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...more palatable means of recognizing the problem is the suggestion of offering additional aid to those school systems which have integrated, or are in the process. Such a bonus could hardly be considered financial coercion, because it merely accounts for the extra costs in the process of integration...
...week, Harris produced his solution. By eliminating some nuisance taxes and easing the rules on income-tax deductions, he will cut receipts next year by an estimated $55 million. Spending will be increased for such items as old-age pensions and mothers' allowances (Canada's famed "Baby Bonus") to help slim down next year's surplus to $152 million...
Social Crediters freely admitted that the oil bonus is not the citizens' "dividend" promised when their party came to power 22 years ago. That scheme was to be part of a major overhaul of federal monetary policies, and is beyond the power of a provincial government. The payments now planned will help to drain off cash from an oil-enriched treasury that has already cut the province's debt to $90 million, financed large-scale grants to local schools and municipalities, and has built up a $347 million surplus. Some of the bonus money will also...
...bonus scheme brought a protest from some of the people eligible to collect it. The Senior Citizens' Club of Medicine Hat adopted a resolution declaring that the money could better go to widows, the handicapped and pensioners. Art Smith, Conservative member of the provincial legislature, declared: "So long as the infirm suffer financially, so long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan...
...wartime Cabinet, he was clapped into jail by the allied occupation forces on suspicion of being a war criminal, later released without trial. "When I found out I was not to be indicted or hanged," he said, "I began to think about the rest of my life as a bonus to be spent wisely. I decided that Japan must have real democracy and never again adopt dictatorship by anyone-military or non-military-and never yield to extremists-Communists or fascists...