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Minimum wage and reality in Canada
Sunnewsnetwork ^ | 2014/01/29 | BillM

Posted on 01/29/2014 5:41:58 AM PST by BillM

Fact, fiction and the minimum wage

January 28, 2014 22:16

Brian Lilley debunks the myth that a higher minimum wage is a good thing. Like many progressive ideas this one is sold to you not with facts, but with emotion, and it actually hurts the people it intends to help.

The real story!

(Excerpt) Read more at sunnewsnetwork.ca ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: minimumwage
He says it all!
1 posted on 01/29/2014 5:41:58 AM PST by BillM
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To: BillM

The intention is to drive more people into government dependence.


2 posted on 01/29/2014 5:46:10 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: BillM
...and it actually hurts the people it intends to help.

No, it doesn't--it is not intended to help lower wage earners. It is intended to help democrats get votes.

3 posted on 01/29/2014 5:46:12 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: BillM

Take away their free healthcare, see how he feels about it then.


4 posted on 01/29/2014 5:47:47 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: ShadowAce

It also is a payoff to unions whose contracts provide for raises when the minimum wage goes up.


5 posted on 01/29/2014 5:48:30 AM PST by yawningotter
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To: ShadowAce

Correctamundo! It’s all for votes and succeeds because our public school system, like yours, is used for indoctrination, not education.

Sun News is amazing.


6 posted on 01/29/2014 5:50:39 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: yawningotter

Amen to that


7 posted on 01/29/2014 5:53:53 AM PST by gattaca (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes10:2)
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To: BillM

Thanks for posting Sun News!

Brian, Ezra, Michael....they DO say it all!


8 posted on 01/29/2014 5:54:56 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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9 posted on 01/29/2014 5:59:03 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ShadowAce
--No, it doesn't--it is not intended to help lower wage earners. It is intended to help democrats get votes.

It's also designed to raise union wages.

10 posted on 01/29/2014 6:02:30 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: BillM

Name the deadly sin that raising the minimum wage appeals to.


11 posted on 01/29/2014 6:03:26 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: BillM

I have contacts out on the Alberta Oil Patch who tell me Tim Hortons is hiring clerks at $25/hr. CDN. Cause in a booming market, that’s what the current market rate is.


12 posted on 01/29/2014 6:27:39 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Is the Law of Demand really that difficult to understand? Raise the price, quantity demanded will fall. Until they pass a law ending scarcity, I’m afraid we are stuck with this painful reality that the “Reality Based Community” can’t quite grasp.


13 posted on 01/29/2014 6:30:50 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: fella

Sloth.


14 posted on 01/29/2014 6:32:19 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: yawningotter

Not only that but as I learned in Econ 101. Minimum wage keeps union members employed. Say a skilled union member costs $10/hr. and say you would need 4 unskilled laborers to be as productive as the member. So in an unregulated market you might pay them $2/hr you come out ahead but if you have a minimum wage of $3/hr then you lose money so you just keep the union guy.


15 posted on 01/29/2014 6:35:03 AM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: BillM

Raising the minimum wage serves three purposes.
1. It buys votes.
2. It gives a boost in wages for the coming hyper inflation.
3. Generates more tax revenue.

At least that’s the tards point of view.


16 posted on 01/29/2014 6:35:06 AM PST by Slambat
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To: BillM

No he has it wrong...the rich business owners can just give up some of their big profits to pay the little guys. (sarcasm) Bless my mother-in-law she actually believes this, but she is also only one of the 37 people who actually watch MSNBC.


17 posted on 01/29/2014 7:07:47 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: fella

Coveting thy neighbor’s wage.


18 posted on 01/29/2014 7:28:49 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Wolfie

where did you get the idea that health care in Canada is free...the average Canadian pays $6000.00 annually for health coverage...


19 posted on 01/29/2014 9:08:42 AM PST by albertabound
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To: albertabound

In taxes... sure, so “free” is certainly in quotes. And $6,000 with no deductibles and no cap is a bargain for sure. My point is, without socialized healthcare, the Canadian economic landscape changes drastically. With socialized healthcare, there’s really no way to compare it to the U.S.


20 posted on 01/29/2014 9:11:27 AM PST by Wolfie
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