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【明年可能不再是「最自由經濟體」了……】 報道全文：https://bit.ly/3AaqHbi #菲沙研究所（#FraserInstitute）公布《世界經濟自由度2020年度報告》，香港再度蟬聯全球最自由的經濟體。但報告指，評分是基於 2019 年的數據，仍未完全反映 2019 年開始的反修例運動，以及往後政府推出國安法等行動的影響。報告又強調，中方的強硬手段（#heavyhand）有可能會降低香港未來幾年的排名。政府發言人今日（14 日）指，認同報告對香港努力的肯定，但點名批評有關香港法治、國安法和內地干預香港事務等內容屬「不公評論」。 #立場新聞 #standnews #新聞 #News #香港 #HongKong #經濟 #社會 #商業 #法治 #國安法 #反送中 #反修例運動 #黃色經濟圈 #新聞自由 #香港記者協會 #記協 #HKJA #社會政策 #青年政策 （在 Hong Kong） https://www.instagram.com/p/CT8nbx6vW03/?utm_medium=tumblr
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RT @FraserInstitute: Eliminating provincial capital gains tax would make Alberta more competitive with key energy-producing states such as Texas https://t.co/vODlMM18pB #abpoli https://t.co/6049768bc1
Eliminating provincial capital gains tax would make Alberta more competitive with key energy-producing states such as Texas https://t.co/vODlMM18pB #abpoli pic.twitter.com/6049768bc1
— The Fraser Institute (@FraserInstitute) December 18, 2018
via Twitter https://twitter.com/CanadaAction
December 18, 2018 at 07:41AM
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The latest The Wayne's Earth Daily! https://t.co/uIMN6jz4Nb Thanks to @FraserInstitute #richardoverton #kag
The latest The Wayne's Earth Daily! https://t.co/uIMN6jz4Nb Thanks to @FraserInstitute #richardoverton #kag
— Wayne Mathison - Father, Man (@wmathison) June 30, 2018
via Twitter https://twitter.com/wmathison
June 30, 2018 at 06:24AM
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RT @rankandfileca: Fear mongering claims by @FraserInstitute about $15 min wage are discredited here: https://t.co/zT1xr6FaNo #canlab… https://t.co/VJvN5xYEWd
Fear mongering claims by @FraserInstitute about $15 min wage are discredited here: https://t.co/zT1xr6FaNo #canlab #15andFairness #onpoli http://pic.twitter.com/azUrFZXCvt
— Rankandfile.ca (@rankandfileca) September 19, 2017
via Twitter https://twitter.com/brashley46
September 19, 2017 at 01:54PM
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Very informative piece by @FraserInstitute about how Canada mesures up re #IP Rights Protection & #pharma https://t.co/4Xxd9mKBqP #cdnhealth
— Sarah Dion-Marquis (@sdionmarquis) January 26, 2017
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@matlantivex: @lawyermacg @FraserInstitute ..... or this one: #Trudeau will bury us in #debt https://t.co/PjopcgGZ0r #Canada
@lawyermacg @FraserInstitute ..... or this one: #Trudeau will bury us in #debt https://t.co/PjopcgGZ0r #Canada
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RT @FraserInstitute: Read this: Competitiveness by the numbers is only partly helpful https://t.co/7nH3t9sIM7 via @FraserInstitute BLOG #cdnpoli
Read this: Competitiveness by the numbers is only partly helpful https://t.co/7nH3t9sIM7 via @FraserInstitute BLOG #cdnpoli
— The Fraser Institute (@FraserInstitute) October 19, 2018
via Twitter https://twitter.com/CanadaAction
October 19, 2018 at 05:21PM
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The latest The Wayne's Earth Daily! https://t.co/zSjt9rBqnH Thanks to @FraserInstitute @theleftfails #cdnpoli #gosnellmovie
The latest The Wayne's Earth Daily! https://t.co/zSjt9rBqnH Thanks to @FraserInstitute @theleftfails #cdnpoli #gosnellmovie
— Wayne Mathison - Father, Man (@wmathison) June 27, 2018
via Twitter https://twitter.com/wmathison
June 27, 2018 at 06:24PM
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Minimum Wage Against The Machine
The Fraser Institute is a Canadian right-wing propaganda machine so lacking in subtlety they make Fox News look like BC Almanac. Oh sorry, I forgot. They are technically a charity. A charity backed by the Koch Brothers whose top ten percent of employees earn incomes in the top 1%. Why do I bring up how much they pay themselves? Because they just dropped a video on YouTube titled: “MINIMUM WAGE HIKES IN CANADA-BAD IDEA” and is a shoddy piece of animation that looks like something Ayn Rand might have come up with if she took a night school course in flash animation (fifteen years ago). Have a look see:
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"Some people believe that raising the minimum wage will help reduce poverty."
