Editor:
When the kings ruled there were new taxes with every new king. Just like our governments today, HST did stay in some provinces. When our pensioners went to war and lived through the Depression to get this country up and running again, they needed to get their share of the POT (pension overtime tax) to keep pensions increasing.
POT is for a rise in pensioners who live in health care facilities and have nothing else, while the pension gets no increase and they get moved out of their little places to have no money.
POT is to help build for 65 and older, where we need to get seniors a raise and get money for the upcoming baby boomers who will land there now.
POT is to tax anyone collecting a payroll check and collecting pension money. They would put $5 in the POT with every paycheque. Also, we need more money from those who get overtime cheques, since a lot of tax is collected and they get little back later. This would get companies to pay $5 in the POT for every overtime shift.
Well now there could be help in the pension funds when we put salary caps on these government pensions that don’t make sense, as they get two or three times the cost of living a year for being an ex-worker who already made years of a good living. We all hope for pension funds to help the poor, not to make the kings rich.
P.S. Next letter I write will be on welfare waste.
Dave Osborn
Williams Lake