Jack, that top 1% is carrying part of your dead weight, in case you didn't notice.

Take them out of the picture and suddenly you would be paying more taxes to make up for what they pay for you.

The Canuckians need to learn a little respect themselves. How is Canada's trade surplus doing?

Aaaahhhhh, Canada's trade surplus with the U.S. is $6.13 billion while the trade deficit with countries other than the United States is $3.8 billion.

Looks like Canada sells stuff to the US, uses that to buy cheap stuff from other countries like China and still has money left over to pay for it's socialist form of government.

Take the US out of the picture and what happens? Socialism collapses once again because it is a non-viable form of government unless it has rich capitalist countries to feed off of while decrying how evil they are.