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Originally Posted by Tinordi
I truly love the certainty of self central to most of these augments against raising the minimum wage. It's almost like iggy oi is arguing against the second law of thermodynamics to some of you.
Except the scholarship on the impact of the minimum wage is anything but. Any self professed economist would begin by acknowledging that the research is very open to interpretation.
A cup of humility and greater inquiry for some of you would do this conversation well.
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Sure. Except...the NDP have, without equivocation or exception, indicated that the minimum wage hike will have 'no effect on Alberta's economy.'
Now, thats strong terminology. You can look that up in your Dictionary. It means 'Nothing is going to happen."
Now, if that were the case whats the point in doing it? No one does a thing for no reason. Well...I'm sure Flash will inform us that raising minimum wage will generate 'Political Capital' which is more than all the Capital any of us will ever need.
Anyways, If they meant 'no
adverse effect on Alberta's economy' then that would be a statement worth noting, but it also means something. If the economy tanks they can still point to poor oil prices but now they've done just one more of their litany of actions to make things worse.
But they assured us it would have no effect. It was just going to make things better by
literally not changing anything. It was going to make things better by...well...magic apparently.
Before you return your thesaurus for a full refund (which you wont get now that its been used, presumably in a bookstore bathroom) I recommend you do some reading.