Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utcs!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Buy Local. Message-ID: <765@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 22:36:11 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.765 Posted: Thu Aug 22 22:36:11 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Aug-85 22:47:49 EDT References: <5770@utzoo.UUCP> <16066@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto Lines: 40 Summary: US citizens like our medicare too In article <1334@utcsri.UUCP> peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) writes: >As another example of things being cheaper in Canada... it rarely makes sense >to buy books, particularly paperbacks, in the U.S. unless it's a question of >not being able to find them in Canada. If you look at paperbacks, you will >see two prices: one for the US, one for Canada. I have never seen any Cdn >price > 1.35*US price, not even close. > >In fact, a month or so ago, the front page of the Globe and Mail contained >a short story reporting that over the past decade, Canadian income kept >pace (even did better than) the cost of living, while the opposite was true >in the U.S. > >While we're comparing, Canada spends less of its GNP on health care, yet has >universal medicare-- i.e. no-one being tossed out of a hospital because they >couldn't get health insurance such as happens in the U.S. > >This really is a pretty decent place to live. > >p. rowley, U. Toronto I was talking to my aunt from BC a couple of weeks ago and apparently US citizens, particularly with health problems lik to retire in BC because the can use Canadian medicare after having lived here for a year. Our cost of living might be supplementing US cost of living a bit. Actually, if Mulroney's government manages to lower Canadian taxes, I've wondered if we might end up with *more* tax revenue. Although 'tax siphoning' is illegal, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it's still fairly wide spread among multinationals. If taxes here are dropped below US taxes, many multinationals may start to reverse their 'tax siphoning' practices. Mulroney could hold up the figure as evidence of greater Canadian 'Productivity' and 'strenghthened industry'--at least until the US brings down the hammer on the multinationals and forces them to pay their US taxes instead of ours 'or else'. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura