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Default Gasoline prices - another record high/ supply and demand

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:52:57 -0400, Bert Robbins wrote:


Is giving half of my income to the government work 2.65 years of living?
Don't know haven't figured that one out yet.


I think you have it backwards. The US pays 15% GDP for health care,
Canada @ 10%. As I have said before, in the global marketplace, that is a
major disadvantage.

And where to you get "half of my income"? Canada's tax structure isn't
that much different than the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Canada