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Re: gas up 7 cents

#952
From: Jason Cormier
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:20
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On 7/22/03 21:24, in article 3F1DE3B0.2080208@hotmail.com, "Mr Frederick"
<fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Jason Cormier wrote:
>> On 7/22/03 20:29, in article 3F1DD6CD.9070507@hotmail.com, "Mr Frederick"
>> <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Jason Cormier wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 7/21/03 20:32, in article 3F1C861D.9020902@hotmail.com, "Mr Frederick"
>>>> <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Um, say what?  You been hanging around Downtown Eastside and sharing in
>>>>>> the goodies or something?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The American market is 10x as big, but also has at least 10x the infra-
>>>>>> structure to maintain
>>>>> 

If the headers are correct, you wrote this....

>>>>> You forget, it is in a physically smaller country, as well.

If so, see below...

>>>> Canada is a whole 9% larger that the US. You also forget that a far larger
>>>> portion of the US is in habited, and thus in need of development, than
>>>> Canada.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> So what you are saying is that Canada is bigger, but has 1/10th the people
>>> to pay the bills for development, so economy of scale dictates lower tax
>>> bills? 
>> 
>> 
>> How does it dictate  lower tax bills for Canadians?
>> 
> (Sound of ruler hitting desk)
> Wake up!  The thread was about lower tax levels in the USA.  If you are
> going to walk into a room in the middle of a conversation, you should
> catch up before you jump in.

You need to be more careful in how you word your statements. Since my
previous post was not proving your point, your response created the
impression that you were arguing what I asked. The key is the amount of
inhabited land in need of development. It has less than 1/10th the developed
area of the US so it is not as simple a conclusion as you believe.
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Subject: Re: gas up 7 cents
From: Jason Cormier <fjlij@hotmail.com>
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