hno:
What's cheaper!?!? Our hydro cost is the highest in the world! Homes in the GTA are more expensive than anywhere in North America save NY, Vancouver and LA. We're taxed up the yin yang. Our cell phone and internet is among the most expensive in the world! We have little to no competition when it comes to cell, internet and cable services. Ontario pays the highest car insurance in North America. I always find food cheaper in the States. So what things are cheaper here?
The long term ramifications of price controls are virtually, almost always bad. In the case of minimum wage laws, an increase in the minimum wage has the largest adverse effect on the poor, particularly the uneducated poor. Not only does the increasing of the minimum wage bring more skilled workers down into the lower pay scale areas, where they can find easier and less stressful work, which of course takes jobs from the less skilled worker, it will also increase the costs to the poor consumer, who often utilizes the services of the average minimum wage worker (grocery store, convenience store, fast food restaurant, etc.). Less jobs available for the poor while raising the cost of the goods and services they have to buy is a really brutal thing to do to them.
Just get out of the way and let people work towards their own best interest. Social engineering never works.
Just get out of the way and let people work towards their own best interest. Social engineering never works.
And the 407 is so expensive! I'd rather pay multiple tolls in the States. We pay 4.55 per gallon of gas (1.22 per litre) and a buck a nugget (5.79 for a six pack, you get 20 for five bucks in the States) lol. I'm seriously considering selling my detached home in the GTA and moving to the States. I'm getting tired of Orville Redenbacher and Trudope always reaching into my pocket and a lack of transportation infrastructure in Toronto. Christ we're still using 19th century technology (streetcars) in the downtown core!
