From From Page 1 1 ROAD NEGLECT erder to get to the nearest hospital, says a report read te Terrace District Council by Alired Fraser Monday for the Nisbga- Tribal Council. pavement of the East. Kalum | onward to New Alyansh and Greenville at this time when there is some commitment to building a bridge near Greenville; and a 30-mile read pushed through to Kineolith from Greenville so that that community is inked by road tp other areas in the region. 2 “it is not convenient for our shoppers and visitors to Terrace; for tourists; and for our sick to go to hospital. We want to stress that over , government insurance registering our vebicles. and in getting license plates. We pay pracline taxes, We pay ‘provincial sales taxes, not to mmenion income taxes,” says vinout people have already paid for decent roads with thousands of dollars of _ timber resources which are trucked -out of the valley daily,” Fraser said; and local Terrace residents have Bf benefited by the jobs created in the logging industry north of the community. . “Now. there. is aome commitment that Amax of Canada Limited will, soon begin to multiply those profits, taxes and other business revenues, if its molybdenum mining proposal at Kitsault goes ahead. We note the tremendous cost to our people, especially those at Kincolith and Greenville, whose source of food will be. destroyed. In addition to the J iaxes we pay the Nishgas have contributed heavily to government revenues through the resources from § am rich valley which we have shared,” says Fraser. ‘Terrace is the service centre for, all thé com- but ‘without pavement communitics at Kitsault will consider alternatives like Seinithers for wervicing. In addition to the service industries pavement through the Nass will open a wave of new Dusiness opportunities in tourism and recreation, in mining and related industry, In logging and timber . operations to the sstute business leaders stationed in Terrace, | says Fraser. Before long the regions) planners will begin to focus on. centres like Houston and Smithers, Kitimat and Prisee Rupert as more 80 Ottawa raise gasoline prices, the provincial tax will go up ia - correspondingly. ‘Cars also will cost more to buy because of the two-per- . cent sales tax increase. That's $200 more on a $10,000 Smoker? You'll pay 10 cents more for a pack of 25, - which will cost about $1.35 in - ‘machines, somewhat less in stores, depending © on location. And, the smokers’ tax will be allowed to rise _ with the rate of inflation. Drinker? Booze will cost you more, but how much is unknown. The promised to raise an extra $28 million in the next fiscal year by. marking up liquor - prices, This could mean 10 , Per cent on most alcohol That would work out to: roughly -7i cents more on 12 beer and $1'0n an average ‘fifth of Scotch. Fraser. says that’: the: of the present logging road is . well known: to those who have travelled that route,’ Two vehicles cannot pass each other always on the: roads. The 20 bridges over various small creeks without. exception. are not wide enough to allow two vehicles to pass. Terrace District Council will support the Nishga — Tribal Council in the budget — tt you earn better-than- average money, you'll pay tax will be hit with a 10-per- cent surtax. You'd hive to earn well into the ‘$30,-000-a-- year range to be affected by Tt will also cost you more ‘to book into a hotel or motel. The provincial tax on rooms costing more than $10 a night but lees than $50 rises to six . That's roughly one to five rises to eight from five per- cent. The tax on an $80 room, for instance, will le $6.40 instead of #4. All this is not really a | ahock to those whe dwell in the mountains by the sea. Thelr government has’ tapped their pocketbooks “more than once in the leat 10 months. |... Auto insuraince rates,. set _ by the! .Crown-owned In- “surance Corp. of B.C. . are up am average 38 per cent cent ‘this ‘year: Most motorists . pay more than $400 a year ‘for full coverage. Ferry rates increased anywhere from 25 cents to fr for. vehicks travelling on governmentowned B.C. ferries. It now costs $29 : return for a'car anda driver Fea CEH Sete Sh forthe Vancouver to Vietoria ferry. : have . ; Add all this to the fact that “British Columbia is one of the most expensive provinces in which to live. Housing prices, for example, increased 47 per cent during - 1980, say real estate firms. Figures supplied by these - firms and their associations indicate that-itis impossible _ ' to find a liveable home in the vancouver-area for less than $100,000. oo Total VICTORIA (CP) — How COLLECTING AND SPENDING — government will spend and ' pompared with its 1980-81 ‘the British Columbia callect. its, 1981-42 budget budget estimates: ESTIMATED. Ex. . oo ESTIMATED: REVENUE 182” ape8-81 Legisiation ; 1981-2 1900-81. ** Dersonsl income tax 1,579,000,000 _1,961,000,000 Auditor-G 1 7,100,008 6,200,000 Corporation income, ; Premier's office __1,500,000 "1,100,000 Sales, fuel taxes 1,733,000,000 1,041,800,000 Aariculttire, Food eens on ogg’ Pruperty taxes 30,000,000 25,000,000. - : General: 73,200,000 65,800,000 Other . 21,000,000 19 900,000. Attorney 267,200,000 240,300,000, Consumer, Corporate Al- 14,000,000 16,002.00 . “Rlesearee sevens: | Education 1,172,400,000 ” 1,085,200,000 Petroleum, natural gas ppceapieg 447,000,000 Energy, Mines, Resources 30,900,000 18,000,000, ae 2m 00 000 presenodson Envirooment 81,100,000 74,100,000 fe other €5,000 000 40,000 Finance. $2,000,000, 104,500,000 1 weber, 35,000, _ 48,500,000 Forests 162,600,000 . 153,300,000 _— Health 1,975,100,000_1,718,600,000 “Salen, penvee foes 90,400,000 «85,500,000 Human ale, 89,100,000 753,000,000 Tienes, permits 142,000,000. 128,000,000 Industry, Small Business 147,100,000 52,000,000 Fines ‘penalties 18,000,000 15,000,000 Intergovernmental * 2,600,000 1,800,000 Interest 97,000,000 1 00.000 65,100,000 55,700,000 aa , 000, Labor 72,500,000 €5,100,000 Miscellaneous 64,000,000 40,000,000 Lands, F arks, Housing 330,200,000 326,600,000 z - ee , , Provincial Secretary 14,200,000 12,000,000 other goveruments: -_ ,tighwaya ———ssanoooag2un00 SUES 1,178,900,000 _1,061,600,000 Universities, Science, . 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