Scott Santens

So let's say if you're a single mother and you have two kids, you could be receiving $1,000 per month.

And so for that particular situation, it looks very much like Andrew's freedom dividend.

But it goes to all households in Canada earning under a certain amount, in which case it goes to most Canadian families.

Every dollar distributed actually increases GDP by $2.

So you know that there's going to be a large economic growth impact from this, because

moving money from those you know the the those with the higher propensity you can consume are at the bottom of the income spectrum and those with the lowest are at the top those at the top are not spending on all these consumer goods that that drive the economy they're they're investing it they're they're saving it or

But it's not going into all these products that generate all this.

So we know that there's going to be a large economic growth impact from this as well, which further increases tax revenue.

But then the other thing, too, is the savings involved.

So one of the impacts in the Delphine, Manitoba study in Canada in the 1970s was a reduced hospitalization rate of 8.5%.

And through other studies, too, we know the Alaska dividend improves the birth weights of babies.

And that actually increases health of adults.

We also know from the Canadian dividend, too, that it actually reduces obesity.

And so we also know that...

There's a lot of, you know, 80 to 90% of health outcomes are actually through the social determinants of health.

It's determined by, you know, the environment.

If you're very stressed out, if you're in an impoverished environment, then, you know, you're going to get diseases at higher rates of things like, you know,

diabetes, cardiac disease, even cancer.

A lot of this comes from these poor environments.

So if you make sure that people are lifted out of these poor environments and you don't experience that stress and insecurity and instability,