You're right, that line doesn't make sense, although not for the reason that you are giving. It doesn't really matter if you spend your raise or not. If you pu

You're right, that line doesn't make sense, although not for the reason that you are giving. It doesn't really matter if you spend your raise or not. If you put your raise in the bank, the bank will spend it by either lending out more money or investing it. For the same reason, for the economy it doesn't matter much if the company spends its money on employees or on shareholders.