If you ' ve got a friend shooting Canon and you enjoy a Canon you ' ve handled , go for it . There ' s really no clearcut better option until you get into higherend models and , even then , it depends on what you shoot . In the world of entrylevel dSLRs , it ' s mostly about personal preference and access . Having a buddy you can borrow lenses from is a big deal , just starting out . And Canon has great deals on less expensive lenses . Their newest nifty 50 , 1018 i believe it is and their little 40 mm pancake lens are all under $ 4500 and are worth having . <| sep |> The employer pays the taxes . Not the employees . That ' s the point . You can ' t trace the taxes back to the source because it never ends . Employers pay taxes from revenue generated by employees who sell items and services to customers who get the money to pay for items and services from their employers or customers . So how many people are contributing to those taxes , again ? Basically everyone . You draw the line at the payer . The company paying property tax is the taxpayer . Not their employees and not their customers . If you reduced property taxes for companies it would only mean the company is keeping more money . Employees would not be entitled to a raise and customers would not be entitled to a discount . They would keep makingspending the same amount . The company is the taxpayer .