Dear Editor,
GRA I believe, announced that senior citizens will no longer pay the $4000 tax to travel, instead they will only pay $1500 in airport security tax. Seniors also won’t have to pay for a driver’s licence.
While I appreciate that government has taken certain considerations that concern the overall welfare of our senior citizens I still wonder how these measures would change the overall welfare of our senior citizens. The reality, I feel, is that seniors who own and drive a car can most likely afford the licence fee, the seniors who can get on a plane, same thing.
It seems as if we’re helping those who (and I stand corrected) can most likely help themselves and those seniors who need it the most, are still left in the dust.
Is there a way we can compute the cost to government of these two changes and share the pot with all senior citizens?
Perhaps revisit the water and electrical subsidies, give them a free pass on government transportation services i.e. ferries.
Yours faithfully,
Ann Geer