Re: MSRP Differences Canada v. USA


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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:12:18 GMT, "Dave" <dspear99ca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


OK, try these on :

Canada has several things going for it :

A ) The economic advantages of being America's neighbor -
without the USA, Canada's economy would be a FRACTION of what it is
now, as would the standard of living.

One thing that most Americans don't realize is that Canada and the US are
EACH OTHER'S largest trading partners, it's a two-way street. The US
exports more to Canada than any other country. If all those illiterates in
Canada stopped buying, the US economy would be fucked. Fact.


B ) The military advantages of being America's neighbor -
Candana has NO threat of being attacked by any country, period. Why ?
The world knows 'An attack on Canada = an attack on America', and
would be repsonded to not by Canada's military, but by America's, with
the predictable devastating result for the attacker.


No doubt about that. However, the only reason Canada would possibly be
attacked would be for supporting that "illiterate" in the White House right
now. Can you think of any other reasons?

C ) Canada has the social advantage of being America's
neighbor, learning culture, class, and style from us, as well as the
English language. Without America as a paternalistic big brother,
Canadians would all be French-talking frog-eating moose-chasing
tuque-wearing eh?-saying piss-for-beer-drinking illiterates.


Ok, so your true colors are showing. It's people like you that give
Americans a bad name. As an American, I'm embarrassed to read that ***
knowing that it's on the internet as a nice example to highlight why a large
and growing proportion of the world's population resents the US and it's
***-you-if-you-don't-like-it or even worse, submit-or-we'll-invade-you
approach to world peace.

D ) Canadian tax rates are INSANE - up to 29 % Federal, which
kicks in at $ 120,000 / year, plus as much as 17 % on everything over
$ 59,000 'Provincial tax' , for a combined rate of 46 %. Even the
lower brackets add up easily to 35 + %. And salaries are MUCH lower
in many fields, too.
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/taxrates-e.html

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/eas-aes.nsf/vwapj/op22e.pdf/$FILE/op22e.pdf


Canadian tax rates are insane only when you use US tax rates as a yardstick.
I don't think you'll find many Canadians who wouldn't like lower taxes. You
want to talk about INSANE, let's look at the long-term big picture. Each
year since 1969 the US Federal government has spent more than it has taken
in. To date it has BORROWED more than 8 trillion dollars. Last year your
duly-elected government spent $406 BILLION dollars servicing that debt.
That's roughly 7 times more than was spent on education ($61 billion). The
reason your standard of living is high NOW (remember that word, "NOW") is
that the government has been borrowing money to artificially prop up the US
economy for almost 40 years. THAT is one definition of INSANE. 40 years is
a long time, but one day that bill will come due.

Here's an example: You pay $3 a gallon for gas, while the rest of the world
pays roughly double that. The difference in price is, by and large, taxes.
The rest of the world uses those taxes to build and maintain road
infrastructure. Not the US... they just borrow some more! Whee! Why use
our own money when we can just borrow somebody elses? What a great model
for an economy!

One day the *** will hit the fan... might not be in your lifetime. So, do
you say "Screw future generations, I got mine right now"? My point is that
it's not SUSTAINABLE.

Page 16

"U.S.-Canada Standard of Living Comparison
When U.S. real GDP per capita is expressed in Canadian currency, using
the 1992 PPP, the U.S. standard of living is, on average, 22 percent
higher than that of Canada.9 This aggregate number conceals, however,
a few important facts. First, Figure 3 shows that all U.S. regions
post a standard of living well above the Canadian average. Second, the
gap with respect to the highest income region, New England, reaches up
to 40 percent. Third, the lowest U.S. region, the Southeast, has a
standard of living still 10 percent above the Canadian average."


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See above. The higher standard of living isn't due to anything you did,
it's the fact that the rest of the world is scared shitless of upsetting the
world economy by not lending to the US. Without that borrowed money your
standard of living might not be quite so high. It's like saying "I'm rich
because I can borrow money". Technically you have the money, BUT IT'S NOT
YOURS.

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