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MichMan

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5. Let's assume that the US adopted the Canadian model
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 08:00 AM
Mar 2025

Canadians pay a 15% combination Goods and Services / Harmonized Sales Tax. (a little less in Ontario)

If that was enacted in the US, I don't believe that the US auto manufacturers would pocket the money they are currently paying for health insurance costs for their employees. There is no way that the UAW would accept being hit with much higher sales taxes to pay for something they already have. Nearly certain they would demand that their base wages are increased by a like amount to make them whole.


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