REVscene - Vancouver Automotive Forum


Welcome to the REVscene Automotive Forum forums.

Registration is Free!You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.


Go Back   REVscene Automotive Forum > Automotive Chat > Vancouver Off-Topic / Current Events

Vancouver Off-Topic / Current Events The off-topic forum for Vancouver, funnies, non-auto centered discussions, WORK SAFE. While the rules are more relaxed here, there are still rules. Please refer to sticky thread in this forum.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 02-18-2011, 04:43 PM   #51
SFICC-03*
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: richmond
Posts: 8,911
Thanked 3,560 Times in 1,397 Posts
Failed 164 Times in 85 Posts
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.
Advertisement
unit is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-18-2011, 05:14 PM   #52
MG1
Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 25,203
Thanked 11,832 Times in 5,078 Posts
Failed 317 Times in 203 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by freakshow View Post
Hey BNR.. I got this breast pump for sale..
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.
__________________
Quote:
"there but for the grace of god go I"
Quote:
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
YODO = You Only Die Once.

Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.

"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
MG1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-18-2011, 09:45 PM   #53
What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 158
Thanked 17 Times in 5 Posts
Failed 16 Times in 2 Posts
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.
dual is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-18-2011, 09:58 PM   #54
I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
 
StylinRed's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: CELICAland
Posts: 25,679
Thanked 10,395 Times in 3,918 Posts
Failed 1,390 Times in 625 Posts
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

Quote:
OTTAWA — Even as the prime minister criticized a proposed U.S. head-tax on Canadian air travellers, some cash-strapped American politicians are pushing for a levy on Canadian imports to pay for U.S. road works.

A bill recently introduced in Congress calls for a "freight fee" on international trade goods that could, if approved, cost Canadian and U.S. importers and exporters an estimated $420 million a year over 10 years.

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/busines...#ixzz1ENyi5ezU
StylinRed is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-19-2011, 02:37 AM   #55
Rs has made me the woman i am today!
 
Mr.Money's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Vancouver DT
Posts: 4,322
Thanked 2,797 Times in 916 Posts
Failed 1,257 Times in 270 Posts
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.

Last edited by Mr.Money; 02-19-2011 at 02:43 AM.
Mr.Money is offline   Reply With Quote
This post FAILED by:
Old 02-19-2011, 03:46 AM   #56
I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
 
tegz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: bby
Posts: 1,514
Thanked 596 Times in 107 Posts
Failed 93 Times in 26 Posts
jewbama
tegz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-19-2011, 07:01 AM   #57
I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
 
Soundy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Abbotstan
Posts: 20,721
Thanked 12,136 Times in 3,361 Posts
Failed 1,848 Times in 413 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe View Post
Basically, america is like a nightclub, and if youre from north america, you don't have to pay cover. if youre from anywhere else, covers $5.50.

......

that is the reason why obama is cutting the slack for canadians. we had a privilege, now he's taking it away.
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.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Godzira View Post
Does anyone know how many to a signature?
..
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brianrietta View Post
Not a sebberry post goes by where I don't frown and think to myself "so..?"
Soundy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-19-2011, 08:41 AM   #58
The Lone Wanderator
 
Graeme S's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Burnaby
Posts: 12,091
Thanked 4,385 Times in 1,138 Posts
Failed 192 Times in 75 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe View Post
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?

Quote:
Originally Posted by StylinRed View Post
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
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.

Quote:
Originally Posted by dual View Post
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?

Quote:
Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe View Post
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.

Quote:
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.
You are not worthy of a discussion.

Some of the points you're making are.
Graeme S is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 02:33 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
SEO by vBSEO ©2011, Crawlability, Inc.
Revscene.net cannot be held accountable for the actions of its members nor does the opinions of the members represent that of Revscene.net