Re: “Income splitting not likely to affect jobs,” letter, March 19.
The letter-writer suggesting no advantage to a woman quitting her job and giving up $20,000 per year should reconsider for a couple of reasons.
First, input child care ($1,000 to $1,500 a month for two children, gas or bus rates, food supplies, and personal time lost). Second, my wife and I are living on two pensions. My pension is the greater of the two, so she being able to assume some of my earning power allows us to live more comfortably.
Let’s just keep this local and understand that Victoria has been called the land of the newly wed or nearly dead since I arrived here 40 years ago. The two points I have given pretty much sum up the income-splitting debate. A win-win situation. And that job will still be available to someone if the need arises.
Bill Earl
Victoria
