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Surely Harper Doesn’t Want More Poor People. Or Does He?
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
11 Jan 2012
As the Fraser Institute’s Niels Veldhuis observed, “taking money from successful Canadians and redistributing it to lower income Canadians will only decrease the incentives for lower income Canadians to become successful.”… Minimum wage laws and the right to be represented by a union infringe on the economic freedom of employers and employees, they say. Having a legislated minimum wage must inhibit a prospective employee’s freedom to choose an even lower wage… as Canada’s standing on the economic freedom index rises, so do the number of billionaires and the ranks of the poor and struggling
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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