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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I wouldn't be all that surprised if by the time everything is said and done that lower income people receiving the minimum wage boost will end up even further behind economically.
The NDP plan is baffling in that they're going to increase the costs of everything across the board with the Carbon Tax, minimum wage increase, business tax increase and everything else that's going to be bumped, and they think that the solution is going to be the increase in minimum wage.
The base effect is that I believe at the end of the day that those low paid workers at the bottom of the economic scale with the bosted wage will be joined by a whole new group of people that are in the mid salary wage that aren't going to see these increases but are going to see their cost of living accelerate.
This government seems more anti little guy then I could have believed. They're not going to hurt the bigger businesses because those guys will bump their prices or even decide to shutter and leave. But the small businesses are going to get squeezed on all sides.
The economic's don't make sense for a party that built its reputation around helping out the poor and down trodden.
Utility bills and food costs and gas costs don't differentiate based on income, they're equal opportunity money vaccums.
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It makes perfect sense in the NDP way of thinking , they aren't trying to help the poor or the little guy, they are trying to get them more dependent on the government.