Note To Madame Helene David

OMG! OMG! OMG!

I went to Dairy Queen today and there were NO FRENCH DESCRIPTORS!



I wanted to slap everyone's ice-cream out of their hands in case they were being duped! 'Mange pas ca, chalice!'

DON'T THEY KNOW IT'S NOT GOOD BUSINESS SENSE TO HAVE NO DESCRIPTORS?

I mean, the Quebec media, its pundits and politicians (all so well versed in the art of business and economics) have told us it is!

Over to you Helene. How will you save the French language from this obscenity!

LA CREMIERE DAIRY QUEEN.

NOW!

Disclaimer: Sarcasm.

Stop Bill 64

Quebec is proposing its own long-gun registry for some reason. And once again it's not based in any solid reasoning except for applying the precautionary principal.

How rare are multiple deaths by long-guns? We have to stretch back over 25 years Polytechnique massacre at the hands of Marc Lepin. Yet, we still insist to do something. The fact we haven't seen an event of this type only proves it was an outlier event.

Yet, we still hear about it as if it's a good reason to infringe on the civil liberties of people.

In a province and in a country that has low homicide rates, I wonder why the need for it. I fall into the category of people who feel this will simply penalize law-abiding citizens.

Never mind the disaster that was the long-gun registry at the Federal level that was rebuked by the Auditor-General. And this being Quebec, I don't expect it to be any better.

"With a comically unbelievable price tag of $17 million to set up Quebec’s new gun registry and another $5 million per year to run it, reasonable people are left wondering if Couillard discovered some magic elixir to keep the cost way, way down. After all, the CBC reported that the old national long-gun registry cost Canadians over $2 billion and over 25 per cent of Canada’s firearm owners live in “la belle province.”

Like I said. It's Quebec. They won't keep costs down. It's amazing really. No matter how many example of waste we have we still insist on tomfoolery. My Lord, just look at Quebec daycare and the financial mess it became.

Allow me a quick thought on daycare. We've come full circle. It's looking like more and more subsidized daycare is running its course while CPE's are probably not going to dominate the landscape anymore.

This is the part where Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders - who push for universal daycare and pre-k services - should shut up (yes, shut their left-wing utopian nonsense) a second and listen to someone who actually knows about this business.

Prior to 1995, Quebec had a normal daycare industry. Then the PQ stepped in (to help the working poor which of course didn't really happen according to plan. What does whenever the government ever intervenes in a private industry that didn't need its two-cents?) and subsidized daycare with the probable plan to kill off private daycare in the long-run. Of course, a funny thing happened on the way to the Rainbow and Unicorn room. Cost over runs were out of control.

Rather than admit a mistake or try and properly fix it (to the extent the government can fix anything) they even did their best to warn people about the 'inferior services' offered in the private sector. Which of course, was and still is a flat out lie. It's amazing how far they're willing to go to potentially harm private businesses run by Quebecers to push their own misguided agenda and schemes. Apparently, those families that depend on their business or a private service 'didn't count' when push came to shove.

So the Mme. Marois and the PQ get a big middle finger (the Italian salute as it were) for directly insulting me and people like me.

Now public sector workers are fighting 'austerity' measures in daycare. But the fact is they got something they should never have gotten in the first place. This is not austerity. This is bringing sanity back to the books.

And so here we are, slowly reverting back to the North American norm and mean. Quebecers will just have to adjust and accept we're not anymore special than anyone on the continent. We certainly didn't have the wealth or cash flow to justify it and with our debt levels, cutting subsidies in daycare was a no-brainer.

Progressive policies have to stop or else we'll end up like Europe down the road. And no, it's not a model to emulate.

Which brings me back to the gun-registry.

There's no justification for it and the Couillard government - showing itself to be utterly banal - is on cue to become yet another stake in the heart of Quebec waste and corruption with this nonsense.

Quebec has far more bigger problems to tackle. 

Canada's Shame: Selling Arms To Saudis Just Business

Listening to pundits on the radio talk about the export permits surrounding selling tanks to Saudi Arabia, I was astonished to hear them talk about this with indifference and defend the export permit two explanations excuses were given. 

First up was conservative Geoff Norquay saying along the lines, 'hey, it's the way things are and if we start picking and choosing who are bad countries we'd have no clients and then we'd be looking at ourselves in the mirror!'

Work that strawman Norquay. Work it real good. Whip it.

For fuck sakes, all we're saying is don't sell to regimes that have been known to use weapons on their own people. It's quite a simple line to draw and no one would fault us for doing it.

Later he conceded where money and jobs pit against human rights, the former wins.

The very same reasons Canadians criticize the big bad Americans for.

What were you saying about mirrors, Jeff?

The other was from Jonathan Goldbloom representing the - scowls - the Liberals.

His take? Israel didn't make a stink about it.

And?

What's your point?

The Liberals often criticized Harper for not espousing Canadian values enough abroad and now we're supposed to overlook the rhetoric set forth by this government where human rights are concerned?

I thought Canada was...back?

I couldn't care less what Israel thinks because it has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with the integrity of this government. Match up our rhetoric on human rights with damn action or else piss off. I wouldn't be all worked up about it had the Liberals not played the holier than thou Vaudevile act prior to this. However, they did and they deserve to be reamed for it.

Finally, it's been asserted there's no proof Saudi Arabia has used Canadian arms on its own citizens.

Cute.

