Re: gas up 7 cents

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From: FNO
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:57

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"Mr Frederick" <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> DGS wrote:
> > Mr Frederick wrote:
> >
> >> Mark wrote:
> >>
> >>> Depends where you go, but the taxes in the US are different than in
> >>> Canada.
> >>> The prices in Washington State are almost always lower than in
> >>> Canada, even
> >>> with the conversion.
> >>
> >> The American market is 10 times as big as the Canadian.  With 10 times
> >> the taxpayers, they can afford to have a lower tax on just about
> >> everything, especially when they don't spend as much on "people
> >> services".
> >
> >
> > 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
>
> You forget, it is in a physically smaller country, as well.
>
And they pay bas you go.  Many of their interstates are toll roads.

> - wanna tell me how big the Canadian network of
> > the equivalent of Interstate freeways is, for instance?  And the sheer
> > volume and proportion of USA military spending more than makes up for
> > lack of spending on "people services."
> >
> > The reason gasoline taxes are low in the USA is because Americans are
> > a bunch of whining crybabies, and would bleat like stuck pigs if their
> > gas taxes are raised by as much as 5 cents per US-gallon (or just over
> > a penny per litre).
>

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