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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 18 Dec 2017

    Canada, though ethnically diverse, is better off than the US in many ways (happier, healthier, less violent crime, etc.) One reason: rationality about taxes & social spending, vs the dogma that less is always better. @jonkay writeshttps://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/canada-america-taxes/533847/?utm_source=twb …

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      2.  🍎 Paul McKeever‏ @McKeever_tweets 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @jonkay

        Talk 2 me about "rationality" when there's only 1 operating room open 2/7ths of the time in the country's biggest city, in one of the 3 biggest hospitals, and your brother is dying waiting for "first come first serve" racing to the OR. It's a shit show in Ontario. #learn #onpoli

        12 replies 3 retweets 47 likes
      3. Chris Almeida  👩‍👧 ➡️ 🇧🇷| 🏠 ➡️ 🇨🇦| ❤️ ➡️ 🇮🇪| 🏳️‍🌈‏ @CAlmeidaAuthor 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @McKeever_tweets @sapinker @jonkay

        I have no idea where you are in Ontario but that's definitely NOT the reality everywhere in Ontario nor in the whole of Canada. I can say for a fact that the health care where I live has never let me down and I've had some pretty serious surgeries in the last 2 years.

        5 replies 1 retweet 43 likes
      4.  🍎 Paul McKeever‏ @McKeever_tweets 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @CAlmeidaAuthor @sapinker @jonkay

        Lucky you. I, on the other hand, have witnessed the fraud that is "universal" health denial. I've got no ill will toward you brother. But give ear to those who weren't as lucky as you because, my fellow Ontarian, you were lucky.

        3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
      5. gabraham drinkin'‏ @gabrielundrigan 19 Dec 2017
        Replying to @McKeever_tweets @CAlmeidaAuthor and

        I dunno about Ontario but in BC you can still pay for 5-star treatment. It’s a huge issue.

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      6. Chris Almeida  👩‍👧 ➡️ 🇧🇷| 🏠 ➡️ 🇨🇦| ❤️ ➡️ 🇮🇪| 🏳️‍🌈‏ @CAlmeidaAuthor 19 Dec 2017
        Replying to @gabrielundrigan @McKeever_tweets and

        I don't have the expectation of a 5-star treatment. That you get at hotels for a lot of money. I only need humane treatment with caring, high-end technology without falling into bankruptcy. That I do get.

        0 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
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      2. GlobetrotterVirtuoso‏ @GTVirtuoso 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @aliamjadrizvi @jonkay

        Per capita, there is not less violent crime, there’s less GUN crime. Big difference.

        3 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
      3. Kevin Stewart‏ @stewak2 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @GTVirtuoso @sapinker and

        Anybody who thinks Canadians are less violent than Americans has never been to a minor hockey game. But no gun culture and reasonable gun control means it’s a pretty safe place

        1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
      4. GlobetrotterVirtuoso‏ @GTVirtuoso 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @stewak2 @sapinker and

        Try downtown Winnipeg. No guns, but there are knives.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      5. Kevin Stewart‏ @stewak2 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @GTVirtuoso @sapinker and

        Sure, and I’m in Winnipeg regularly. But there were a total of 25 homicides in 2016, in a city of 700,000. And Winnipeg is one of the worst cities for per capita murder if I’m not mistaken...in Canada. In US the worst cities of that size likely have hundreds of homicides

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
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      2. yg1968‏ @yag1968 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Robotbeat @jonkay

        The Canadian corporate tax rate is 15% (the provincial rate is about 10%). Canada's international tax system is similar to the one that will be adopted under the U.S. tax reform. The reform is likely based on Canada's corporate & international tax system. Trudeau is not popular.

        4 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Joanbeam3000‏ @Joanbeam3000 19 Dec 2017
        Replying to @yag1968 @sapinker and

        Joanbeam3000 Retweeted National Newswatch

        Trudeau is not popular? The polls suggest otherwise, and have been doing so for a while now.https://twitter.com/natnewswatch/status/943079183512670208 …

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        National NewswatchVerified account @natnewswatch
        Liberals 42, Conservatives 29, NDP 19, Green 6: Nanos | National Newswatch https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2017/12/19/liberals-42-conservatives-29-ndp-19-green-6-nanos/#.Wjj2izJqohR.twitter …
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      2. Gret Glyer  🌍‏ @gretglyer 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @jonkay

        then why don't you move there?

        6 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @gretglyer @sapinker @jonkay

        Better yet, we should all have a basic understanding of our monetary system so we can have a better understanding of where money comes from & the role of taxes in monetarily sovereign countries: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2010/04/fed-chairman-ruml-got-it-right-in-1946.html …pic.twitter.com/Kj6j9ORLZD

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Kathryn Cannon‏ @katiecannon2 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @katiecannon2 @gretglyer and

        pic.twitter.com/hxELwaWjJA

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      1. Staffan‏ @Paradigmian 19 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @jonkay

        There's Chinese diversity and African diversity.

        0 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Blake Smith‏ @blakezsmith 18 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @jonkay

        Except at squashing free speech and promoting arational pseudoscience.

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