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The budget U.S. President Barack Obama submitted to Congress on last Monday a proposal within his new budget. One of the main ingredients is with a slap of a fee to each and every Canadian traveling into America at a cost $ 5.50 per person. It doesn’t matter if it’s by land or sea. This fee is not applicable to any other country within the world. By way of introducing this new law it would render $ 110 million Canadian dollars into the American economy.
Really it’s a financing by way of the Canadian economy.
Question for the day
I do you believe that there should be visitor fees placed on Canadians to enter into United States?
I don't see why there couldn't be a fee paid to every country for incoming visitors. That would be helpful to all countries.
ReplyDeleteThere should be no fees for any tourist, we need them! President Obama does not write his budgets anymore than he had anything to do with the health care mess. That is a big problem for me. When President Truman said the buck stops here he meant it. President Obama should be staying home actually listening to the elected people, the public that write, and do some of his own thinking. He was not elected to be a good will ambassador for special interest groups that paid his way into office.
ReplyDeleteIf I didn't already live here... knowing what I know.. I would NEVER visit the U.S. It is the most corrupt nation on the planet... Secondly.. why put yourself at risk eating what is called "food" here? This place is a cesspool on the brink of being flushed.
ReplyDeletejust another crazy shot in the dark.................
ReplyDeleteWell isn't this interesting. Hm. I know I wouldn't want to pay if the table was reversed. We travel back an forth a lot in mi.
ReplyDeleteCanada and the US have an easy access border. People go back and forth all the time. Tourism and commerce dollars exchange freely between the two countries. I think it would have a negative effect on commerce.
ReplyDeleteMelanie, that would be one area - without any doubts. Not one country but if so internationally there would
ReplyDeletebe this. However, this is something that came and I have always liked Obama. But I think he is trying to render
all that is possible. It was not the President that I believe in and I think that this is what would be considered
a singular tariff.
Tee I never knew that you were still on here and I feel exactly the same way. As this is creating a miff with most all Canadians.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of the 49th parallel as being one to create more money from one country to another. For that matter, George Washington's
first bank was within Nova Scotia.....yet this is now.
Jacquie, in no manner am I anti american. I was raised there. I just ponder on some of these things that are taking place.
ReplyDeleteI would much rather write within other areas - but I will say it. China is sitting and just waiting to kindle something with Canada.
But this country was founded to think and not act fast.
Not really based on the economy...what we all have. Is really due to a very gifted agreement that
ReplyDeletecame between these to lands. I hope there is diplomacy on this one Linda.
The difference is if you ask Cinn and don't take it personal. Is Canada right now does have one of the best
ReplyDeleteeconomies within the world. So if you were travelling to Canada smiling here - in the summer where ever or if to another land.
Would you like that you had a tariff based on that you were from America? I think not. I could be wrong.
It just gives a reversal and idea of what many Canadians are feeling right now with the GOP in America.
Nafta was set up and not by Canada. But when it was I was watching it from within America. Right now Sharon.
ReplyDeleteI just think that whomever is advising the president really needs to understand globally as well as between these
two lands how much is shared. Commerce and otherwise. Or..................we have another super power that is
across the pond. I don't mean England.
I think it is financial suicide to charge an admission to enter the country. Also is that $5.50 Canadian or American? Depending on the day that amount can mean a lot of different things. I look at it this way. As a Canadian on holiday in Niagra Falls. Do you stay on the Canadian side with the better views, nicer restaurants, better museums and nicer parks or do you cross into New York and do some shopping for the day and visit Goat Island and have dinner at a burger place in town. Adding $11 a couple Goat Island isn't looking so great. Spend the day at Table Rock, walk up to Casino Niagra and have dinner at the top of the Minolta Tower. Put the $11 toward drinks with dinner or the People Mover for the day.
ReplyDeleteMore Canadians (as you know I am a mix) travel to America, yet this does have a impact on the choice that they make especially during the winter.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, freedom is where there are no borders. I literally can indicate that within the past Sharon and as well within this very times in which we
live. It's all within the government and the need for money not within the people. As there are many here that have been or have traveled to other lands,
with may include Canada. And then there are some that have relatives distant or otherwise that go far beyond what we call a border. But what I do know
is if I had one shopping mall I would not be asking the patrons from across the street for a fee to get in from one to another.
Exactly! I think if you want to discourage tourism this is the perfect way to do it. I would think twice about it. I know a lot of Canadians who will be traveling for a couple days end up also purchasing special health insurance to protect them if they get hurt of sick in the US. People in Canida are afraid of the US medical system and the costs.
