From June 2024 through May 2025 it is estimated that Alberta paid $76.B in federal taxes including; personal, corporate, GST, and payroll. That works out to $15,500.00 per person.
In return Alberta will receive $35.6B in federal services and transfers including; Canada Health Transfers (CHT), Canada Social Transfer (CST), Employment Insurance (EI), and Canada Pension Plan (CPP). That works out to $7,417.00 per person. Net contribution to the rest of Canada; a whopping $41.2B!
Based on the above financial tidbit, just for fun (and in all seriousness) we asked Gemini AI to write a 40 word paragraph about “paying more than twice as much for something than you get back in return” and we received the following response:
Paying twice the value for something means you’re getting a bad deal, plain and simple. It’s like throwing your hard-earned money into a bottomless pit, receiving far less in return than what you put in. Always research an item’s true worth to avoid such a significant loss.
We find it rather hard to argue against “the AI”. It sounds like researching an item’s true worth to avoid further loss would be a good idea for some of us, and for others, not so much.