[Table 5]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Pretty timely piece from the Herald on the hit business owners have taken from all levels of government and the tax increase (me not critical thinking one more time) from the city.

Its really ugly for some.

http://calgaryherald.com/business/lo...stop-piling-on

Regardless of whether minimum wage hikes have affected the ability to sustain workers at the bottom end of the salary spectrum, I'm not sure how that justifies subsidizing those that pay the salaries of those on the extreme top end.

Despite whatever else is going on, giving the Flames hundreds of millions of dollars is not going to create a "pro business" market. My small business will never get that type of treatment, and neither will anybody else. In fact, giving the Flames money just takes away City/Province revenue that will have to come from elsewhere...likely via taxes from the rest of us.