Wynneing!

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1. Fundamental law of physics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Typical of socialists, they let ideology get in the way of common sense. They’re just plain stupid. See: Cuba, Venezuela, et al.

   1. FYI, Newton’s Third Law.

2. The Law of Unintended Consequences?

   1. Not sure about the Unintended in this case. Progtards want things to not work so they can justify imposing more “progressive” change. (Not saying there aren’t supporters dumb enough to believe some of these things would work as claimed.)

      1. See my comment below regarding creation of day-care unionized government jobs.

3. I read the Red Star so you don’t have to (kinda enjoying it, actually): every day, “top of the fold”, there is a new story of how Ford is dismantling her legacy. Today:

   – Doug Ford halts introduction of additional anti-vaping rules
   – Premier Doug Ford puts new police oversight laws on hold
   – Doug Ford freezes salaries of public service managers, orders review of executive pay
   – Doug Ford aims to lower gas prices by ending Ontario’s cap-and-trade of carbon dioxide emissions
   – Price cap on ticket resales delayed by new Premier Doug Ford

4. I owned a restaurant in BC back in the 90’s when we were hit with a mere 25 cent raise in the minimum wage.

   Even that amount was a nasty hit in such a competitive, tight-margin industry. Most everyone got fewer hours, and as a working owner, I was left to take up the slack. These leftist political hacks don’t have a freaking clue when it comes to real life and basic survival, when you don’t have the luxury of a taxpayer funded trough to gorge from, that is.

5. speaking of “economic illiteracy” , were is unDork on this????

   1. Do you mean UnEmployed? In the bar spending his welfare cheque?

6. It’s going to take more than a new broom to sweep out the mess left by Wynne and her wrecking crew.

7. This is not a bug – it’s a feature.
   They want more people dependent on government handouts, AKA slaves.

   1. No, I think they want all jobs to be well paid, government jobs. Many Canadians are in their hearts (which grows ‘out’) communists. Which is what I tell Americans, when they ask about our politics.

      1. “…they want all jobs to be well paid, government jobs. …”

         I.e. people dependent on government handouts.

         Consider how many government employees are doing work that if it were in the private sector, wouldn’t have customers voluntarily buying that “service.” Then consider whether the rest of the government provided services would be performed to the necessary level of efficiency (i.e. profitable) if commercial enterprises were providing those services for customers who took them up voluntarily, paying with their own money. And then look at the latter list of services and consider whether the government could compete for those customers if it didn’t use its power to reserve those markets for its own monopoly.

8. Socialists believe that NO private business should be allowed to survive. Look at any past or present socialist country, and even the government run companies can’t survive. The only reason VW and Lada survive today is because Germany lost WW2 and the USSR dissolved in 1991.

9. The Frankfurt School operatives have done their work in Canada well.

10. A minimum wage is so wrong-headed.

    Better to allow wages to float according to the market – allowing young, low-skilled/experienced workers to get both as well as disabled workers to get meaningful activity. Then top them up if they have dependent(s) or disabled needs.

    But that would expose the left for what their real agenda is: to provide a higher wage floor benchmark for unions to bargain against. this has nothing to do with providing all workers with a “living wage”.

    1. Agreed. Minimum wage legislation interferes with the market and every time Big Government interferes, they phuck it all up. Unions will also use inflation as a negotiating tool and the wage increase is a huge price/cost inflator across the spectrum.

    2. I would like to agree Gord but allowing unskilled immigrants into your country kind of kills the floating market idea.

    3. Gord, minimum wage increases increase tax in take, even if some jobs are lost. Buys votes from LIVs and as you say, unions.
       Most people are to stupid and uninformed to figure that out, and butt hurt when you point it out to them!

11. What’s sad is that economists are one-armed on this issue, viz., there’s no ‘on the other hand.’. Minimum wage laws are destructive.

    But the great Frederick Bastiat had the key observation: the ‘what is seen’ vs. ‘what is unseen.’ Pols can readily point to the people they “helped”. The damaged are not as visible and the damage is diffused throughout the economy.

    Same deal with tariffs most of the time.

12. …consumer prices for child care and housekeeping increased by 10.6% for the eight months ending April 2018. Higher child care prices not only make life more expensive for many families with children, it also means a lower quantity demanded of child care, and of child care workers.
    There’s the plan. Force the private day care to cose and make way for government unionized jobs.
    Given the impact on restaurants, can we look forward to government run restaurants, NAAFI style I suppose.

13. Big Government will even phuck over retards in their pursuit of control.

14. Relatives own a seasonal business that hires min wage university and college kids over the summer. They are kind of proud of that as they are recent grads themselves. The number of min wage workers they hire is determined by a spreadsheet. Total expected revenue over the summer determines the total budget for min wage hours. Divide by the hourly wage and round the result to get the number of min wage workers you can afford to hire. Changing the hourly rate to $14.00 eliminated 2 people, They also stopped overtime. Why? Because they’re running a “for-profit” business.

15. Gone?

    Are Kathleen and the rest of the pervert mafia in prison, and the keys thrown away?

    Has the Ontario Liberal Party been de-registered and its assets confiscated?

    Then she, and the Ontario Liberals, are not gone.

16. Reveals the so-called progressives for what they are – hacks who see no problem in getting disabled people fired to benefit their union masters. Scum.

    1. That about says it. Shameful.

17. And yet, many leftists refuse to recognize this. I am appalled at anyone who suggests that businesses who cannot afford this should not be in business. It is outrageous. If they go out of business, everyone working for them also suffers. In many contexts, a low paying job is better than no job. Interestingly, all those union types and politicians making these comments and poor decisions have never provided a job for anyone else in their lives.