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Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.

One VERY good reason not to live in Quebec.

Honestly though, how productive are your tax dollars? In the US, it
seems a large percentage of tax dollars are buying luxuries for the
beneficiaries of a very inefficient system.

Yes. - If you decide to leave Quebec to pay lower taxes, don't (I repeat
DON'T) move to California.....:^)


Why? What kind of system do they have?

Much the same as Quebec.....A ridiculously high tax system. After I paid
about 30% of my income in federal payroll taxes, I had to pay about 10% in
state payroll taxes. Then I had to pay 1-1/2 % of my homes appraised value
in property taxes every year. Then I had to pay several hundred dollars for
each of my vehicles in property taxes. (called yearly registration fees,
which is how they get around not franchising the head of the DMV as a tax
collector) And then, after all that, when I went to the store to spend what
little I had left over, I had to pay 8% sales taxes on that. - The total
bite was very close to 50%, just as it is in Quebec.

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In rec.photo.digital Paul Bielec wrote:

Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.

One VERY good reason not to live in Quebec.

Honestly though, how productive are your tax dollars? In the US, it
seems a large percentage of tax dollars are buying luxuries for the
beneficiaries of a very inefficient system.

Yes. - If you decide to leave Quebec to pay lower taxes, don't (I repeat
DON'T) move to California.....:^)


Why? What kind of system do they have?


Much the same as Quebec.....A ridiculously high tax system. After I paid
about 30% of my income in federal payroll taxes, I had to pay about 10% in
state payroll taxes. Then I had to pay 1-1/2 % of my homes appraised value
in property taxes every year. Then I had to pay several hundred dollars for
each of my vehicles in property taxes. (called yearly registration fees,
which is how they get around not franchising the head of the DMV as a tax
collector) And then, after all that, when I went to the store to spend what
little I had left over, I had to pay 8% sales taxes on that. - The total
bite was very close to 50%, just as it is in Quebec.


Actually, in Quebec, with an above average income, it is much more than
50% when you add everything.
With a 60000$ gross income, you end up paying 40% in deductions (federal
tax, provincial tax, unemployment insurance etc.) If you earn more, it
is even worse because any income above 50000$ is taxed at over 50%.
I'm paying probably around 2% of my home value in municipal and school
taxes. The sale tax is 15% and the gas costs 1$ a liter. And of course
the license plates are another 250$ per year. And so on...

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In rec.photo.digital Paul Bielec wrote:

Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.

One VERY good reason not to live in Quebec.

Honestly though, how productive are your tax dollars? In the US, it
seems a large percentage of tax dollars are buying luxuries for the
beneficiaries of a very inefficient system.

Yes. - If you decide to leave Quebec to pay lower taxes, don't (I repeat
DON'T) move to California.....:^)


Why? What kind of system do they have?


Much the same as Quebec.....A ridiculously high tax system. After I paid
about 30% of my income in federal payroll taxes, I had to pay about 10%
in state payroll taxes. Then I had to pay 1-1/2 % of my homes appraised
value in property taxes every year. Then I had to pay several hundred
dollars for each of my vehicles in property taxes. (called yearly
registration fees, which is how they get around not franchising the head
of the DMV as a tax collector) And then, after all that, when I went to
the store to spend what little I had left over, I had to pay 8% sales
taxes on that. - The total bite was very close to 50%, just as it is in
Quebec.
Actually, in Quebec, with an above average income, it is much more than
50% when you add everything.
With a 60000$ gross income, you end up paying 40% in deductions (federal
tax, provincial tax, unemployment insurance etc.) If you earn more, it is
even worse because any income above 50000$ is taxed at over 50%.
I'm paying probably around 2% of my home value in municipal and school
taxes. The sale tax is 15% and the gas costs 1$ a liter. And of course the
license plates are another 250$ per year. And so on...

Well, I left California just as soon as possible after I retired, and I
didn't go to Quebec....:^) - I went to Oregon, where we don't have any sales
taxes, and the vehicle registration fees were $15 a year, regardless of what
you drove. Since then, however, they have arbitrarily raised the DMV fees to
about $28 a year, without getting the permission of the electorate
beforehand, which means that the handwriting is on the wall in that
department. They seem to think that the DMV is an autonomous state tax
collection agency which doesn't need the permission of the public to charge
anything it damn well pleases anytime it wants the money for any purpose it
wants it for. Like California's DMV, it will soon become the most powerful
bureaucracy in the state, and nobody (but me) seems to give a damn.

