Here’s an interesting article that came out last week with
the title: “Campaigners push Liberals for $15 minimum wage in Ontario”: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/15-minimum-wage-ontario-1.3940676?cmp=rss
There's so much wrong with this article's content and how it
was written. It's 3 articles in one:
Minimum Wage increase, Social Justice and some Basic Income thrown in at the
end for good measure. I'm not sure if Mr
Crawley from the CBC has ADD or tries to get paid by the word.
After reading this multi-layered "awareness"
article, I'm still not exactly clear on how $15 an hour equals fairness like
the supporters' logo reads. But Fairness
for who
Let's look at the wage increase first and see where things
will go wrong:
Once minimum wage goes up, so does everything else. I guess that's fair in some respects. A couple of months ago went minimum wage went
up to $11.40 an hour, what did Silver City do?
Increased their ticket prices to compensate for their employee's wage
increase. And they're not the only ones
to raise their prices. It ends up being
that no one comes out ahead and things are relatively the same as before the
hike. Do you think Universities are
going to lower tuition? Not when everyone’s
going to be making $15 an hour.
Cigarettes will finally be $15 a pack, since the price of a pack of
cigarettes has always been relative to minimum wage (sorry, the Government
doesn't want you to quit). Do you think
your Hydro bill won't increase or your Bell/Cogeco/Rogers bills will still stay
the same?
Another point is most people will strive, or want, to make
more than Minimum Wage and this will destroy that. Here's a good one: Person A works hard at their job and as a
result, already makes $15 an hour; 4 more dollars an hour over minimum. If minimum wage goes up to $15 an hour, do
you think Person A is still going to make 4 more dollars than minimum? So all that extra effort and hard work
basically means nothing. The person that
works hard for the extra is now in the same league as a lazy shithead who
doesn't want to work as much and expect the same. Rewards for the bad, punishment for the good. That's the message this carries. And chances are, Person A is going to think,
"Why the hell am I going to slug it out when I don't have to? I quit."
A $15 Minimum Wage devalues the currency and what the worth
of work is. And it's just pricing
unskilled labour out of a potential job.
Let's say you own a small business, would you hire 2 people at $10 an
hour or hire 1 person at $15 an hour and be short staffed? We already saw what the last Minimum Wage
increase did at McDonalds: they now have self-serve kiosks. There's more return on investment and the
orders are correct. And less workers.
Next, let's look at the Social Justice aspect of this. Ugh, Social Justice.
It's obvious that Pam Frache (provincial co-ordinator of the
group Fight for $15 & Fairness) didn't take Economics 101 or tried to start
a small business of her own. She'd make
a great MPP. Her comment of "This
government has committed to a social justice agenda, to a decent work
agenda" is half right. The
government is so committed to Social Justice (the term is an oxymoron anyways)
that it hasn't done anything properly in years. The SJ agenda
doesn't work and it never will since it's fundamentally flawed. Equality of Outcome is not a good plan. If
you really want to live in a socialist society, go somewhere else and stop
trying to ruin things for the majority of us normal people.
Anyways, her following quote of "Ontarians have high
expectations that this government is going to do the right thing" leaves
me scratching my head too. The current Premier
has a lower approval rating than Charlie Manson. Pam, people do not have high expectations of
the current Ontario government because it's well-known they're a bloated joke
and Social Justice is one reason why the GOO won't win the next election. And the NDP are just as useless. Hopefully, the winners of the next election
will make some amendments to the anti-democratic Ontario Human Rights Code (or
just get rid of it).
But Social Justice, as retarded as it is, doesn't have
anything to do with a wage increase.
"Figures from Statistics Canada show that 9.2 per cent
of Ontario's workforce — some 540,000 people — earn minimum wage. The
campaigners estimate that nearly 1.5 million workers in the province earn less
than $15 an hour." I'll take my
info from Stats Canada over people holding up signs claiming to be
victims. I guess the good news is that
the other 90% of the workforce is currently making better than minimum
wage. (If you did a Population divided
by the 1.5 million, it's pretty close to 9 percent, but the total population
isn't the entire workforce.)
Then the article ends on trying to conflate Basic Income
with Minimum Wage.
Trust me, I don't mind a social safety net, but that's what
it should be - a last resort. Basic
income is just welfare with a different name because it's not PC to call it
Welfare anymore (Custodial Engineer, anyone?).
The government's role is to protect its citizens, not bail out people
who are poor with money (using money from people who are good with money) and
make them lazier. Some of this could
have been avoided last Provincial election but Tim Hudak was such an idiot he
confused "less government" with "I'll lay-off so-many-thousand
civil servants". Or he got bought
out. Either way, he's still an idiot.
This is one poorly written article putting 3 unnecessary and
unrelated things together. Anyways,
raising minimum wage this much and this fast is only going to cause
problems. We'll see how this plays out
but it won't be for the best.
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