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Subject:RE: Trying to flee the country From:"Caron, Camille" <CCARON -at- chromavision -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:07:45 -0700
That's why I left the country, in Quebec, my taxes last year (fed and prov)
were 48%-- in California, it's under 30% (and people here still think that's
too high). Love that mortgage interest
deduction thing. Okay, and it's sunny too...
Anyone want to hear about the 2-3% unemployment rate too?
Camille Lemberg Caron
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Senior Technical Writer
ChromaVision Medical Systems, Inc.
San Juan Capistrano, CA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Win Day [SMTP:winday -at- home -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 1:21 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Trying to flee the country
>
> At 02:13 PM 4/26/00 -0600, Carter Campbell wrote:
> > > Canada is a great place to work.... if you don't mind the
> 62.5%
> >income tax rate
> > > and another 15% tax on anything you buy. Can you believe the
> tax
> >on alcohol
> > > is 80%? Now that's just nasty!
> >
> > Jeez! Where the hell are you living?! And how did you manage
> to
> >get into a 62.5% tax bracket as a technical writer? What, you have a
> seven
> >figure income or somethig?!
> >
> > Carter Campbell
>
>
>
