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Old 04-14-2013, 09:20 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
Wait, if we paid out 10,000 to lets say 25 million Canadians wouldn't it come out to $250,000,000,000?, in as you put it a combination of program and cash.

Canada spends half of that per person federally on health care alone.

What it sounds like your proposing is the tax free exmption level actually becomes a check and people can decide what services they use?
It actually does work a lot like the basic personal exemption, yeah.

As far as cost goes, it would replace a bunch of existing programs so it wouldn't be $250B in new spending. You could probably play around with the tax code so that for most people you're not changing their net income.
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