mrvermin said:Right now in Toronto, Diesel sells for about $0.92 per liter.
Now for the Math
1 gal = 3.79L
$1 USD = $0.99 CAD
So in Toronto, we are already paying about $3.52 US per gallon ...
We export most of our fuel to the US
MrVermin
Pinoy TDI said:
See: http://www.torontogasprices.com/index.aspx?fuel=D
You are paying more for fuel because of those extra taxes your government collects,
not because the 'have' provinces are exporting their surplus fuel South.
Your GST plus PST equals 13 percent alone.
Take that away, and your diesel is actually less than what we are paying here.
Pinoy TDI said:
See: http://www.torontogasprices.com/index.aspx?fuel=D
You are paying more for fuel because of those extra taxes your government collects,
not because the 'have' provinces are exporting their surplus fuel South.
Your GST plus PST equals 13 percent alone.
Take that away, and your diesel is actually less than what we are paying here.
Oh pipe down.mrvermin said:Oh, let us not forget the other taxes at the pump that you do not see...
For every liter of fuel here in Ontario, we pay:
$0.31 combined Local Excise, Privincial Sales Tax, Goods and Services Tax and Federal Excise Taxes
$0.14 Provincial Excise Tax
After those taxes are put on the fuel (before you pump it) you get smacked with another round of Federal GST tax at %5 on the sale at the pump. Now in June Ontario gets the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) where both the GST and PST get merged into one Tax, thereby adding even more to the cost of fuel at the pump...
Again this is a Liberal government trying to raise money for social programs, (Ontario this time)
Welcome to Socialism my good neighbors to the south
MrVermin
Do those other places give every citizen health care for free or next to it?mxs said:Here, we call every attempt to make people waste less socialism. It's easier and more convenient ... LOL
Cheap gas/diesel, electricity and natural gas for decades, makes it very hard to give those goodies up .... other parts of the world have been doing similar for so long, I guess they are all socialists, right?
LOL....oh my silly friend....it is not free.kcfoxie said:Do those other places give every citizen health care for free or next to it?
(then probably the answer is yes)
Having several family members treated and cured of their cancer with no out of pocket expense. I find this very offensive. My wife and I make well over $125,000 a year combined and pay more in taxes in a single year then most make. I for one don't mind. My money goes to help people in need. Either heath care or income assistance. Sure the system isn't perfect, but it's better than being left to die because you don't have money! Shameful!09R/T said:LOL....oh my silly friend....it is not free.
I pay more tax per year then the average canadian family, and american family make combined....and guess where it goes?? To fund some useless "healthcare" that in order to fully utilize, an insurance program such as blue cross must be purchased.
I say get rid of this stupid "universal healthcare" and shove it some liberal butts....the blue cross alone will cover what I need, at a far lower cost!!
Trust me my american friends....get rid of that useless lump of a government you currently have...or you too will lose more than half your income to pay for the useless idiot down the street.
Sucks to be you if you find it offensive...I have had many family members die from cancer because the system failed them and would not provide the treatment they needed. They were not willing to pay for proper treatments...too expensive they said. Blue cross would have covered them( but it was too late), not our crappy socialist society. Not too mention all the idiots who go on EI 6 months of the year, and welfare cases, and provinces with their hands out.NB_TDi said:Having several family members treated and cured of their cancer with no out of pocket expense. I find this very offensive. My wife and I make well over $125,000 a year combined and pay more in taxes in a single year then most make. I for one don't mind. My money goes to help people in need. Either heath care or income assistance. Sure the system isn't perfect, but it's better than being left to die because you don't have money! Shameful!
Come on down off that horse now, please.