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Originally Posted by PoscStudent
I think we could easily manage to have 11 heads of state for less the $50 million a year. Elections could be held during general elections so the cost would be virtually nothing extra and there is no reason for them to live the lifestyles they do now. We'd need to spend roughly $5 million a year for each head of state to equal the cost of what we pay for the monarchy. They also don't need to be elected.
Personally I don't care if we keep the monarchy or not but we could find cost savings in doing so.
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I doubt that very much. If you go through the Monarchist League's accounting of the costs of monarchy, you quickly discover that pretty much all the same costs would exist with republican equivalents, if not more so depending on their nature (i.e. elected officials will tend to cost more than unelected ones).
http://monarchist.ca/en/cost-of-the-crown
Cost is frankly a red herring.