Just another reason not to go south

[BobH]

This some kind of joke U.S. proposal for border crossing fee from Canadians draws condemnation | Toronto Star . This could really hurt cross border business.

Bob

[Mike Blue]

But it's not a tax, it's a fee!! That salves the sore conscience of the politicians who are so afraid to raise taxes.

I feel for ya Bob. I get more guff from customs crossing back into the US where I live, than I ever get from the nice guys and gals who let me into Canadia to visit my children. You guys could charge less tax on whiskey, but then health care doesn't cost as much up north either. It's the reverse down south.

[Midoio]

Desperate times for the US and its big deficits.

[gooser]

my trips stopped when they made you get a passport ...lol

[BobH]

Yea, I understand user fees only to well, we have the same gutless politicians over here, especially at the municipal level.

Having to have a passport was never a problem for me, had one almost all my adult life because I had relatives overseas. That has been a crunch for people here too and if the user fees go through that might be the last straw for day trippers, longer holidays not so much.

Working the border on either side is a tough job and harder even now, the friendliness is mostly gone on both side now. Sad how things change and why.

Bob

[1OldGI]

Perhaps they're trying to offset the cost of the people crossing our border to the south who immediately sign up for welfare just like the commercials in Mexico tell them to. They're famous for that, instead of solutions, just continue to piss more people off with band aids. See also sequester, Ben Ghazi cover up, immigration/tax non-reform, gun control, etc.

[gooser]

kinda off topic but since it deals with crossing on over ill post it ..

the thing i thought was interesting was if you have DUI in the U.S.. Canada went let you over .... i dont have one but a group of friends tried to get in a few months ago and it was a no go for 5-6 of them cause of past DUI's , i think they mentioned something about they would have to get a lawyer to apply for a letter from the city you live in as well as the state you live in and send it to Customs ( or something along those lines ) ive been planning to get my passport for years but it hasnt been a priority .....

on a side note if they do this then its only fair to do it on the Southern Border also !! (i admit i didnt read the article , so excuse me if it is in there about the Mexican Border )

[BobH]

There have always been problems for people crossing on both sides of the border if they have a criminal record. I know people who have had criminal records, eg busted for pot many years previous, and been refused entry into the us. They had to apply to have their criminal record expunged in Canada and then you are good to go, literally. I imagine your friends would have to do the same as DUI is a criminal code offense in Canada.

I don't know and should not assume anything, but I would have thought that it would apply to all land border crossing points. Well, the legal ones anyway.

Bob