Ontario is really transforming into a have-not province isn’t it? In addition to experimenting with a basic income guarantee, revamping its labor code to hurt businesses, substantially raising hydro costs and increasing the provincial debt to $300 billion, the Ontario Liberals are now increasing the minimum wage to $15. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced on Tuesday […]
Archives for May 2017
Fail: WaPo food critic says white chefs can only sell burritos if they don’t make money
What the heck is going on in the minds of leftists these days? They’re offended by everything, even by the food that you eat or cook. Oy vey. The latest craziness from the whacky left is white-owned restaurants selling food from other cultures. This is otherwise known as culinary appropriation. Ugh… Washington Post food critic […]
Cronyism: The Eye-Care Industry Wants Big Government to Crush the Competition
By: Jonathan Lee Big Eye is watching you. For more than a decade, lobbyists from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which controls over 40 percent of the contact lens market as a result of their cozy relationship with optometrists, and the American Optometric Association (AOA), which represents nearly 40,000 optometrists nationwide, have been fighting to create […]
Shock: Pope Francis celebrates business, rails against welfare
Wait a minute…Pope Francis is celebrating businessmen? That can’t be! Nope. He did. Are we now on the verge of the Apocalypse? Speaking at the Ilva steel plant in Genoa on Saturday, Pope Francis gave a nod to businessmen: “There can’t be a good economy without good businessmen, without their capacity to create and to […]
Week in Review: May 22 to May 28
In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a round-up of some of the most read pieces written by the Economic Collapse News staff: Report: 64 Bay Area restaurants shut down amid higher minimum wage Donald Trump’s ‘priming the pump’ won’t create real wealth HOT: Trump 2018 budget would slash $3.6 trillion […]