lol obama. what a joke. they definitely need ron paul for president in 2012, then they can focus on generating revenue by savings not small peanuts like this.

Oh shit, I remember that thread......... sort of .............. link again, please, just for giggles.

Oh, nevermind. I found it and it's not pretty. Sorry, BNR, I remember defending you once, long ago in yet another post. I felt you were being ridiculed unfairly. My bad.

At least you're not like Bradford. You're a good sport.

What pisses me off the most is Canada isn't doing anything about it. The Canadian government is too scared to do anything against the US.

CTV news commercial, Freight Tax for entering the US too? oO wtf "to pay for roads"

here's an article

http://www.vancouversun.com/business...122/story.html

i just took note,obama doesn't give a fuck that Canadian soldiers are helping in the war or normal everyday canadian's so he goe's and start's taxing us just to visit & step on their soil,yet alone we spent a shit load of money over there for item's and food..

already fuckin it up,Get your Greedy Black Ass out the office,ya black George bush.
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jewbama

Actually, cover for everywhere is is MORE than $5.50 - as TRDood pointed out, it's $10 for UK visitors... other places may be more or less.

So no, they're not "taking away" the privilege... they're just reducing it; we still get a rate. And it's not JUST Canadians - the same applies to Mexico and the Caribbean.

If we were taxing all others and simply had an exemption for Chinese citizens, no, I probably wouldn't argue against it. But then, the situations are completely different.

Canadians travel to the US because it's often closer to go down south than it is to go across Canada.

Canadians travel to the US because it's often cheaper to buy goods that are also available here even when accounting for travel costs when spending less than a full paycheque's worth.

Canadians have had a history of working to open the border with the US in order to work up both economies; the Americans are less enthusiastic about it now because they no longer have the dollar-value advantage, and so Canadian labour is the same or even more than American Labour.


These things are all Canadian advantages, not American, so what reason would the US have to keep the exemption in place? And how many of those are true for China and Canada?

The article says it's estimated to bring in $400 million over the next 10 years, yet it also says that based on the $1.2b in daily bilateral trade, it'd add about $112 million per day.

Anything that has such wildly ranging numbers seems to me more to be inflammatory rather than informational. Add to that it's the equivalent of a private member's bill, and we face very little threat from it.

Where does it say the Canadian government isn't doing anything about it? Making a giant fuss in public is always counterproductive; most likely there is something going on through diplomatic channels.

And even if there isn't, let's be realistic:
Those who are cheap often already fly out of the US (people flying within the US would not be subject to this tax, since it's a tax for entering the US on a plane)

If you're driving down to Blaine or Point Roberts to pick up shipping or go shopping, you won't get charged anything.

Remember the "Airport Improvement Fee" at YVR? It was more than the $5.50 that the US wants to charge flyers. Did you boycott YVR because of it?

I am not impressed. At all. Much as you accuse others of, you are simply "fanning the flames" and trying to make peoples' opinions become more extreme simply to make them exaggerate their own opinions to make you trumpet your triumph.


Read my posts. They're filled with logic.

You are not worthy of a discussion.

Some of the points you're making are.