The Conservative Party Has No Real Solutions For The Afforda

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The Conservative Party Has No Real Solutions For The Affordability Crisis

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'Powerful paycheques' is a catchy slogan, but the Conservatives lack the ideas needed to make it come true.

by Nora Loreto September 9, 2023

EXCERPT: "A paycheque isn’t made powerful because it has less tax taken off of it. At least the second half of the NDP’s version of this slogan makes sense – powerful unions are the reason why a paycheque might become more, to use their words, powerful.

But the most important way to give someone a bigger paycheque is to force employers to give workers more money. That can be done in a variety of ways: Higher minimum wages, legislated wage increases, limits to profits (that must then be paid out to workers), and so on.

These are ways to give people more money, but they are kryptonite to the Conservative Party. With no election on the horizon any time soon, will the party be able to coast with their affordability rhetoric while being short on actual solutions, or is rhetoric all that it takes to win government these days?"