Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utecfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!uthub!utecfa!thompsm From: thompsm@utecfa.UUCP (Mark Thompson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: re: First Chance Program and other Ramblings Message-ID: <157@utecfa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 12:03:37 EDT Article-I.D.: utecfa.157 Posted: Tue Aug 14 12:03:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 20:40:45 EDT Organization: Engineering, University of Toronto Lines: 40 C'mon Jim you don't expect the government to introduce a flat tax rate. That could lead to a simplified tax system which could end up costing thousands of Canadians their "jobs". Fairness, sensibility and simplicity are certainly not goals strived for by Revenue Canada. Why do you think that when you donate money to help starving children you only get a tax DEDUCTION while when you donate to a truly needy political party you get a tax CREDIT? The best you can do is to try and take advantage of everyone deduction available and get back as large a refund as possible. No point in donating extra money to an already bloated governMENTAL system. ________________________________________________________________________________ I wonder what the upcoming debate on women's issues will be like. Quite frankly the whole idea is ridiculous anyway. Most issues including those that are likely to be debated this week concern both sexes not just one. They certainly didn't call the first two debates Men's issues. I hope we don't hear too much garbage regarding this notion of equal pay for work of equal value. The idea (which by the way is not simply a women's issue) is unsound simply because of the problem of defining work of equal value. I certainly support the ideas of equal pay for the same job and equal opportunity (no affirmative action please) but to say we should necessarily pay a secretary the same as a truck driver (just an example) makes no sense. Employees are paid what the marketplace commands (except for some government workers - ie. post office). You can just imagine what it would be like if for example everyone asked for the same pay as a postal worker and it would certainly be justified under the precept of equal pay for work of equal value. If women are concerned that on the average their pay is only 60% of a man's then they need to direct their efforts into getting women to enter fields previously thought to be almost exclusively male. I recall fairly recent news concerning the fact that a many female high school students fail to maintain their science and math studies through to their last year of high school. This in turn automatically deprives them of something like 75% of available careers(many of which are traditional high paying ones). Hopefully it is here that the effort will be made to try to bridge the income gap between the sexes. I may add that the number of female students entering the Engineering Faculty at U. of T. seems to be increasing considerably.