MEXICOWANDERER
las peñas, michoacan, mexico
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Is it import taxes, or transportation, or what? I can understand why a made-in-Canada product costs more than a dirt-cheap import but paying double for a solar panel. When I was there I needed a 10-ply tire and the price just shocked me. Then I started looking around and everything was way, way higher than the same stuff in the states. How can you folks RV with everything costing a king's ransom? I didn't go to a place like Wal-Mart so I don't know if they would have been less costly but eighty dollars for the same brand of sewer hose that costs thirty in the states is a bit much. Thanks.
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rbrand
Victoria, BC, Canada
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The answer is simple. In three words. Taxes, Taxes, Taxes.
That is how we pay for our heath care and our government is not in debt.
We don't like paying them but we do like what they do.
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Artum Snowbird
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Yesterday I took my wife to our city hospital. She was in the emergency room being checked and diagnosed with high blood pressure for about five hours.
My cost $0. My monthly payment for my medical, about $20.
Some things actually cost less here.
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Big Katuna
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Good answer. I pay about $15K per year for medical insurance and deductibles. And this year that will go up as I need some dental work done. You can buy a lot of solar panels and sewer hoses for that.
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downtheroad
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wrote:The answer is simple. In three words. Taxes, Taxes, Taxes.
That is how we pay for our heath care and our government is not in debt.
We don't like paying them but we do like what they do.
The Current Outstanding Public Debt of Canada is approximately:
$587,458,587,776.44 CDN
Last Updated: July 16th, 2012
Every man, woman and child in Canada currently owes $17,223.10 for their share of Canada's public debt
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It isn't just direct taxes, there are the indirect costs on doing business there. As an example I know a business owner in BC that has told me that his cost to buy a certain line of tools, made in Canada is higher then his competitor's cost, in the USA, for the exact same tool.
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mena661
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Are corporate taxes higher there?
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How soon we forget!!!
I can remember the days when I could get a Canadian dollar for 62 cents American. But then it was the Canadians that got shafted when they came to the States.
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BFL13
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The prices here are typical but note that some things like panels cost way more than in the States but other smaller things are about the same price (controllers, Trimetric) So while taxes are often to blame, shipping weight/size must be involved too.
http://www.wegosolar.com/
Note that ordering panels in the States for those low prices does not include the huge shipping cost --you need to go wherever and pick them up personally to get the good price.
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robna
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We have friends who shop in bellingham for grocerys school stuff and clothes for there family of 5 same size as our family. Ive done the math and the difference between them and me who prefers to shop in canada is about 40 bucks, to me not worth it. It is more up here but our medical coverage is incredible. It balances out in the end
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