The Editor,
Wonderful. The minimum wage adjustment is also known as the mini wage squeeze. So you work eight hours and then head off to another mini wage job. Get home just in time to tuck the kids into bed.
What is it with our provincial politicians, who pay themselves extremely well, a third of it tax-free. They have gold-plated benefits plus platinum pensions.
The mini job worker, if he or she is lucky, will hopefully avoid illness or loss of job as both have a huge impact on their family as often there are no benefits and a pension.
Someone suggested politicians' salaries also be tied to the cost of living and there be no tax-free provision. But even that is too much given the kind of decisions they make for a job that takes two months a year.
"Families first," you say? The phrase is a joke.
Our opposition party also just fold their hands and smile at the cameras. It is no wonder 75% of adults in British Columbia don't vote.
Brian Robinson, Coquitlam