Scott Schuckert wrote:

In article , William
Graham wrote:


...The insurance companies refuse to pay the providers unless they are billed
correctly, and I have to do most of the paperwork in order to make that
happen...


I have it on good authority (I maintain some of their computers for
them, and a girlfriend works in billing) that at least one very large
medical insurance company randomly refuses properly submitted claims.

Aside from the number that are refused for improper paperwork, roughly
20% are kicked out just to see if they can get away without paying. Of
these, about half are not re-submitted. The extra claims selected are
not really random; my friends JOB is to select those whose refusal is
least likely to be challenged.

All in the name of optimizing investor returns, of course.

Why does that NOT surprise me?

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

In rec.photo.digital Paul Bielec wrote:

Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.


One VERY good reason not to live in Quebec.

Honestly though, how productive are your tax dollars? In the US, it
seems a large percentage of tax dollars are buying luxuries for the
beneficiaries of a very inefficient system.


Boeing, Haliburton, Carlyle ...

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In rec.photo.digital Paul Bielec wrote:

Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.

One VERY good reason not to live in Quebec.

Honestly though, how productive are your tax dollars? In the US, it
seems a large percentage of tax dollars are buying luxuries for the
beneficiaries of a very inefficient system.

Yes. - If you decide to leave Quebec to pay lower taxes, don't (I repeat
DON'T) move to California.....:^)



Why? What kind of system do they have?



Well, their governator used to be the terminator if that tells you anything.

"William Graham" wrote in message
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of course the
license plates are another 250$ per year. And so on...

Well, I left California just as soon as possible after I retired, and I
didn't go to Quebec....:^) - I went to Oregon, where we don't have any
sales taxes, and the vehicle registration fees were $15 a year, regardless
of what you drove. Since then, however, they have arbitrarily raised the
DMV fees to about $28 a year,

Ha try £161 a year.

Paul Bielec wrote:
Ray Fischer wrote:
Paul Bielec wrote:

In Quebec, we do have the public healthcare system. And we do pay the
highest taxes in North America.


So many people, all whining that they pay the highest taxes.

Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.

Evidence?

--
Ray Fischer

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Paul Bielec wrote:

Pretty much the same thing here. The taxes used to be justified by free
social services, education and healthcare.
But the services are just getting worse and worse...

It seems that the more socialist the system (i.e. the USSR), the faster
the decline. Better fasten your seat belt.

In fact the more capitalist systems treat their citizens worse. In
the US we have limited health care, more poverty, and declining wages,
worse education, than in someplace like Canada, Britain, or France.

--
Ray Fischer

William Graham wrote:
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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote in message

Just so you know, Quebec actually DOES have the highest taxes in North
America.

One VERY good reason not to live in Quebec.

Honestly though, how productive are your tax dollars? In the US, it
seems a large percentage of tax dollars are buying luxuries for the
beneficiaries of a very inefficient system.

Yes. - If you decide to leave Quebec to pay lower taxes, don't (I repeat
DON'T) move to California.....:^)


Why? What kind of system do they have?

Much the same as Quebec.....A ridiculously high tax system. After I paid
about 30% of my income in federal payroll taxes, I had to pay about 10% in
state payroll taxes. Then I had to pay 1-1/2 % of my homes appraised value
in property taxes every year. Then I had to pay several hundred dollars for
each of my vehicles in property taxes. (called yearly registration fees,
which is how they get around not franchising the head of the DMV as a tax
collector) And then, after all that, when I went to the store to spend what
little I had left over, I had to pay 8% sales taxes on that. - The total
bite was very close to 50%, just as it is in Quebec.

Wah, wah, wah.

Wars cost money.
Debt costs money.

Every year about 25% of your federal income tax does nothing but pay
interest in the national debt. Another $1000 went to kill people in
Iraq. Meanwhile republicans think that rich people should get money
tax-free while you pay more.

--
Ray Fischer