Petros asked me to put this these quotes I posted elsewhere as an independent thread.

These quotes from various US Presidents show how the relationship between Canada and US has evolved.

Today’s IRS has completely lost the “nine parts good will and common sense” Harry Truman spoke about or Ronald Reagan’s “spirit of cooperation.” It seems IRS still harbors the attitude of John Adams (“Canada must be ours. Quebec must be taken.”) and Thomas Jefferson (“The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec will be a mere matter of marching.”

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Cross posted from RenounceUScitizenship.

(Note with the proliferation of FBAR posts – thought you might be interested in this.)

“FBAR  – One Small Step For Man, A Giant Step For Mankind!”

All great advances in civilization spawn new industries. FBAR has spawned “FBAR Lawyers”, “FBAR Historians” and “FBAR Scholars“. When history is written, 2011 will be remembered as the “year of the FBAR.”  In 1983 Time Magazine made a computer the “man of the year”. Perhaps for 2011, the FBAR should be regarded as the “man of the year”. In 2011, tax lawyer Phil Hodgen, recognized the importance of FBAR in an excellent post titled:

“What had God Wrought – FBAR Edition”

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Canada appears to be putting up significant resistance in order to protect its citizens and residents according to its own charter of rights and democratic principles of fairness and justice.   The continuing Canadian experience in this struggle ought to serve as a model for Switzerland’s (and other nation’s) necessary attempts to do the same.

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“The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching.” (Thomas Jefferson, 1812)

There have been two interesting articles in the past few days in the Globe and Mail about taxes in Canada.  The tone of both of these is so completely different from the tone we’ve seen from IRS.  I think this is a reflection of the greater respect CRA gives to its taxpayers–although neither article was written by CRA.

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