Citizens of Convenience -- a new study

[torontosm]

How are my tax dollars supporting them? They're living in Hong Kong, they aren't building up credit towards any sort of Canadian pension, and while they were going to college they were supported by their parent's tax contribution, just like all Canadian students. Of course, they could follow the Canadian-Canadian model:

1) Go to college, major in liberal arts. Contribute no tax.
2) Graduate, work in Vancouver as coffee-drink-producer. Pay no tax, income too low.
-- use medical care
-- accumulate credit towards pensions
-- contribute to degradation of infrastructure through constant skateboarding
3) Smoke a lot of pot. Play bass. Watch 40 years pass them by.
4) Retire with full pensions. Rage about immigrants stealing resources.

I'm not faulting these people for leaving or for pursuing the best opportunities they could find. My point is that it's not fair on the rest of us that we have to support them, their kids, their families, etc. when they decide to return.

Your tax dollars may not be supporting them now, but what happens when their kid decides to attend university in Canada? Who's paying for that? Not their parents. It's you and I. What happens when, at the age of 50, they want some treatment for some ailment? They move back to BC and get free healthcare. Who pays for that? Not them. It's you and I again.

Your point about pot-smoking barristas was nonsensical. Surely you don't actually believe that the entire Canadian population consists of such people.

I believe we need to move towards global taxation of all Canadian citizens. I'm sure that would remedy this problem once and for all, and suddenly, having a passport of convenience wouldn't be so attractive. Look at the number of people actually trying to surrender their US citizenship as a result of their policy in this regard.