CANADA FOR 2441 LAKESHORE RD., OAKVILLE (Bronte Village Mail) Diversified Investments Group Would you like your tax return processed in 10 days? Of course, we also do regular paper returns for the years 1986 through 1993 Our office is open to serve you year round. Drop in to our office or call for details. at the Dubsons Bay Company Mon.â€"Fri. 9:30 a.m.â€"9:00 p.m. Sat. 9:30 a.m.â€"6:00 p.m. _ Sun. 12 Noonâ€"5 p.m. Bay