| kergeten said: Wow you're a republican tea party nut aren't you? Let me guess, you watch fox news all day? And you're going to a country that's right for precisely the reasons you say it should be wrong, you made America into the corporate hell that it is today and now you're jumping ship? Kinda reminds me of those muslims which fucked up their country with religion and now come to western nations to impose the same fucked up ideology that made them leave their homeland in the first place. |
As a Canadian who has no association to either the Republican party nor the Tea Party, and has never seen Fox news (I’m not going to pay for that) I find your comment bizarre; and it is mostly a symptom of your own ignorance.
Compare the US to Canada, Canada’s debt level (as a percentage of GDP) is smaller than the US, Canada’s deficit (as a percentage of GDP) is smaller than the US, Canada’s government spending (as a percentage of GDP) is smaller than the US and more services are provided by the Canadian government, corporate taxes are lower in many regions of Canada, income taxes in many regions of Canada are more evenly applied across tax brackets, and tax-benefits for investing (RRSPs and TFSAs) encourage investing while sales taxes (GST and HST) discourage spending. And as a result of all of these things, Canada's economy is rapidly healing and our unemployment rate is shrinking.
This isn't to say that Canada doesn't have problems, but when you consider that the "Ultra-socialist" Canada is a more fiscally conservative country than the United States, and Canada is becomming more fiscally conservative while the US is moving in the opposite direction, it isn't difficult to understand the point of view of Mafoo.
