True, Kendall. But taxes also go for other things, too. The average Canadian pays about 23% income tax and 7% GST and some provinces have a sales tax of about 7%. The high cost items are health care, social assistance and education. However, people here don't go broke paying hospital bills. As in the USA, our tax free day--the date at which we have theoretically arrived at a paycheck that is not taxed is in late July, I think. So, yes we have tax. But, we also have universal health care. The USA should look at doing that, too, IMO. Just a friendly suggestion from north of the border--or south if yer in Alaska, or east if yer in Hawaii. Course, when ya spend a billion a day on a war in Iraq, I guess health care is difficult to fund.

BM