

To be clear, we’ve been reluctant to connect through America for a while. It’s just too much hassle and risk of getting a TSA droid on a bad day and missing a flight because of some guy’s ego. So we often go around.
I watched the second tower fall with my own eyes. I was so ground-zero in the weeks following that I get PTSD from the nuts4nuts carts. I suffered troopies on the MTA platforms, thankful I profiled ‘harmless’.
But America has been Too Much for about a decade. If I was going to Atlanta or Queens, okay. I’m not even connecting through LA, though, otherwise; and never, now. And YYZ burns brain cells, but that’s where we are.
The tax rate is never the issue. If the gov can push through a responsible plan for spending our consolidated resources so it costs less than we’d need to pay separately, then it’s a win. Fuckwit conservatives talk a about reducing taxes and conveniently omit how they’ll reduce costs to match. Hint: Here, it’s always food inspectors and anti-corruption.