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Four hundred dollars, for free!
2005-09-21, 8:51 PM #1
That's right! The province of Alberta is giving every man, woman and child $400.00
for doing nothing before the end of this year :D... Thing is, I don't know why just yet..
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2005-09-21, 8:52 PM #2
so that's what? $5 US? :p
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2005-09-21, 8:53 PM #3
DIE :mad:
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2005-09-21, 8:53 PM #4
SHARE THE WEALTH

2005-09-21, 8:53 PM #5
It's really just a plot to kill more baby seals and puppies and kittens (I could do without cats though)
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2005-09-21, 8:54 PM #6
Um. When does the government give regular people free money?
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2005-09-21, 8:55 PM #7
Maybe they'll get charged 105% tax on it.

2005-09-21, 8:57 PM #8
YAY FOR REBATE! i don't even pay taxes..and i get 400 bucks free! trouble is my parents will probably take it...***************
2005-09-21, 8:58 PM #9
What exactly are all the babies going to do with 400 dollars?
2005-09-21, 9:00 PM #10
Ha. Stupid Albertans. You have to do nothing for the rest of the year, but, by claiming your money, you're doing something. Ha.
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2005-09-21, 9:02 PM #11
Bah, you have yet to learn the art of leeching off the WSIB. I'm still getting paid for my arm injury even though I've been in school for three weeks...

Actually I told them I was going back to school and wasn't going to be working anymore anyways, and they said they would still pay me until the doctor said I was fit to go back to work... whether or not that was after the time I would have been done work in the first place. Kinda weird.
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2005-09-21, 9:38 PM #12
Originally posted by Echoman:
Um. When does the government give regular people free money?


Never. Klien just wants more popularety.. Our surplus is now like four billion or so, and insted of pumping money into health care, education, ect, ect. He just tought "Ah, what the hell? I'll just throw money at these people and see if they like me more."
All is fair in love and war.
2005-09-21, 9:47 PM #13
Buy 400 cups of coffee!
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2005-09-21, 9:49 PM #14
I want $400 for nothing.
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2005-09-21, 9:51 PM #15
Originally posted by money•bie:
What exactly are all the babies going to do with 400 dollars?


Nothing. It goes to the parents. IE. The head of every household gets sent a cheque for 400.00 for every person in the house hold. It is then thier choice to do whatever they want with it, (like choose if they want the kids to have it or not, or to save it or something... My mother wants me to save it :()
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2005-09-21, 10:32 PM #16
Im in Alberta, how do I get this money?
2005-09-21, 11:01 PM #17
I'm not in Alberta, how do I get this money?
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2005-09-21, 11:08 PM #18
Originally posted by Diego:
Never. Klien just wants more popularety.. Our surplus is now like four billion or so, and insted of pumping money into health care, education, ect, ect. He just tought "Ah, what the hell? I'll just throw money at these people and see if they like me more."

I would consider it to be a tax break of sorts-- even if you don't pay canadian income tax I'm willing to bet that you still have paid sales tax at least once in your life. (I don't know how much your sales tax up there is, but ours is 8.25% here in Los Angeles county, and I think that I'm getting screwed.)


If I lived in Canada was was taxed half to death because of it, I would rather get some of my money back instead of having it go to fund public services.

And yes, I am a Republican.
2005-09-21, 11:52 PM #19
Originally posted by Diego:
Never. Klien just wants more popularety.. Our surplus is now like four billion or so, and insted of pumping money into health care, education, ect, ect. He just tought "Ah, what the hell? I'll just throw money at these people and see if they like me more."

You sure he's not an American politician?

Edit: 8.25% up in L.A.? They have their own sales tax? I'm still dishing out 7.75%
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2005-09-22, 12:26 AM #20
8.75% for me up here.
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2005-09-22, 4:31 AM #21
Originally posted by Impi:
I'm not in Alberta, how do I get this money?

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2005-09-22, 5:18 AM #22
Sales tax is the 7% GST in Alberta. They don't have a provincial sales tax, like the other provinces, since they're so god-damned rich that they don't need one. :mad:
2005-09-22, 5:59 AM #23
Originally posted by Overlord:
Im in Alberta, how do I get this money?


Watch the news :P... It will be sent to your parents (Or you, depending on if you pay the taxes and what not..) before the end of this year.
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2005-09-22, 6:09 AM #24
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2005-09-22, 6:25 AM #25
Sales tax is like the VAT we have here right?
*Does the Britassian "You Americans/Canadians have no right to complain we pay blah blah blah" thing*
It's 17.5% here
2005-09-22, 6:29 AM #26
Sales tax is whatever percent on the dollar you pay when you buy something. Like something for 1.00 is 1.07 (For me and my 7% GST) But 17.5%?! Ouch.
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2005-09-22, 6:51 AM #27
Alberta is too rich :((

Alberta gets horses and oil. Ontario get's smog and heat.
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2005-09-22, 6:59 AM #28
Originally posted by mscbuck:
It's really just a plot to kill more baby seals and puppies and kittens (I could do without cats though)
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2005-09-22, 7:45 AM #29
Originally posted by Recusant:
Sales tax is like the VAT we have here right?
*Does the Britassian "You Americans/Canadians have no right to complain we pay blah blah blah" thing*
It's 17.5% here


Dang, I wanted to silence them all with our 16% tax, but you silly Brits always have to be more expensive!
But it's possible, that it will be raised in the next four years.

Fortunately the tax on books is only 8%.
Sorry for the lousy German
2005-09-22, 8:34 AM #30
it's like living in alaska. my guess is they'll be doing this every year until the money runs out. which will be for infinity. they have a trillion barrels of oil in oil sands. the price of oil will continue to rise.
2005-09-22, 9:03 AM #31
Originally posted by DrkJedi82:
so that's what? $5 US? :p

That joke makes no sense anymore. Canadian money is hardly worthless at all. 400 dollars canadian is about 350 dollars american...not much difference.
2005-09-22, 11:38 AM #32
[QUOTE=Raoul Duke]That joke makes no sense anymore. Canadian money is hardly worthless at all. 400 dollars canadian is about 350 dollars american...not much difference.[/QUOTE]

No use trying to reason, just let the silly American feel bigger than the Canadian.

I am really sick of that joke, too. To think that our dollar was once much stronger than the American dollar as well.
2005-09-22, 11:51 AM #33
Originally posted by Avenger:
I want $400 for nothing.


It's not nothing. It was their money in the first place, before they gave it to the government!
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2005-09-22, 4:01 PM #34
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:rolleyes:
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2005-09-22, 4:24 PM #35
Ah, a socialist tax return.

It's still better than giving the money to Quebec though.

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