[Info-vax] Anyone in the DC area interested in an Integrity?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <49aea626$1 at flight>,
> 	Malcolm Dunnett <nothome at spammers.are.scum> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> In article <003b48b6$0$28476$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>>> 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>>> fredrik.nyman at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Anyone in the DC area interested in buying one of the Integrity
>>>> Very few politicians in Washington are interested in integrity :-)
>>> I don't know, about the same percentage as in Ottawa.
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>>    That's what he said: very few :-)
> 
> Yes, but in his usual fashion he was apparently trying to intimate that
> this is not the case on his side of the border.  He is, of course, wrong
> as usual.
> 
> 
> As an interesting side note, if things are so good in Canada and so bad
> down here why does half of Canada's population spend half the year down
> here?  Am I the only one in this country who thinks there is just as
> much a need to control the northern border as the southern one to stop
> all those freeloaders from using our resources while paying no taxes
> at all?
> 

Well, there are issues of medical treatment; in Canada you may have to 
wait years for "elective" surgery.  In the U.S. all you have to do is 
find a willing surgeon, a hospital with the necessary facilities, and 
pay the bills.  OTOH medical care in Canada is "free" if you can afford 
to wait for it!

There are also issues of climate.  We have about an inch of snow on the 
ground here in New Jersey.  I suspect that most of Canada is measuring 
snow-fall in feet rather than inches.  The snow here may last for 
another two or three days.  Canada?  Weeks or months!

As far as taxes are concerned, they pay sales, use, and "occupancy" 
taxes pretty much the same as we do.  If they  don't earn a pay check 
here, they pay no income tax here.  If you visit Canada in the summer, 
you won't pay Canadian income taxes but you will pay sales taxes and 
maybe "occupancy" taxes on your hotel/motel bill.