This is an opinion essay about US and Canada joining as one country

This essay is lunacy. There are two giant populations to think about, neither of which want to annex the other. The arguements are not even fully correct, if you hadn't noticed there was a tarrif on the Canadian softwood lumber industry for the past couple of years, and where would the population spread out to; the vast nothingness that is Canada. If is a terrible essay and should not be on this site, as the arguments are not only lacking but wrong, and the real arguements that one could possibly argue non-existant.

I think the reasons given aren't very strong ones. In the second paragraph you give specific examples of only how the USA could benefit from such merging. Also, I think free trade can occur without problems without joining in one country. The statement about the reduction of taxes made me laugh; if the two countries join, the amount of taxes that need to be collected would be approximately equal to the sum of the amounts each country collects, not just to the taxes collected by the USA - therefore I don't see any reduction. In addition, I believe that some research needs to be made about the number of people who prefer warm weather and the number of people who prefer the cold. Only then you can make a valid statement that in the case of joining the population would spread evenly throughout the new country. The Euro: I am not sure whether its value rose or the value of the dollar fell because of the politics of USA. Perhaps you should compare it to some other currencies as well. Besides, the European countries did not joined as one country, so the example is somewhat irrelevant. And for dessert, a joining that did not work well - think about the Soviet Union.

I understand exactly what you mean. However, this essay was writen in under an hour and me/my class were not allowed to edit it. So, I had to work with whatever popped into my head first.