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  • #16
    Originally posted by chequita guevara View Post
    Canada's doing better because of oil revenues. Let's see what happens now that oil has fallen.
    Oil revenues? Look at the decline in 90-2000. Oil revenues then weren't hot...
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    • #17
      Originally posted by chequita guevara View Post
      Canada's doing better because of oil revenues. Let's see what happens now that oil has fallen.
      Errr....if you want to look at the absolute numbers, the decline in spending as a % isn't due to some sort of abnormal growth in Canadian GDP, but rather due to "cuts" (actually just holding steady) in government spending.

      You can't attribute that to oil prices. Governments north of the border chose to follow a different spending trajectory than those south of it.
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      • #18
        Don't fret

        I'm sure that Canada will be happy to take in whatever boat people the US sends our way. We do ask that you learn to speak our language(s) however. Repeat after me:

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Asher View Post
          Oil revenues? Look at the decline in 90-2000. Oil revenues then weren't hot...
          Okay, I'm definitely wrong.
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          • #20
            Top total marginal income tax rate for a resident of Toronto: 40.16%
            Top total marginal income tax rate for a resident of New York City: 46.35%

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            • #21
              Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
              Top total marginal income tax rate for a resident of Toronto: 40.16%
              Top total marginal income tax rate for a resident of New York City: 46.35%

              And we get health care
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              • #22
                What the hell are they spending all that money on?

                Will American expats have to start sending remittances to their benighted stay-at-home relatives?
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                Killing it is the new killing it
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                • #23
                  Half of our budget goes to pay for past, present, and future wars.
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                  • #24
                    Perhaps you should stop pissing people off so much that you end up fighting them.

                    We'll sell you the secret of our Stealth Nation Technology for a one-time lump sum payment of....oh, say 1 trillion $CAN (in gold please; we know that you guys tend to bounce cheques).

                    Should be a steal for you.
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                    • #25
                      We don't fight wars because we've pissed people off. We fight wars because we're MEN and we LOVE FIGHTIN'!
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                      • #26
                        Hey, I'm not the one in favor of wagging our dick all around the world.

                        Damn x-post
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by DaShi View Post
                          We don't fight wars because we've pissed people off. We fight wars because we're MEN and we LOVE FIGHTIN'!
                          So do we. Hockey is cheaper than a war.
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                          • #28
                            Even when you factor in beer money?
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                            • #29
                              It's better to allow your citizens to spend their own money than it is to spend it for them.




                              It's crazy that we're now in a world where Canadians can defensibly preach small-government values to Americans.
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                              • #30
                                Well, technically you're spending your children's money.

                                US: a nation of deadbeat dads
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