Canada lawmaker suggests letting 3 US states join, get free health care
The comments were responding to President-elect Donald Trump's ongoing suggestions that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.
You're viewing a single thread.
Yeah, right. If California joined they’d be subsidizing health care for the rest of Canada through transfer payments since every province would be considered a “have not province” compared to California.
This is like inviting your billionaire uncle to move in with you and also open a joint bank account.
Edit: just to put some numbers on my point, the GSP (gross state product) of California is $4 trillion, nearly twice that of the GDP of Canada which is $2.18 trillion. Canada’s economy would effectively triple in size by bringing in California.
She's trolling trump. It's not a serious proposition.
One can still fantasize about a brighter future, can they?
Yes, by all means. Considering how dismal it’s about to be in the states, the only ones that would revile you for imaging a brighter future are mostly those who voted to make it darker.
Plus, while May is a parliamentarian, she is also the leader of a party of one elected person.
Which should have been three elected if Trudeau had kept his promise of electoral reform.
Isn't this kinda already the case when you compare California to other states? In terms of subsidizing the rest of the country, not healthcare.
Canada has a massive program of equalization transfer payments where taxes collected in rich provinces go to subsidize poor ones. The US does not have anything like this. None of the state governments have their budgets subsidized by other states.
It's federal taxes so it's the federal government that's subsidizing some provinces and not others to make their potential tax revenue per capita the same, the goal is to make sure those provinces aren't left behind.
If the program didn't exist Albertans would still pay those taxes, they would be used to pay for other Canada wide programs.
Bonus: Lil'PP signed on the the current calculation of transfer payments, it was put in place during the Harper years.
None of the state governments have their budgets subsidized by other states.
Maybe not directly, but... https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/donor-states
I wonder if Canada sending its water bombers so that California doesn't get burnt to a crisp counts as a transfer payment.
Nah, that's just being a good neighbour.
Yes subsidized healthcare is the goal.
Mostly ours is single payer, except for prescriptions, etc.
Although it has been moving further towards private because of the right-wing provincial governments (who control healthcare spending).
So?
Do you understand the goal of transfer payments? Because from what you just said you already don't understand how it works.
Our population would double too
And we wouldn’t have to cross the border to fight wildfires anymore!
We already don't have to. Plenty of wildfires happen here too.
chonglibloodsport has forgotten how much smoke and burning embers we sent America last year.
Better balance all that by including New England. In Massachusetts, we’re already closest to universal healthcare