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Yes and absolutely no foreign capital never ever comes into this country /sarcasm

Ever heard of the Trade Deficit? http://www.tradingeconomics.co...

You really have no idea how horribly funny you are. Do you think the Chinese are sitting on a giant pile of dollars ?

Here's our capital account surplus

https://www.fin.gc.ca/budget05...

I eagerly await your reply on how either the lizard men or the underpants gnomes are stealing our capital inflows.

You have a lot of faith in banks. They are supposed to do the same checks here, but it doesn't stop fraudsters.

And that's the difference between our banking systems:

World Economic Forum Rates Canada’s Banking System World’s Soundest for Seventh Year in a Row

The fact that you keep a scary dog speaks volumes too. Clearly you are afraid of something, otherwise you wouldn't risk owning one.

My first Newfie (think black St. Bernard) was given to me as a reward by someone whose dog had been given to me by a veterinarian after they couldn't find it's owner. He was a totally awesome dog. My St. Bernard I got from the SPCA. She was a real honey. My current dog was dumped on my by one of my daughters when he was a puppy, and I had no idea what he'd turn out like. The toddlers in the neighborhood love exchanging kisses on the nose with him. My second newfie I "stole" from a muni pound (with inside help) that was going to put him down the next morning because of a lack of space. So yes, for decades I've had big dogs, but I certainly don't see them as scary in the least. That others might isn't my fault. Toby's behavior, even when other dogs lunge at him or bite him, is exemplary. He just thinks they're playing.

Good luck.

Thank you. Yes, over the last few decades the dogs have helped me deal with PTSD and the resulting anxiety and depression, both from the first murder, and from the sexual assault in the late '90s. And Toby was also a big help when I was almost blind this past winter (I had been practicing letting him lead me because I was worried that I would lose most of my vision again). He's getting old, and once he's gone I'll have to train another dog because my "good retina", despite treatment, is also going.

I think the way that we're all over-reacting to anonymous death threats on the internet is a disgrace when we compare it to the grandmothers in Kiev who stood their ground (and died) under live sniper fire by government forces. We should all be so brave when it comes to standing up for what we believe in.

You are kidding right?

Canada (where i live) has tax treaties in place for a large number of countries, they even publish a list: http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties-...

Earn money in the US, revenue Canada will be looking for you to pay the "top up" tax (the difference between your US taxes and what you would have paid in Canada).

NOTE: this is for individual ratepayers, might be different for corp taxes.

Canada. Googling "canada budget surplus history" turns up several relevant hits, including blogs referencing the surpluses, news stories talking about it, and this page at the Government of Canada website. Surpluses became the norm after Chretien and his finance minister Paul Martin balanced the budget in the 1990's or so, and remained that way until the last Harper government, who went into deficit spending as a response to the recession. And just as an aside, after Chretien did his budget balancing act, most if not all of the provincial governments had to follow suit. Voters simply stopped accepting deficit spending in good economic times.

Really, have you reviewed the budgets? http://www.fin.gc.ca/facts/fshc7_e.html

Since we've had Trudeau as prime minister back in the Reagan years, it has traditionally been liberals screwing our economy and conservatives fixing it.

Mulroney was about as bad as Trudeau during the 80's. And saying that health care "lies in ruin" is a bit overdramatic.

http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties/USA_e.html

Interestingly, the tax treaty rules supersede both Congress and Parliament tax laws, in areas where there's a conflict.

but you really can't once you stop paying taxes to Ottawa

Here's an experiment, to convince you that the myth of the lazy jobless guy is just that -- a myth. Approach someone without a job (preferably one who isn't insane, as so many homeless folks are). Offer them a fulltime job (no benefits necessary) at minimum wage doing something that is within their capabilities. I guarantee that 90% of the welfare / disability recipients you make this offer to will accept your job offer.

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Or on a related issue, find someone that is getting government disability checks for a moderate disability. Hire them. Find out that they are doing a pretty good job. Give them a raise. 6-12 months later, they find out that their $800 a month disability check will be getting cut since they are now making $2000 a month working....So what do they do...You guessed it, they quit their job.

Neither of these are isolated incidents. I have direct knowledge of each event essentially happening tens of times.

Now, this is not the same thing as saying "all people without jobs don't want to work" nor is it saying that "all people on disability checks don't want to get off of disability if they are capable of it.

However, anyone who this that this is not a fairly widespread phenomena is fooling themselves and not making decisions based on reality. As for other points in your bogus post:

For the cost of what Canada spends on helicopters for the miitary, every single jobless person in the entire country could be supported. That's not to say that we shouldn't buy helicopters, it's just putting things in perspective. (Note that I'm just referring to welfare/disability assistance and foreign aid, not something genuinely expensive like healthcare).

This seems pretty bogus as well. First of all, a lot of thay money you spend on helicopters is to pay the salaries of people that build and maintain them. Ignoring that for a moment, looking at the Canadian budget: http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html

Your entire freaking defense budget is 18.3 billion dollars. Lets just make believe that for some reason 10% of that is for helicopters. (1.83 billion).

