Why is the cover price so much higher in Canada?

[Poppa_Zit]

That's for an entirely different discussion on a different forum -- federal mandates that go unfunded in the budget.

[IRONROOSTER]

from the dictionary:

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<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/ahd4WAV/S0851600/subsidy" target="_blank"><img src="http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif" border="0" /></a>  Audio Help   (sŭb'sĭ-dē)  Pronunciation Key  n.   pl. sub·si·dies Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest. Financial assistance given by one person or government to another. Money formerly granted to the British Crown by Parliament.

 

So, the government is paying for free mail for blind persons.  That would seem to fit definition 1.

Obviously, the free services are only free to the subsidy recipient.  Somebody has to pay for them, in this case the government is doing so.   This qualifies as monetary assistance "by a government to a person or group..."

Enjoy

Paul 

[Poppa_Zit]

  

So, the government is paying for free mail for blind persons.  That would seem to fit definition 1.

Obviously, the free services are only free to the subsidy recipient.  Somebody has to pay for them, in this case the government is doing so.   This qualifies as monetary assistance "by a government to a person or group..."

Enjoy

Paul 

You still don't get it. The BLIND PEOPLE would be the ones receiving the subsidy, NOT THE POSTAL SERVICE, which is what we've been talking about. It is billing for costs incurred and HOPING to be reimbursed. It is NOT asking for a subsidy.

[Pathfinder]

Well first of all you have that 15% General Sales tax.  Secondly there may be customs duty.  Thirdly there is probably paper work to support the shipemnt. I always get grief when I go to Canada for business.  It is much easier to say I take vacations frequently because I like Canada then I am coming for business purposes.  Your government does just about everything it can to hassles US citizens there for business purposes and it may be the same for Kalmbach.  Lastly the price may have been decided before the exchange rate changed.

A minor error; it is Goods and Services Tax. 

-Crandell

Unless you have HST like they do in the east coast provinces.

For those not in the know, this is a combination of the Federal GST and provincial sales tax into one harmonized sales tax.

[nanaimo73]

Poppa, why are you being so grumpy? You don't like long weekends?

[IRONROOSTER]

  

So, the government is paying for free mail for blind persons.  That would seem to fit definition 1.

Obviously, the free services are only free to the subsidy recipient.  Somebody has to pay for them, in this case the government is doing so.   This qualifies as monetary assistance "by a government to a person or group..."

Enjoy

Paul 

You still don't get it. The BLIND PEOPLE would be the ones receiving the subsidy, NOT THE POSTAL SERVICE, which is what we've been talking about. It is billing for costs incurred and HOPING to be reimbursed. It is NOT asking for a subsidy.

Then by your argument the Postal Service has never recieved a subsidy.  They should stop raising rates and let the federal government make up the short fall. It won't be a subsidy, just a bill. 

I guess we should all write our congressional representatives and tell them to lower the rates back to 3 cents and just have the post office bill the difference. Not a subsidy just a bill.

Paul 

 

[tatans]

The answer to the question, and accepted by all Canadians is "because"

[blade]

if you buy your magazine at your local news stand the price is higher,if you take out a subscription you save a little but in reality not all that much.not only does trains and classic trains to which i both subscribe to but also other magazines that come from the united states have higher prices,i subscribe to aviation magazines that bieng my first hobbie next to trains and railroading in general,it is crazy though if our canadian greenback is higher than the yankees why not pay the same for the magazines?

[Bruce Kelly]

Someone mentioned a Japanese rail magazine. About 15 years ago, Shirley Burman forwarded me a copy of Train magazine, published in Japan, which had mostly prototype content but also a bit of modeling. Nearly the entire issue was dedicated to the work of Richard Steinheimer, with a companion piece where Naotaka Hirota put his own photographic stamp on Stein's California stomping grounds. Incredible. Page after page after page of great images, beautifully reproduced (oh, for the days when everything was drum scanned!), and most of them run as a single, big photo full-bleed across both pages. One big spread after another. Text in both Japanese and English. To subscribe from the U.S. would have cost a small fortune. Same goes for another great overseas magazine, Motive Power from Australia.

[Poppa_Zit]

  

So, the government is paying for free mail for blind persons.  That would seem to fit definition 1.

Obviously, the free services are only free to the subsidy recipient.  Somebody has to pay for them, in this case the government is doing so.   This qualifies as monetary assistance "by a government to a person or group..."

Enjoy

Paul 

You still don't get it. The BLIND PEOPLE would be the ones receiving the subsidy, NOT THE POSTAL SERVICE, which is what we've been talking about. It is billing for costs incurred and HOPING to be reimbursed. It is NOT asking for a subsidy.

Then by your argument the Postal Service has never recieved a subsidy.  They should stop raising rates and let the federal government make up the short fall. It won't be a subsidy, just a bill. 

I guess we should all write our congressional representatives and tell them to lower the rates back to 3 cents and just have the post office bill the difference. Not a subsidy just a bill.

Paul 

It's impossible to argue facts and nowhere did I ever say the Postal Service has never received a subsidy. You've resorted to putting up a straw man, Paul, and I won't play that silly game.