Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Is boosting minimum wage enough to offset the rising cost of living?" video.

  1. And that's a good thing. Everyone has the right to be free to make as much as their skills/talent/luck/etc. will allow.
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  2. How about abolish income tax as after all, it was supposed to be temporary?
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  3. Big electricity is provincially-owned and run.
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  4. It worked for Venezuela. LOL
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  5. <and the government will do zip.> Except tax you more.
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  6.  @trevorhamilton9574  Like what Venezuela had?
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  7.  @trevorhamilton9574  Only to be greeted with empty store shelves and a currency good for being toilet paper.
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  8.  @Jayjay-ji7ty  But everyone wants to be a white-collar worker or get paid like one.
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  9. LOL. Did it solve Venezuela's societal problems?
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  10. Australia already has that and also cost-of-living issues.
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  11.  @briguy677  So? Your nephew's father's friend is free to hire whoever he wants. Your nephew would fall under the luck part.
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  12.  @acaciomadeira5147  Public transit is not that reliable, though unless you live near a subway station or a (semi) major bus route.
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  13.  @sabsab377  No. Government greed and market over-regulation caused this mess.
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  14.  @happydappyman  Which comes right back to government policy.
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  15. The current ruling Liberal Party is the ultimate problem.
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  16. If the minimum wage should be $20-23/hour, you better not complain when that 1 lbs of Eversweet butter end up costing $14.98 to compensate.
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  17.  @josephd.5524  Norway is on the higher end in living costs.
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  18. That's just going to end up costing you in the long run.
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  19. That's how it's done in Cuba.
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  20.  @friendsandfamily100  Before WW2, income tax didn't exist.
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  21. But the government can't, because there are too many people depending on them for their survival and livelihoods (social assistance-recipients, pensioners and public/state-sector employees.)
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  22.  @darrenporter1850  Maduro made the average Venezuelan a 6-figure earner, though.
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  23.  @darrenporter1850  Exactly.
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  24.  @tombottle8041  Um. No. Most minimum wage workers work for small and medium business.
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  25. Grocery chains are charging extra, because it's costing them extra to get the merchandise in the stores due to the carbon and fuel taxes imposed on their suppliers and producers.
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  26.  @madguitarist  <Tax the rich Tax big businesses. Tax landlords, slumlords, realtors, bankers, and property management firms more and proportionally to the rate of inflation. Make post-secondary education publicly funded and eliminate student loan debt. Most of all...pump money into small business, EI, CPP, disability, and veteran support programs.> Taxing the rich hurts the poor in the long run especially when there's no more rich to tax.
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  27.  @madguitarist  <Billionaires hoarding more money than they circulate is bad for the economy.> But governments hoarding it is even worse.
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  28.  @josephd.5524  , <it's the CEOs and Landlords who don't do any work who still want all the money.> Because they own the business/property. Plus, their position entail way more responsibility than the average worker/tenant and don't work the standard 8-hour day/40-hour week.
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  29.  @j.w.2391  But the Harper Conservative did. Lowered the GST from 7 to 5%.
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  30. Like where exactly?
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  31.  @tophat2115  LOL. The same Portland that's losing business to rampant crime and Seattle being San Francisco-lite?
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  32. You probably live beyond your means.
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  33.  @mildntender  Um. No. Canada does not need a housing shortage.
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  34. Price controls do not work unless you want shortages.
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  35.  @Cballin  <I Make plenty, difference is i care about all of us getting ahead, not just myself because im not self serving. > But you're damn sure naive. Not all of us will get ahead regardless and attempting to do so will just hold everyone back becoming the self-serving person you claim you're not.
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  36. They have personal finance issues.
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  37.  @tinalevesque5772  Yet no one paid such a rate.
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  38. <When you factor in the poor wages in the US, Canada is better off. > No. The average American even with the supposedly poor wages has more disposable income than the average Canadian. <Doug Fraud eliminated rent controls and just invited the robbery.> While rent control = robbery of landlords and anyone who was looking for housing. Rent control among other forms of government meddling was the reason why AirBnB came to existence.
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  39. <rent control is very important, > Only if you want to further exacerbate and perpetuate the housing crisis through lack of hosing availability.
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  40. Are you willing to pay actual living prices to support said wage?
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  41.  @acaciomadeira5147  Most Southern states don't have a state minimum wage.
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  42.  @atd5684  Not everyone works for big business. It's even funnier how the left think big business is the only employer that exists.
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  43. And watch most of the people piss it all away ending up right to square one broke and struggling.
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  44. Taxing the rich ironically hurts the poor.
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  45. Alongside the provinces.
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  46. Price controls do not work unless you don't mind shortages and having nothing to buy with this newfound raise in wages you received.
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  47.  @Havel_the_Rock420  How about no and you're free to move to Venezuela where what you advocating is practiced?
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  48. So the government can mismanage them into bankruptcy and then have them privatized?
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  49.  @StephenLeGresley  <Prices going up IS WHAT INFLATION MEANS.> Thanks to government over-spending and printing.
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  50. Yet 5 years ago, this was what advocates asked for.
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  51. And what's socialism's solution? What Venezuela has?
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  52. And end up having to work a side-job like a Cuban.
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  53. The only price-gouging going on here is that by the government.
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  54.  @Sam19509  Yet under Trudeau, inflation is much higher than it was when his step-father ran the show. Ditto for people starving and struggling.
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