"Ralph bucks" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Ralph Klein, who was premier of Alberta when the payment was issued.",
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          "ref": "2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care), Knopf Canada, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 158",
          "text": "The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund. When they need votes, they buy them. The $1.3 billion in \"Ralph Bucks\" dished out in 2005 to Albertans in $400 cheques is only the latest example.",
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          "ref": "2016, Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, University of Alberta Press, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 205",
          "text": "The so-called Ralph bucks, named for then-premier Ralph Klein, though much derided by critics as an attempt to buy the electorate with their own money, could also be read as a populist attempt to include the population in the windfall profits the government was then reaping from the sale of oil leases and royalties.",
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        "A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus."
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        "(Canada, politics) A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus."
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        "Prosperity Bonus",
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  "word": "Ralph bucks"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Ralph Klein, who was premier of Alberta when the payment was issued.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "English uncountable nouns",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care), Knopf Canada, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 158",
          "text": "The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund. When they need votes, they buy them. The $1.3 billion in \"Ralph Bucks\" dished out in 2005 to Albertans in $400 cheques is only the latest example.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, University of Alberta Press, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 205",
          "text": "The so-called Ralph bucks, named for then-premier Ralph Klein, though much derided by critics as an attempt to buy the electorate with their own money, could also be read as a populist attempt to include the population in the windfall profits the government was then reaping from the sale of oil leases and royalties.",
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        "A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus."
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          "Albertan",
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        "(Canada, politics) A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus."
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        "Prosperity Bonus",
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