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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <9034ff22-4e10-4f7b-a141-0f1143246af3 at q11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
> 	sapienzaf <sapienza at noesys.com> writes:
>> On Mar 4, 11:18 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>> 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?
>> Snowbirds?  It works for folks from the northeast that winter in
>> Florida, so maybe the Canadians that usually experience -30c
>> temperatures like to visit the northeast where it's only 0c.
>> :-)
> 
> People from the northeast who winter in Florida still pay their
> fair share of taxes to the US to cover the resources they utilize.
> Canadians, some of whom spend more time down here than up there pay
> no taxes in the US.  They pay their taxes to Revenue Canada who does
> not ship the percentage ofr their time down here to Washington.  A
> leech is a leech wether he travels north to get here ot south.

Did you pay Canadian taxes while visiting there in the summer?  Sales 
taxes, yes!  Income taxes on income earned in the U.S?  I doubt it very 
much!

Further, the Canadians support a good part of the tourist industry in 
the U.S.  That's money in our pockets.  They pay sales taxes on the 
meals they eat, the rooms they sleep in, rental cars they drive, etc, 
etc.  For the most part they don't send their children to public schools 
here!  If they did, as non-residents they could be required to make a 
payment "in lieu of taxes"; the local school board has no obligation to 
educate the children of non-residents gratis!