Regarding the article “Mining executives among best paid” (T.N.M., April 15/91), it is stated that sundry mining executives “took home” various substantial rewards.
Are we to understand that these sums are what they received after tax? By common usage, “take-home pay” refers to real income, after tax and as actually received. It is in contrast to the nominal income upon which we all had to perform abstruse calculations by the April 30 deadline, but of which a substantial fraction has “gone home” only to Ottawa.
The Northern Miner is too good to let it be spoiled by a sloppy phraseology more typical of the less responsible sports columns.
Hugh Taylor
North Vancouver, B.C.
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