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0 pointsskeptikal3y ago0 comments

As a Canadian who’s (very) thankfully becoming American I can guarantee you that American government is very incompetent. At least in comparison to a Commonwealth one. The wait times, the level of uncaring, the general attitude was jarring when I first moved here.

I even worked as for a few years for the gov, and the bureaucracy is even worse inside!

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pkaye3y ago

The IRS support line used to be pretty good about 10 years ago. I once called their help line to to clarify some complexity in filing and they routed me to a tax specialist who knew exactly how to resolve my issue and saved me $5k vs what the tax preparer did. But since their budget has been cut back a lot so that rich people have a harder chance getting audited. So its not incompetency but a deliberate effort to weaken is powers.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-need-to-rebuil...

philliphaydon3y ago

Serious curious question. Why would you want to become American if you’re Canadian?

skeptikalOP3y ago

Ive grown to love Americans (of all walks of life) in way I have never loved the people of any other country I’ve lived in. Not even the people of my parent’s country - the loss of which I still mourn.

Canadians, Ive loved least despite having a best friend and close family.

UncleEntity3y ago

Hell, Canadians usually correct me by saying ‘Canada is in America too’ when I tell them I’m ‘Mercian.

skeptikalOP3y ago

I have never heard a Canadian say that, in fact as a (also) Latin American immigrant it was made clear to me that “Canada is not America you retard” in high school.

I agree with Latin Americans, for what its worth. USA is “United States of America” not “United States, America”. But its a useless fight. In Spanish Ill be precise.

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cesarb3y ago

> Canada is in America too

Even Brazil is in America. This is why I dislike using the term "American" when referring to US citizens, it's hopelessly ambiguous: are you talking about the country or the continent?

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pkaye3y ago

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-need-to-rebuil...

philliphaydon3y ago

Serious curious question. Why would you want to become American if you’re Canadian?

skeptikalOP3y ago

Canadians, Ive loved least despite having a best friend and close family.

UncleEntity3y ago

Hell, Canadians usually correct me by saying ‘Canada is in America too’ when I tell them I’m ‘Mercian.

skeptikalOP3y ago

I have never heard a Canadian say that, in fact as a (also) Latin American immigrant it was made clear to me that “Canada is not America you retard” in high school.

I agree with Latin Americans, for what its worth. USA is “United States of America” not “United States, America”. But its a useless fight. In Spanish Ill be precise.

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cesarb3y ago

> Canada is in America too

Even Brazil is in America. This is why I dislike using the term "American" when referring to US citizens, it's hopelessly ambiguous: are you talking about the country or the continent?

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