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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
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 12:03:37 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 20:40:45 EDT
Organization: Engineering, University of Toronto
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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.

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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.