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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <DPednT93UbWIXDPUnZ2dnUVZ_qfinZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 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!

I never spent more than 3 days there at a time.  As opposed to 6-7 months
the snowbirds spend down here.

> 
> 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, 

So do Americans.

>                  the rooms they sleep in, 

So do Americans.

>                                            rental cars they drive, 

So do Americans.

>                                                                     etc, 
> etc.  

So do Americans.  until you get to the part about income taxes.  Americans
pay them but Canadians who often spend more than 50% of their time here don't.

>       For the most part they don't send their children to public schools 
> here!  

Neither do I.  But I pay both local, state and federal taxes.

>       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!

And US citizens have no obligation to provide all of the usual services
to foreigners who choose to spend a majority of their time in the US 
without paying their fair share of cost of those services.  Maybe we
should do like some (most? all?) states do to people like professional
athletes and track how long they spend here and make them pay income
taxes for that period of time.

billAnd US citizens have no obligation to provide all of the usual services
to foreigners who choose to spend a majority of their time in the US 
without paying their fair share of cost of those services.  Maybe we
should do like some (most? all?) states do to people like professional
athletes and track how long they spend here and make them pay income
taxes for that period of time.

bill

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