why is shit soooo much cheaper in the usa?

Cuz we got Mexicans doin our shit for us yo! Cheap labor!

what shit is cheap here?

car in canada = 50,000$

car in usa = 30,000$

what kind of fucking car are you buying for $30K? the average car goes for much less than that.

I buy my cars from private owners for under 10 grand.

to answer the question.. because we have Wal~Mart

Supply and demand ,more population more demand,Our government taxes businesses more and the consumer winds up paying more

we have wal mart also, we are just like a small usa.

especially on clothing, u can get like a blazer in the usa for $150 cheaper.

Horse shit. I bought the best shorts I ever had in Roots store in TO for 20 CND .. Those would be like 40 in stores like Banana Republic in states.

Maybe in Calgary. Move to Vancouver..

I always thought it's the law of supply and demand.. but wtf.. I don't think it exists anymore .. everything seems to go up up and shitty away...

because usa is #1 duh

The USA is one of the world's biggest consumers of everything. So I guess we get lots of discounts.

in what?

I know.

I don't get this either.
No way will I pay more for the same car i'd get in the US for cheaper.

Some companies aren't so bad though... on low end cars, prices are about the same... The civic is a good example. 14.5k US in the US and 15.5k US in Canada... yet, if you look at a Subaru STI, it will run you about 30k in the US and about 45K US here in Canada.

any decent new car is $30k+...

Supply and Demand.

Here in the US, we are so full of shit, that shit is really cheap.

yep, i think a thread was started about this, its crazy,

what kind of tax or import charge do i need to pay to bring in an american car myself? any idea? (if i drive it across the boarder)

I think it's lower taxes in the US !

i think its mostly changes to meet canada safety / emissions which is probably pretty minor, plus gst and/or pst.

Its your dumb socialized health care. They have to jack up prices on everything to pay for it.

As for the car question.

What is the import tax from U.S to CAD on a car. Assuming you buy here and export yourself.

As someone mentioned, supply and demand

I thought the U.S. sucked........

thats a crock of shit. i pay more for medicare in the US than I did for MSP in canada and I actually got something for it there not just like the promise of pills when i'm old. ei was alot less than social security, and even income tax in BC was less than it is in california.

i think he was just making a point lol..

You can get luxury vehicles for $10 grand in the states if you know where to look.

Also, it depends on the area you live in.

The cost of living in NY (not NYC) is cheap as hell as opposed to Boston or NYC where its about 2-3x as much.

Its because economically the USA rule the world, oil the number 1 comodity in the world is sold exclusively in dollars so every country in the entire world have to keep their reserve currency in dollars

The U.S. economy has acquired significant structural imbalances, including our record-high $503 billion trade account deficit (5% of GDP), a $6.9 trillion dollar deficit (60% of GDP), and the recent return to annual budget deficits in the hundreds of billions. These imbalances are exacerbated by the Bush administration's ideologically driven tax and budget policies, which are creating enormous deficits for the rest of this decade. These factors would significantly devalue the currency of any other nation under the "rules of economics.' Why is the dollar still the predominant currency despite these structural imbalances, and why does it appear immune from our twin deficits? While many Americans assume the strength of the U.S. dollar merely rests on our economic output (GDP), the ruling elites understand that the dollar's strength is founded on two fundamentally unique advantages relative to all other hard currencies.

The reality is that the "safe harbor" status of the U.S. dollar since 1945 rests on it being the international reserve currency. Thus it has assumed the role of sole currency for global oil transactions (ie. `petrodollar'). The U.S. prints hundreds of billions of fiat dollars, which U.S. consumers provide to other nations via the purchase of imported goods. These dollars become "petro-dollars" when are then used by those nation states to purchase oil/energy from OPEC producers (except Iraq, to some degree Venezuela, and perhaps Iran in the near future). Approximately $600 to $800 billion `petrodollars' are annually from OPEC and invested back into the U.S. via Treasury Bills or other dollar-denominated assets such as U.S. stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. This recycling bolsters the dollar's international liquidity value.

"Ever since 1971, when US president Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard (at $35 per ounce) that had been agreed to at the Bretton Woods Conference at the end of World War II, the dollar has been a global monetary instrument that the United States, and only the United States, can produce by fiat. The dollar, now a fiat currency, is at a 16-year trade-weighted high despite record US current-account deficits and the status of the US as the leading debtor nation. The US national debt as of April 4 was $6.021 trillion against a gross domestic product (GDP) of $9 trillion.

"By definition, dollar reserves must be invested in US assets, creating a capital-accounts surplus for the US economy. Even after a year of sharp correction, US stock valuation is still at a 25-year high and trading at a 56 percent premium compared with emerging markets.

". . . The US capital-account surplus in turn finances the US trade deficit. Moreover, any asset, regardless of location, that is denominated in dollars is a US asset in essence. When oil is denominated in dollars through US state action and the dollar is a fiat currency, the US essentially owns the world's oil for free. And the more the US prints greenbacks, the higher the price of US assets will rise. Thus a strong-dollar policy gives the US a double win."

Read more about it here - http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html

Don't you guys have free health care for your citizens? If so that's your answer right there.