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Minimum wage doesn’t work


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Except it works.  Ours went from 11.25 to 14.  Everyone claimed all the fast food places would fire their staff.  Inside of six months they all had help wanted signs up everywhere.  You see, if people near poverty get more money they spend it locally, they have no choice. Give another million to the ceo and it gets hidden in offshore tax schemes. 

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certain areas can definitely afford a higher minimum wage.  Other areas, not so much.  The reason we're a federalist system is because regional control is better-equipped to govern closer to the governed.  Federal minimum wage is the wrong way to do this and is probably only constitutional on a technicality.

I'm all for states and municipalities setting their own rules on this.

15/hr in a decent metro area isn't gonna hurt anything.  They just opened a new Aldi by us and even offering 16/hour they can't manage to get anywhere near their staffing needs.

But in backwater Mississippi, a 15/hr wage would be tough.

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1 hour ago, 1trailmaker said:

Ours (Ontario) went to $14 an hour and it was going to kill jobs but what happened was record employment never seen in over 50 years 

Funny fast food didn't go up 100% like claimed was going to happen

How many people do you employ?

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6 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Do you drink coffee?

None eh? It’s obvious you’ve never started, financed, run or attempted to grow a business, you’ve never paid workers comp insurance, quarterly taxes, business insurance, commercial property taxes, never had to make a payroll , you’ve never worked months without any pay while trying to build the business.  (but your employees and expenses have to be paid) 

In short you’ve never been responsible for anyone but yourself but you feel qualified to tell actual business owners how the business should operate and how the profit should be distributed.

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1 hour ago, CFM said:

That would be great. How about other towns and how about very rural areas ?

sure can

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410029401&pickMembers[0]=2.5&pickMembers[1]=3.1&pickMembers[2]=4.1&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=01&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2019&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=12&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2019&referencePeriods=20190101%2C20191201

 

Windsor has issues and always have had higher unemployment compared to the rest of the Province

Most cities towns are at 5% in 2019 keeping covid numbers out of it, Ontario growth in the past 6 years has been very good.  Many cities have under 5% unemployment which is considered full employment when you don't count 16 years old kids 

 

 

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55 minutes ago, Matt said:

certain areas can definitely afford a higher minimum wage.  Other areas, not so much.  The reason we're a federalist system is because regional control is better-equipped to govern closer to the governed.  Federal minimum wage is the wrong way to do this and is probably only constitutional on a technicality.

I'm all for states and municipalities setting their own rules on this.

15/hr in a decent metro area isn't gonna hurt anything.  They just opened a new Aldi by us and even offering 16/hour they can't manage to get anywhere near their staffing needs.

But in backwater Mississippi, a 15/hr wage would be tough.

Ours are Provincially done

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2 minutes ago, Sleepr2 said:

None eh? It’s obvious you’ve never started, financed, run or attempted to grow a business, you’ve never paid workers comp insurance, quarterly taxes, business insurance, commercial property taxes, never had to make a payroll , you’ve never worked months without any pay while trying to build the business.  (but your employees and expenses have to be paid) 

In short you’ve never been responsible for anyone but yourself but you feel qualified to tell actual business owners how the business should operate and how the profit should be distributed.

:lol:  okay 

What does that have to do with the stats?  

not very bright

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1 minute ago, 1trailmaker said:

:lol:  okay 

What does that have to do with the stats?  

not very bright

It has to do with morons like you making decisions on things you’re completely ignorant of. 
 

You’ve already been shown to be the dumbest fool on the net. 

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On 1/29/2021 at 12:14 PM, 1trailmaker said:

sure can

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410029401&pickMembers[0]=2.5&pickMembers[1]=3.1&pickMembers[2]=4.1&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=01&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2019&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=12&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2019&referencePeriods=20190101%2C20191201

 

Windsor has issues and always have had higher unemployment compared to the rest of the Province

Most cities towns are at 5% in 2019 keeping covid numbers out of it, Ontario growth in the past 6 years has been very good.  Many cities have under 5% unemployment which is considered full employment when you don't count 16 years old kids 

 

 

People don’t realize that a low minimum wage is a form of corporate welfare .  The businesses download the cost living for their employees to the taxpayer.  A Walmart moves in and you have to increase affordable housing and the food bank. 

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15 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

People don’t realize that a low minimum wage is a form of corporate welfare .  The businesses download the cost living for their employees to the taxpayer.  A Walmart moves in and you have to increase affordable housing and the food bank. 

People that are born with silver spoons and have businesses they didn’t have to create don't realize what’s involved. 

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3 minutes ago, Sleepr2 said:

People that are born with silver spoons and have businesses they didn’t have to create don't realize what’s involved. 

You mean like Lying Donald Trump?  You spent a lot of time cheerleading and pretending he was a brilliant businessman. 

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21 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

People don’t realize that a low minimum wage is a form of corporate welfare .  The businesses download the cost living for their employees to the taxpayer.  A Walmart moves in and you have to increase affordable housing and the food bank. 

The same is true of waiters and waitresses. They earn a minimum wage of 5.00 with zero benefits. The business owners rely on the government to keep them healthy. 

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1 minute ago, revkevsdi said:

You mean like Lying Donald Trump?  You spent a lot of time cheerleading and pretending he was a brilliant businessman. 

Link to one post where I said he was a brilliant businessman.and then try and wrap your mommasboy brain around the fact that all I do is point out leftists hypocrisy, that’s not “cheerleading “ for trump, it’s laughing at you.

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