Yeah. They're called poor people and low-income workers. And they're not "some people", they're the majority. And they're mostly women.
http://bcfed.ca/news/releases/two-thirds-british-columbians-support-15-hour-minimum-wage
Study how the Fraser Institute depicts pro-minimum wage raise protesters. Two of them are holding signs that only show $ on them while the middle figure holds a sign that simply reads “RAISE MINIMUM WAGE” sounding like Frankenstein’s monster. MIN WAGE GOOD! FIRE BAD!
To the Fraser Institute a wage increase is all about the money, not the necessities of life that money provides. Their signs do not depict food, or shelter, or children. No. Just money. In a classic case of projection the Fraser Institute accuse low-income workers of caring only for money, when in fact they themselves are the ones literally framing the issue with dollar sings.
The Fraser Institute alleges that there’s no need for a minimum wage increase because “88% of low income workers don’t even live in low income housing."
Just because someone isn’t living a dumpster doesn’t mean they’re not poor. How is this (dubious) statistic in any way relevant? Yes, many low income workers don’t live in low income housing. You know why? Because there’s not a lot of low-income housing to go around and people have to live somewhere, preferably indoors. They move into dwellings they can’t afford and pay most of their minimum wage to rent with little or nothing left over for other necessities, never mind saving anything.
This is like making the argument: 100% of low income workers have eaten in the last 24 hours! They’re not that poor! That guy even pooped in an indoor toilet this morning! Stop whining and get back to work!
According to the F.I. you’re not "poor” unless you’re standing in a soup lineup dressed in a barrel and chewing on your shoe.
“60% are teenagers or young adults living with their parents.” Even if this stat is true (it isn’t) what about the other 40%? You know? The group comprising single mums, minorities, the mentally ill, disabled or just plain unlucky? That 40% consists of thousands and thousands of people who work hard and deserve an honest day’s pay for their labour. If you’d like to meet them you can find them in line outside the PayDay Loans office on every corner of East Vancouver.
This is how the Fraser Institute imagines low-income workers. A lazy teenagers living at his parents’ house SITTING ON HIS ASS WATCHING TELEVISION. Get a job you lazy freeloader! He's ridin' dirty on his parents' couch! Where's the huge bong and gold bling? Lower that couch and pimp it! This stay-at-home playa's got some MAD MINIMUM WAGE STACKS!
“Just 2% are single parents with young children.”
A solitary single mum and her child. Just the one. Certainly not numbering in the thousands. Interestingly, she was nowhere to be seen in the protester group at the beginning of the video. Maybe she was too busy working at Dunkin’ Donuts and trying to make it to daycare in time because her daughter’s deadbeat dad won’t pay child support. Who’s to say? She sure as hell hasn’t got the time to visit the Fraser Institute’s website, where condescending rich men could tell her all about how raising her wages would be terrible for her and her daughter.
Guys like these!
Hey fellas, nobody claimed that 100% of low-income workers were single parents. This is not the issue. The issue is a reasonable living wage in the modern world for all workers (including single parents). By loading the video with made-up statistics, they can more effectively distract us from the real the argument and muddy the water with bullshit, irrelevant stats. Which is exactly what they do when you visit their website.
MEANWHILE, ON THE FRASER INSTITUTE’S WEBSITE!
“Popular support for the minimum wage largely derives from the belief that it is a useful tool for boosting the wages of poor workers. However, the evidence paints a much different picture.”
Of course. Only a fool and a communist would surmise that if you increase the wages of poor workers their wages would increase, just because it makes perfect sense and is a logical English sentence.
“ hiking the minimum wage can do considerable harm, most notably by de-creasing employment opportunities among low-skilled workers… increasing the minimum wage may significantly reduce employment among teenagers and other groups of low-skilled workers.”
This argument has always struck me as a veiled threat, like it should be delivered by a menacing man in a pin-striped suit and fedora through teeth chomping on a fat cigar. “Do you like having a job? Well then shut up and make do with what we (are forced to) give ya. And say hi to your kids for me. It would be a shame if anything happened to your kids.”
These arguments are, of course, baseless bullshit. There have been minimum wage increases in the past and Subway is still doing fine. Besides, one would have thought with all the creepy automated checkout machines in supermarkets replacing employees there would be plenty of money left over to give raises to what few workers you have left.
What better ways, you might ask?
“rather than the dubious policy of increasing the minimum wage, there is a better option for helping workers from poor households, namely increasing the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB)… a refundable tax credit that allows qualifying low-wage workers to keep more of their earnings, effectively subsidizing them to work more.”
I’ll boil it down for you. Welfare. But not. (Except it totally is Welfare, they even call it that on their website.)
This proposal is the government doling out taxes to low-income workers so corporate executives can pocket even more of their profits. After all, why should corporations be on the hook for the well-being of their workers? It’s clearly the responsibility of our government to deal with the human fallout of skyrocketing living costs, not corporate Canada, whose only responsibility is maximizing profits.
Call me crazy but I think the best way to help low-income workers is to make them no longer low income workers. And that doesn’t mean larger tax refunds, it means raising the fucking minimum wage. Or both.
Oh and BTW, Fraser Institute? Your video looks like shit. You probably should have paid the animator more than minimum wage.
http://www.fightfor15bc.ca/
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