PS3 Fanboy

And echochrome!

no don't you dare joke on her free healthcare.

and i will start buying for the store tomorrow.

lie! healthcare is not free here, there is a bracket, that once you make a certain amount of money per year, then you have to pay out the rear for healthcare, and btw! prescriptions up here in Canada are cheap yes... but surgery up here is 10x more expensive than in the USA, especially when you are above the low income bracket.

Nothing can justify some of our citizens having to pay 40% (or more) of their salaries to the government. It's much more than a minor flaw.

Who pays that much?? How is that even possible when theres OHIP (and i think every province has their version of it). On top of OHIP, theres other coverage from corporate benefits to personal healthcare plans. I just cant see anyone paying that much unless their job doesnt provide healthcare options in which case those people in those situations are still usually put under someone else's plan (like your parents or spouse).

Come on you guys, don't turn this into some armchair politician discussion.

Yeah, calm down guy.

Damn, if I had a nickel for every Canadian fight I had to break up... I'd have 5 cents (worth about 2 cents across the border!)

Eh?

I'm talking about income tax. We obviously don't directly pay for health care, but it is paid for (along with other services like welfare, etc..) through income taxes.

Here are the Canadian tax rates (make sure you go down and look at the additional provincial rates).

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/taxrates-e.html

For example, in Ontario (where I live), if your salary is over $123,000, you are charged 29% federal income tax, plus 11% provincial, which adds up to forty percent. Whereas, someone who makes under $36,000 is only charged 15% plus 6%, which adds up to 21%. Where do you think all of that money is going. We're paying all of that money for a sub-par service? Don't you think that's kind of ridiculous?

I love how "free" all of our services are.

@ Riley,

Ya i pretty much feel the controls on foot suck. Well I dont mean all the controls, I just think the turning radius is garbage (pretty much everything having to do with the left analog stick) and can be sometimes super hard to line up up with something (like fighting, or something along those lines)