U.S. to revive $5.50 tariff on Canadian travellers
Newsbot @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:43 pm
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 @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:43 pm
As ifI need another reason to stay north of the 49th.
Thumbs up, America!
Lemmy @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:52 pm
Sounds like I'll be driving away from $5.50 at the gas-pump right before I cross back home. 
Lemmy @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:53 pm
Because the alternative is worse.
Gunnair @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:55 pm
Canadian tourism should be sending the US a thank you card.
fifeboy @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:57 pm
Hell, you think that's bad, my dentist charges like $700 for a root canal.
ShepherdsDog @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:58 pm
raise the price on BC bud.
Lemmy @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:09 pm
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 @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:18 pm
I'm not a fan of this new fee on visitors coming by plane (and sea?), but until it is repealed I hope Canada enacts a matching policy.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 @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:24 pm
No let's give them $5.50 to come visit. Then watch them scream we're "Illegally subsidizing tourism".
Lemmy @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:34 pm
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:06 pm
herbie herbie:
No let's give them $5.50 to come visit. Then watch them scream we're "Illegally subsidizing tourism".
HAHAHAHA niiice
Regina @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:01 pm
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 @ Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:06 pm
herbie herbie:
No let's give them $5.50 to come visit. Then watch them scream we're "Illegally subsidizing tourism".
1Peg @ Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:39 am
Well, once Keystone is built we could add a "tarrif" for every barrel of oil sent to the US