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Sounds like it would be a great lesson in unintended consequences: - it would punish low skill industries over high skill industries; the PE shop of a dozen pe
by refurb 4y ago
Sounds like it would be a great lesson in unintended consequences:
- it would punish low skill industries over high skill industries; the PE shop of a dozen people where the lowest paid worker makes $500,000 doesn't have to worry, but the retail chain with 100,000 employees is going to be hit hard
- provides a strong incentive to outsource low paying jobs, rather than bringing them in house, or come up with other corporate structures (franchises for retail operations, move headquarters out of the country) to avoid having low paying employees on corporate payroll
Completely unsurprising suggestion by the NDP who has never been elected to lead the country before, so tends to have a ton of half-baked populist ideas that don't appear to be thought through very well and will never actually be implemented, but are very good at attracting voters.
- harimau777 4y agoCouldn't the law just be written to include franchises, contractors, etc. in the calculations?
- donmcronald 4y agoYeah. Make it include all direct and indirect employees. Outsourcing to a 3rd world country for pennies on the dollar? Great, enjoy your massive tax bill.
- jvmfjvfjvf 4y agoGreat, enjoy your companies leaving Canada to not pay a massive tax bill.
- refurb 4y agoBut companies don't set the pay for contractors, they pay contracting firms a lump sum for services. And contracts are basically every single service the company may need, whether business related or unrelated like gardening, trash pick up, snow removal, etc. If a company hires an outside company to come pick up their garbage, do the garbage men also count? What happens when they switch vendors, do they report that back to the government? What happens if the outside firm gives their employees a raise? Does that get reported back to the main company, who then informs the government? What if they hire an outside firm for only 1 month, does that count? Who tracks all this? How does it get reported to the government? That sounds like a massive regulatory mess and burden which of which the cost will be passed to customers.
- waboremo 4y agoYou do realize low paying jobs are already rapidly being outsourced... right? This at the very least secures liveable wages for a substantial group of people. We can do more, but the argument that this shouldn't be done because this would negatively affect low paying jobs which are already horrifically negatively impacted while we do nothing, is an absurd argument to hold.
- refurb 4y agoSo you're saying because low paying jobs are outsourced, it shouldn't matter if laws are passed that make the problem worse?
- UncleEntity 4y ago> Sounds like it would be a great lesson in unintended consequences If you look into the history of progressive taxation in the US this holds true. When they got rid of it (lowered taxes) the government took in more tax dollars because it was cheaper to just pay the taxes instead of paying to not give 90% (or whatever the highest bracket really was) of your income to the government.