Free hospitals ,and someone has to support all the freebe's in the canadian system. not sure that i agree.
cigarettes are 10.50/pac
gas(regular is over .80/litre(1 US quart)...about 325/us gal...2.44 US / us gal.
wages are about the same.

 

The cost of that FREE stuff is way to HIGH for me. Lets see Socialism, Huge taxes. But at least the free loaders don't even have to try and be a responsible, contributing member of your society. It's nice of you guys being so sensitive to the needs of the bums and wackos. After all, it's not fair to ask them to be more than a huge burden on your system and pull all the resources from those willing to work; to ask them to pay their part would be just unsensitive of their need to bleed you dry and convert you fully over to Socialism. Hey why don't you buy them all quads! It's not fair they should have to work for them after all they can just tax you more to pay for the bums quads after all its been working so far !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I have a friend who had triple bypass recently all he had to do was hand them his health card. What would that have cost without insurance, I heard 80,000 dollars. I also heard that 40 million people have no health insurance in United States that is a lot of dead beats and bums, more than all the people in Canada. Could our system be better yes! but don't knock it unless you have something better, which you presently don't.

 

My sister and her husband live in Vt. They're both self employed and have to pay $600 a month for health insurance for them and their 2 kids. All that gets them is disaster insurance; their deductibles are huge, as in they pay the first several thousand dollars per person per year before the insurance company will even start to pay.
Chaos in Mt - I think you'll find that the rate of people on welfare in Canada is not much different than that of the USA.
My income tax rate is considerably higher than US federal and state tax rates, Canadian gas taxes and sales taxes are higher, too. On the other hand, my sister has to pay $4000 a year in property tax on a $250,000 property. (South Vt.) You would pay half that amount in most places in Canada.
When you take all things together, I actually pay less per year in "taxes".