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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
This is certainly a much better way to go. Raising the minimum wage to $15 won't necessarily make anyone richer if the cost of living increases as well.
The political optics are good though. It looks better to say "we have helped Albertans by raising the min. wage to $15" vs getting into details on nitty gritty social programs which actually benefit disparaged individuals or families under selective criteria.
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And see, this is where I get lost because I'm not a Poli-Sci major, I really am not interested in the 'Political Optics' of it. Are they actually trying to help people or not? Or is it as simple as 'make it look good so we get votes'?
Raising the minimum wage was certainly an easier way of doing it, but at the same time if all of the costs go up correspondingly or even more then they've hurt this demographic more than they've helped them and political optics are all well and good until these people realize that they just got screwed in a political shell-game and those potential votes will dry up rather quickly.
So back to the question of: Are they actually trying to help low-income families or are they just trying to set themselves up for the next election?
Because if its the former then they're incompetent, and if its the latter then...well, they're incompetent. All roads are sort of leading to Rome here.