[Newsbot]

Title: U.S. to revive $5.50 tariff on Canadian travellers
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2011-10-24 12:35:36
Canadian

[Gunnair]

As ifI need another reason to stay north of the 49th.

Thumbs up, America!

[Lemmy]

Sounds like I'll be driving away from $5.50 at the gas-pump right before I cross back home.

[Lemmy]

Because the alternative is worse.

[Gunnair]

Canadian tourism should be sending the US a thank you card.

[fifeboy]

Hell, you think that's bad, my dentist charges like $700 for a root canal.

[ShepherdsDog]

raise the price on BC bud.

[Lemmy]

Oh, and by the way, this isn't a tariff. A tariff is a tax on imports. Tourism is an export. This isn't even really a tax. It's more like an entry fee. Hell, it's really just a toll to cross the bridge. I'm pretty certain that such a user fee would be perfectly compliant with NAFTA, were they just to call it such. But I'm still pumpin' and fleein' somewhere in downtown Buffalo.

[DanSC]

I'm not a fan of this new fee on visitors coming by plane (and sea?), but until it is repealed I hope Canada enacts a matching policy.

[herbie]

No let's give them $5.50 to come visit. Then watch them scream we're "Illegally subsidizing tourism".

[Lemmy]

[PublicAnimalNo9]

herbie herbie:

No let's give them $5.50 to come visit. Then watch them scream we're "Illegally subsidizing tourism".

HAHAHAHA niiice

[Regina]

My wife carries a British passport and has had to pay a $6 visa fee which expires every 3 months. Sound like a similar fee except it's every visit?

[martin14]

herbie herbie:

No let's give them $5.50 to come visit. Then watch them scream we're "Illegally subsidizing tourism".

[1Peg]

Well, once Keystone is built we could add a "tarrif" for every barrel of oil sent to the US