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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe  When I read these types of complaints from canadians, it makes me wonder about perspective. what if we taxed all chinese tourists and put the money into making our transportation infrastructure (primarily streets and highways) more efficient? would you argue against a $5 fee from all chinese tourists if it meant that you could get to places faster and experience less traffic congestion? |
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?
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Originally Posted by StylinRed |
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.
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Originally Posted by dual 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. |
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?
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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe i dont care if you're impressed, but i feel like a god in this thread. |
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.
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just look at what's happening: people get thanked for stupid videos, strategic economic policies labeled as dick moves and bullying, selective reading which supports emotional reactions, points assigned for slightly mean posts directed at mods. nobody's trying to discern the logic behind a decision that a panel of experts constructed, yet the people that do (myself) are being told they're not worthy of a discussion.
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You are not worthy of a discussion.
Some of the points you're making are.
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