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Originally Posted by Tinordi
What if Ontario 100 years ago said that all tax remittances by Ontarians have to be cycled back to Ontario?
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That's how it mostly was, as governments were much smaller back and income tax only started due to WW1. Prior to that, federal revenues consisted mainly of tariffs on imports.
It's even argued that the policies then favored the development of the economies of Ontario/Quebec vs the agricultural and commodities economies of the rest of Canada because the high tariff meant that Canadians had to buy mostly Canadian made goods and the lack of free trade made selling commodities to other countries harder.