11-14-2016, 06:28 PM
In your case, you might even be better off making $53K here than $80K there.
Your salary would be above the $71K Canadian money now, but you could have bought your house here for half what you pair or less.
And I just looked at the exchange rate for the last 10 years, and a lot of the last ten years Canadian dollars are in the 70s-80s% of a US dollar.
When you combine that with the higher taxes there, you might come out the same or ahead making far less here.
I think in many ways our systems are very equal and yours just pays higher to cover the costs of socialism.
It's like I tell the people here that want a $15 minimum wage:
All this would do is make $15 worth the current $7.25 if employment levels went up. Prices would rise to cover the higher wages and in response to the greater cash flow, other wages would ripple up as people who made $15/hr for skilled work rightly complained about making the same as the McDonalds crew.
Your salary would be above the $71K Canadian money now, but you could have bought your house here for half what you pair or less.
And I just looked at the exchange rate for the last 10 years, and a lot of the last ten years Canadian dollars are in the 70s-80s% of a US dollar.
When you combine that with the higher taxes there, you might come out the same or ahead making far less here.
I think in many ways our systems are very equal and yours just pays higher to cover the costs of socialism.
It's like I tell the people here that want a $15 minimum wage:
All this would do is make $15 worth the current $7.25 if employment levels went up. Prices would rise to cover the higher wages and in response to the greater cash flow, other wages would ripple up as people who made $15/hr for skilled work rightly complained about making the same as the McDonalds crew.