The most recent data I could find for the number of jobless in Canada was http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html It shows 500,000 getting regular unemployment checks. I assume since you are complaining that someone needs assistence that is not getting it that the "actual" number of people you are worried about is even higher..But for the sake of argument, lets assume that it is just these 500,000 that you want to help.

Gee, we can spend a whopping $3660 on them instead of buying/building/maintaining a single helicopter.

That seems pretty useless, . Of course don't forget that you will need a bunch of workers, facilities, forms, etc to manage this program. Lets be kind and claim the the governement can do this for 10% of the money they are paying out. Wow, that still leaves a little more than $3000 a year we can just give away to people to do...umm..What are they going to do again? Oh that's right, they can be human shields that we throw at the people that invade the country because we have no helicopters.

Here's an experiment, to convince you that the myth of the lazy jobless guy is just that -- a myth. Approach someone without a job (preferably one who isn't insane, as so many homeless folks are). Offer them a fulltime job (no benefits necessary) at minimum wage doing something that is within their capabilities. I guarantee that 90% of the welfare / disability recipients you make this offer to will accept your job offer.

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Or on a related issue, find someone that is getting government disability checks for a moderate disability. Hire them. Find out that they are doing a pretty good job. Give them a raise. 6-12 months later, they find out that their $800 a month disability check will be getting cut since they are now making $2000 a month working....So what do they do...You guessed it, they quit their job.

Neither of these are isolated incidents. I have direct knowledge of each event essentially happening tens of times.

Now, this is not the same thing as saying "all people without jobs don't want to work" nor is it saying that "all people on disability checks don't want to get off of disability if they are capable of it.

However, anyone who this that this is not a fairly widespread phenomena is fooling themselves and not making decisions based on reality. As for other points in your bogus post:

For the cost of what Canada spends on helicopters for the miitary, every single jobless person in the entire country could be supported. That's not to say that we shouldn't buy helicopters, it's just putting things in perspective. (Note that I'm just referring to welfare/disability assistance and foreign aid, not something genuinely expensive like healthcare).

This seems pretty bogus as well. First of all, a lot of thay money you spend on helicopters is to pay the salaries of people that build and maintain them. Ignoring that for a moment, looking at the Canadian budget: http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html

Your entire freaking defense budget is 18.3 billion dollars. Lets just make believe that for some reason 10% of that is for helicopters. (1.83 billion).

The most recent data I could find for the number of jobless in Canada was http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html It shows 500,000 getting regular unemployment checks. I assume since you are complaining that someone needs assistence that is not getting it that the "actual" number of people you are worried about is even higher..But for the sake of argument, lets assume that it is just these 500,000 that you want to help.

Gee, we can spend a whopping $3660 on them instead of buying/building/maintaining a single helicopter.

That seems pretty useless, . Of course don't forget that you will need a bunch of workers, facilities, forms, etc to manage this program. Lets be kind and claim the the governement can do this for 10% of the money they are paying out. Wow, that still leaves a little more than $3000 a year we can just give away to people to do...umm..What are they going to do again? Oh that's right, they can be human shields that we throw at the people that invade the country because we have no helicopters.

IANAA (I am not an accountant) but I'm pretty sure that Canada and the US allow you to deduct the amount of tax paid to the other country from the amount owing. IIRC your country of residence takes priority.

Here's the agreement: http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties/USA_e.html

It starts with "Canada and the United States of America, desiring to conclude a Convention for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and on capital, have agreed as follows:"

It's true -- BC, Alberta, and Ontario are the only provinces that generate more tax revenue than they consume.

Isn't BC off of that list now? Surprisingly (to me anyway), Saskatchewan is very close to becoming a contributer as well, and received less money than BC this year.

Link please? I think you are misremembering how Ms. Copps got caught, which was exactly that, now I know it's hard to tell the two of them apart but Sheila at least speaks one of our official languages.

It was not revenue neutral. There were huge cost overruns in bringing in the GST, on the order of large tens of millions of dollars. Yet even taking the cost overruns into account the GST brought in hundreds of millions of dollars more than "expected" in the first eight months.

IIRC the GST program cost over $2B to implement, but I forget how much of that was cost overruns.

MST revenues in the last full year it was in place (1989-90) were $17.7B, GST in the first full year it was in place (91-22) was $15.3B. See http://www.fin.gc.ca/frt/2004/frt04_2e.html%23Tabl e6

GST needs to be restructured/replaced because VAT's are a bad way to do consumption taxes.

This budget page says the Canadian Federal budget was 192.9 Billion in 2003. The numbers are at the bottom of the page.

I'll hand it to Paul Martin, the debt hasn't decreased much. but at least it ain't increasing while he's been in charge...

I'm too lazy to look up California's on google...

The 1.81 per capita Elections Canada budget cited was for a non-election year.

The budget for the year of the last general election was not readily available on The Finance Department's website when I tried to find it (it was listed with many other programs as "Other" in the Annual Financial report, and the budget seems to be devoid of concrete figures).