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I stumbled across this today on Midday on the way to a dentist appt. I found it quite fascinating.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/displa ... 5/midday2/

It's about an hour long program with T.R. Reid.

Journalist and best-selling author T.R. Reid travelled the world to write "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care." He spoke at the Commonwealth Club of California about his new book.


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Taly, I pulled the data from wiki, and they say:
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Provincial and federal sales tax rates at the retail level on goods and some services are as follows:

Province HST GST PST Total Tax
Alberta 5% 5%
British Columbia 5% 7% 12%
Manitoba 5% 7% 12%
New Brunswick 13% 13%
Newfoundland and Labrador 13% 13%
Nova Scotia 13% 13%
Ontario 5% 8% 13%
Prince Edward Island 5% 10% 15.5%*
Quebec 5% 7.5% 12.875%*
Saskatchewan 5% 5% 10%

* in Québec and PEI, PST is calculated on the total price including GST



So the 15% was an additive estimate of taxation. I don't think the numbers are all accurate to more than a few percent... but they serve to show the disparity between taxation in European countries, Canada, and the US.

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