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Article #971Re: gas up 7 cents
From: DGS
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:18
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:18
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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 - 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). -- DGS
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109a5e,c2fb03266098b7ef X-Google-Attributes: gid109a5e,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c2fb03266098b7ef X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: fbdd9,ef45faaba511f74d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbdd9,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,c2fb03266098b7ef X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 108c64,c2fb03266098b7ef X-Google-Attributes: gid108c64,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-21 11:19:04 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!65.102.164.118!not-for-mail From: DGS <dSPAMSUCKS@NOSPAM.org> Newsgroups: hfx.general,van.general,calgary.general,wpg.general,tor.general Subject: Re: gas up 7 cents Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:18:31 -0700 Organization: Die Spammer Die Lines: 30 Message-ID: <bfhaio$e99vc$1@ID-75266.news.uni-berlin.de> References: <C_DQa.41505$PD3.251525@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <LbGQa.2941$Fy1.133292@localhost> <2ee6hv47fbf2qk6tl8abvi3390k634m2l0@4ax.com> <3F133DDD.3000905@hotmail.com> <DUJQa.41686$PD3.259333@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <3lu8hv4pdmrqd25r0i88nb7un08tmendv2@4ax.com> <3WnRa.447837$ro6.10766366@news2.calgary.shaw.ca> <3F17351E.2000601@hotmail.com> Reply-To: dSPAMSUCKS@NOSPAM.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.102.164.118 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1058811288 14985196 65.102.164.118 (16 [75266]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3F17351E.2000601@hotmail.com>