“The issue of a $15/hr minimum wage or a municipal income tax is not one of economic policy, philosophy, or politics. It’s poetic justice. It’s just desserts. It’s effortless vengeance. You just have to be smart enough to step out of the way and not live in a major liberal metro area when leftists get in a circular firing squad. “
Encourage them to raise it to $20 an hour. Or $50 an hour. That’s more fairerer!
Encourage the most ridiculous ideas.
Didn’t the Bolsheviks say, “The Worse, the Better!”
RD – a good start, but why not call them tightwads and go straight to $200 or $1000. Or just work them up to it.
But make sure the starting point is higher than what you think their wages are (if they work) so they’ll be putting their own job at risk. That way you can call them greedy too. 🙂
Is this actually the start of forcing them to live up to their own standards? Nah, never going to happen.
Nice rant Captain. Well said.
The sad part for us on the right is that the left keeps up this circular firing squad until the country is economically and socially destroyed and we on the right with it.
I think it is ‘just deserts’. ‘Just desserts’ is a restaurant.
Those who oppose minimum wage laws for economic reasons (bad effects on the class of those affected) should logically support maximum salary laws for the same justification. That and some other insights into the long-term effects of minimum wage laws are discussed here: https://uneducatedeconomics.wordpress.com/category/maximum-salary/
Just like Obamakkare … the $ 15.00/hr minimum wage is designed to fail. And when it fails … it can be replaced with a Universal “single payer” minimum salary for ALL Americans. The richest country in the world shouldn’t have poor and starving “Artists” struggling at the local Starbucks to make their section 8 rent copay each month ! What are we here in the home of Capitalism ? Are we heartless ? It is time to guarantee each and every American a FREE pot of money each month … along with a pot to piss in (instead of the streets of Seattle).
The problem is that these bad policies tend to migrate upward to the state/province level. Further, I like living in fairly large Metro areas like Calgary. That’s where civilization is.
The problem is that socialists, however they implement their catastrophic policies, turn EVERY land into a desert through their unrelenting and merciless greed for power, influence, and wealth on the backs of other people.
Cuba is a prime example.
Even if they have a circular firing squad, the Undead – I mean, socialists – still end up sucking the life out of a society.
Unfortunately it is not so easy to leave a Province that is doing the same stupid thing.
Ontar-I-owe is just getting worse!
If only they kept the stupid crap in the GTA!
Captcha contains CLOSE, as in close the door on the way out of broken Ontario?