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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Certainly it's not as black and white as I made it out to be. But there is no question as to whether there would be more economic benefit to Alberta by building needed infrastructure than to give every person $300 every year. The dollars to build infrastructure would mostly stay in Province, and nearly all in country. However, a significant portion of rebate cheques would end up outside our country very quickly.
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You have no basis for this claim. You just assume that eveyone will specifically buy something imported like an iphone and it will only pad apple's bottom line. It's probably fairer to expect that it will be spent much like any other earned dollar Albertans make, which is on pretty much everything from locally provided goods and services to imported goods and services. Yes there is leakage outside the country, but so too would be the implements into infrastructure costs.