acton@mprvaxa.UUCP (01/06/87)
Over the Christmas holidays I came across the following information in
various newspaper reports.
Sunday Shopping:
According to a professor at the University of British Columbia Sunday
shopping in BC has moved into the realm of a leisure time activity.
According to the retail merchants association the introduction of Sunday
shopping has resulted in a 7% increase in sales over what they would have
expected without it. (To me this is what one would expect if the point
made by the professor is correct.)
Day Care:
The costs of a national daycare program comparable in scope to our
medical program would cost taxpayers over 11 billion dollars a year.
(I believe that would imply about a 10% increase in the federal budget.)
This would seem to indicate that even a small national daycare program
would cost at least several billion dollars and that would hardly please
the groups lobbying for it the loudest.
Donald Acton