Which is why it will be the income tax. I've been saying it a while now. As soon as Canadians see no income tax in the US, they will want some of that.
We Canadians already see US citizens paying significantly less tax, and we continue to pay our taxes and live with reduced rights rather than be free. I wish I had figured out earlier that I'm actually an American at heart and I would have moved there long ago. Now I have a wife and college-aged kids that are keeping me here. I also have trouble with the cold winters. Ultimately, given the choice between living under the protection of a properly defended US Constitution but still paying high taxes and suffering through cold winters and living in Southern California with zero taxes, I'd choose the former over the latter. I don't think a lot of my fellow Canadians would.
Which is why it will be the income tax. I've been saying it a while now. As soon as Canadians see no income tax in the US, they will want some of that.
We Canadians already see US citizens paying significantly less tax, and we continue to pay our taxes and live with reduced rights rather than be free. I wish I had figured out earlier that I'm actually an American at heart and I would have moved there long ago. Now I have a wife and college-aged kids that are keeping me here. I also have trouble with the cold winters. Ultimately, given the choice between living under the protection of a properly defended US Constitution but still paying high taxes and suffering through cold winters and living in Southern California with zero taxes, I'd choose the former over the latter. I don't think a lot of my fellow Canadians would.