ReplyDeleteNot really as believe it or not they are tied in by way of something that was formed back in the 1990's. Yet this is not about Medical. It's about
ReplyDeletea taxation without valid representation. My the people in other lands might just be looking at this. Yet facts are facts.
Oh I know this has nothing to do with medical. The medical aspect of travel into the US is another story, yet for people taking extended vacations into the US from Canada it is also a consideration. Soem could argue this $5.50 is a fee for service or an entertainment tax. But for what. Other then the right to pay the fee and cross the border, what does a Canadian get? It seems fairly arrogant to suggest the priviledge of visiting this country has a monetary amount.
ReplyDeleteIt's a man that needs money, a fine leader that need to have a good budget plan. Unfortunately on the backbone of his colleague Stephan Harper.
ReplyDeleteSimply put it, the President wants to raise money by way of taxing the visitors. Which the way I thought is just fine, as long as it is all in the amount that would not hurt so much.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of money. $5.50 is $5.50 every singular person travelling add it up, and you have millions. Plus adding up taxes derived from foods, services rendered, and entertainment. gosh. The amount should be lower a bit.
There has never been a tax to travel between these two nations.
ReplyDeletethen that would be fine.
ReplyDeleteHeck no! We should be charging the Mexicans, there are more of them coming here.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the charge might be in paving there way back, yet Mexico is not Canada. No..
ReplyDeleteI have rethought this. It already costs about $150 for all the passport fees, I don't think we need any more fees. Is there a way to sneak across the border? Just kidding there Jack about sneaking in.
ReplyDeleteNancy last night I thought about this much.
ReplyDeleteWhen I mentioned the people from Latin America or as you mentioned Mexico. What I meant was that there is a differentiation. As in real life I do have some good spanish friends. You mentioned the cost. And I had suggested the option - but the option would be for the Mexican government to pay to bring these people back. And to apprehend the current ones that are doing as we see.
Canada has never been a fortress Nancy. You know from my writes that I was raised within America. That being said, I think that the there was a mistake made here of grand as we are not the best. For that matter Canada is not the best. But Canada is economically sound and right now China is just waiting for the change of bilateral agreements. And as Canadian pays a levy as done in America
this is a grand mistake of taxation without knowledgeable representation.
If this was imposed on all countries it would be different. Obama did make a grand mistake as right now there are special ops tending to things before we do leave some places. This is Canada which I resided and if I sound patriotic...it probably due to the very fact that I am. I speak to friends by phone nearly every week from NY, Orlando, and California. I believe in a few leaders these days as most are for an onto themselves. This is not about American people. This is about what Canadian people have to pay - for what purpose? If you said security....I have an answer there that may just take you by surprise. But probably not.
I believe in no taxation for travel. I do believe in the passport system
No postulations please on here what we call " Family Day " and there which is " Presidents Day ".
If we charge Canadians, we should charge people from every other country too. It should be all or none.
ReplyDeleteI believe so Susan and I am not the only one, not at all. As to charge any Canadian that does meet the clearance that does take place here
ReplyDeleteis one that is most valid. This is where there can be a change in the order of where this have been in place and put into place for good reason.
A few presidental quotes:
Harry S. Truman
Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.
Dwight Eisenhower
Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.
John F. Kennedy
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. What unites us is far greater than what divides us.
Ronald Reagan
We are happy to be your neighbor. We want to remain your friend. We are determined to be your partner and we are intent on working closely with you in a spirit of co-operation.
Bill Clinton
Canada has shown the world how to balance freedom with compassion and tradition with innovation, in your efforts to provide health care to all your citizens, to treat your senior citizens with the dignity and respect they deserve, to take on tough issues like the move afoot to outlaw automatic weapons designed for killing and not for hunting....
Ah, I see, I admit my ignorance on this matter.
ReplyDeleteIf I may I hail from both countries and these two countries have much more than what one ever would hear on the media.
ReplyDeleteHence. I don't believe that this taxation without representation.
Stupid, stupid, stupid - just plain stupid. What next from that man?
ReplyDeleteWow, if that's per person, that adds up fast. I against all kinds of fees. Hate it when one has to pay to cross a bridge, drive on the Thruway, park a car, etc. All about the all might dollar!
ReplyDeleteI just got back here and it's cold Theresa and I had my reservations on this but when I saw it I thought why not - I never get too political. So I thought of taking if off but I left it on. As you know I lived half my life in your state. So I think this probably will be overturned yet I did have my repercussions with it.
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