{"id":2408,"date":"2014-01-30T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2014-01-30T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T15:58:07","slug":"kathleen-wynne-nickels-and-dimes-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Wynne Nickels and Dimes Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Kathleen Wynne&#8217;s Liberals raised miniumum wage in Ontario from $10.25 to $11.00. Either she doesn&#8217;t do math or she is nickel and diming. \u00a0She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/queenspark\/2014\/01\/29\/premier_to_announce_minimum_wage_indexed_to_inflation.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced that she would tag the rise to inflation<\/a> since 2010 when it was last raised.<\/p>\n<p>Yet by my math when I take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inflation.eu\/inflation-rates\/canada\/historic-inflation\/cpi-inflation-canada.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CPI inflation rate in Canada over the past 4 years<\/a> and multiply the rate by the current $10.25 minimum wage I get a $10.96 minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>CPI inflation for 2010 &#8211; 2.35%<\/p>\n<p>CPI inflation for 2011 &#8211; 2.30%<\/p>\n<p>CPI inflation for 2012 &#8211; 0.83%<\/p>\n<p>CPI inflation for 2013 &#8211; 1.24%<\/p>\n<p>So $10.25 x 1.0235 x 1.0230 x 1.0083 x 1.0124 = $10.955<\/p>\n<p>So she has just tagged in an added 4.45 cents. \u00a0You may think this is paltry but it is another way she is nudging Ontario small businesses over the cliff a nickel at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Officially Screwed&#8230;.again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Kathleen Wynne&#8217;s Liberals raised miniumum wage in Ontario from $10.25 to $11.00. Either she doesn&#8217;t do math or she is nickel and diming. \u00a0She announced that she would tag the rise to inflation since 2010 when it was last raised. Yet by my math when I take the CPI inflation rate in Canada over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,44,56],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moonbattery","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-provincial","tag-free-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}