SunriseChampion
Senior Member
I have no idea how you earn a living and frankly I don’t care. You come across as a public sector worker frankly but it makes no difference to me.
Businesses profits by taking risk, by employing people and pay more than their share of taxes in this province. You clearly have no clue what fees, levies, charges, etc businesses pay to stay alive. No clue.
Without businesses, primarily the small ones most affected by the min wage disaster, this province is fatally doomed. Wynne has already chased away manufacturing. If she wins again there will be nothing left.
Cute assumption.
I work in a physically and mentally intensive work environment (I actually WORK) and help run a small business. Our business' starting wage is well above minimum wage. I'm well aware of associated costs because I help run accounts. I receive an hourly wage and I pay more of my income in taxes than ANY BUSINESS IN ONTARIO, including my own.
Look, I despise the current government as well. Yeah, despise. But the shit coming out of you is irrational, ignorant, and false and I don't stand by rubbish of that magnitude.
Manufacturing still exists in this province. We do some ourselves, in fact. THE ECONOMY IS DOING WELL. 3.8% WAGE GROWTH LAST YEAR BEFORE THE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE. LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN YEARS. GDP CONTINUES TO INCREASE.
Where do you get the idea that the economy is in massive trouble?
To recap: I work outdoors and help run a small business of which I am soon to become part-owner and am partially responsible for accounts at. I receive an hourly wage. I pay more in taxes as a percentage of income than our business does, factoring in all costs.
The system runs on the backs of people like me. This is a fact. Full stop. Don't even try preaching your ignorant bullshit to me.
I can play the stupid assumption game too!
I'm assuming you're a salaried low-tax-paying, tax-avoiding suit who "works" in an office and thinks the world revolves around your "need" to own three cars of as high a cost as possible and that running public services isn't of importance to you because you're too ignorant in your own self-interest to know how roads are maintained and hospitals are run.
I could be wrong, but I doubt it.