kpicott%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Socrates) (01/04/90)
In article <90Jan3.133311est.10773@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> tjhorton@ai.toronto.edu ("Timothy J. Horton") writes: > >All those compromises that were mentioned won't work near borders. > One thing about border towns; anyone living there has the equivalent of a higher-priced shopping center nearby and a lower-priced shopping center on the other side of "town". Of course people are going across "town" to get at the lower prices if they don't have to pay duty on the groceries. I know people who live an hour from the border who do all their major shopping in the US because it's cheaper and generally has a wider selection. (How many residents of Niagara Falls nipped across the border for that special Christmas gift not available in Canada?) This is an entirely different can of worms that we probably don't want to open (free trade, unfair competition from the US, etc...): definitely not to be confused with the Sunday shopping issue, despite what the unbiased president of A&P might say. As Timothy says, the sin tax would probably satisfy most people, but would be very hard to enforce. So would any reasonably compromise I suppose, but it would be better than the current universal dissatisfaction. -- Kevin Picott aka Socrates aka kpicott%alias@csri.toronto.edu Alias Research Inc. R+D Toronto, Ontario... like, downtown "There can be no offense where none is taken" - Japanese proverb "There can be no offense unless one insists on taking it" - more explicit occidental version? (credited to Gerard Stafleu)