We know this is a country that routinely imprisons and executes people. It's not a stretch to assume one day one of our arms will be used to kill innocent people.

Yes, that means you and me have blood on our hands. Don't accept or be fooled by such tomfoolery. This is a deal that should not have been signed.

I don't think selling to the Saudi Arabians would have hurt us all that much. At least we'd have our dignity. Moreover, we wouldn't have to snicker and laugh the next time Trudeau pulls one of his drama humanist shtick.

I guess being part of the left-wing liberal tent means never needing to put your money where your mouth is. The Liberals are nakedly proving it's easier to sprout niceties about human rights and *values* from afar or as opposition.

Never mind that Stephane 'Where's my balls?' Dion and his party led by the PM basically flat out lied to the Canadian public.

Not bad. Just four months in and the government has already broken not one but two promises. First up was the budget; specifically with small business where promises made but were shamelessly ignored and now this. Man, that's cynicism.

The other thing the Liberals are working on is a Parliamentary hearing on electoral reform where they will look to - I presume -  rig reforms in their favor. This was better suited for a non-partisan Royal Commission. By taking the Parliamentary route the Liberals are just tempting being charged with lack of credibility down the road.

The amateur hour will run for three more years and nine months in Parliament.

So much for that wholesome bit about Canadian values, eh?

U.S. Campuses Out Of Control

"Assistant Director of Inclusion and Student Engagement".

How's that for a job title? If this sends shivers down your spine, it should.

If this hasn't convinced you a thick veil of darkness has descended upon campuses nothing will.

This is straight out of 1984.

How profoundly ignorant of history (which makes them dangerous in my eyes given, you know, they work in an institution of higher education) are Ms. Rowlett, Berry and Prange? A trio of dingbats who seem to be more interested in the tomfoolery of their titles than actual intellectualism.

Courtesy of the geniuses from Millikin University.

“Millikin University is committed to fostering a community of inclusiveness that respects difference amongst all students,” she wrote in the letter, a copy of which was provided to Campus Reform by a fraternity member who wishes to remain anonymous. “It is my hope that the men of [Tau Kappa Epsilon] utilize this as an educational opportunity to explore the concept of intent vs. impact with regard to cultural appropriation.”

Oh fuck off already with this tripe. This cultural appropriation nonsense is an evil that needs to be eradicated. I have but one question for Rowlett: Does she eat pizza and pasta? If yes, she's *culturally appropriating* Italian culture. This alone should give pause or act as a slap to the face jolting someone out of their faux-intellectual misery.

The government, experts in making a mess of life, had its role to play helping to unleash unintended consequences students are facing by their cowardly deans and other middle-earth trolls guarding over them. Idiotic things like Title IX have been used as a tool to suppress and hurt people.

Obama, who would have been wise to keep out of this nonsense, had his hand to play in all this sick madness of unintended consequences.

People have been taking to pen about how Obama is the 'greatest President in their lifetime' and that he's 'changed the paradigm.'

To the former, we can but snicker but to the latter. I'm afraid he has.

And for the worse I reckon.

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What we need here is a full frontal rebellion.

1984 In A Chart

I'd like to thank the University of Oregon for putting '1984' into a chart.

"...An annual report on the activities of University of Oregon’s Bias Response Team provides a frightening yet fascinating glimpse into the practices of these organizations, which are common on college campuses. Students, faculty, and staff who feel threatened, harassed, intimidated, triggered, microaggressed, offended, ignored, under-valued, or objectified because of their race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, disability status, mental health, religion, political affiliation, or size are encouraged to contact the BRT." 





Very disturbing.

What the heck is happening on college campuses in the United States?

This. This is not good.

Semi-Enlightened Simpletons

Religulous was all I needed to know about Maher's philosophical depth.

A fart in the wind.

I think McInnes brings up a good point by how liberals frame the narrative.

The same thing can apply to climate change.

Needs More Descriptors

I have a question for Helene David.

Perusing and putzing around the mall the other day, I noticed 'Star Wars' t-shirts being sold.

I wonder if this should come with 'French descriptors' given, you know, it's an American film en anglais.

This is a scary situation for consumers who may feel disrespected.

Might I suggest 'Le filme' discreetly below 'Star Wars'?

It makes 'good business sense', no?

What you say, Mme. David?

Wednesday Night Music

Wow!

Now that's HISTORY!

British Columbia: Banana Republic

Just to show I'm an equal opportunist to mocking stupidity, here's a little story out of B.C.

"A man who was unable to get a high chair for his baby at two different Earls restaurant locations in Vancouver will have his complaint heard by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
In a ruling delivered Wednesday, tribunal chair Bernd Walter opted not to dismiss the complaint lodged by Phillip Ryan as Earls had requested.

Ryan’s complaint stems from a February 2015 visit to the chain’s Hornby Street location. When he was told no high chairs were available, his family left. Ryan, who is alleging discrimination on the basis of family status, said he encountered the same issue when visiting a different Earls location three weeks later, and this time opted to dine there with the child in his lap.

In response, Earls submitted that while some of its locations do not have high chairs, Ryan was offered what the restaurant group considered “reasonable options” — booth seating where the baby could sit next to him or on his lap.

Ryan, who was attempting to have a celebratory family dinner while avoiding the cost of a babysitter during the first incident, said holding the child in his lap for the entire meal would be stressful, and that was the case when he decided to stay for the second incident."

Aw. Poor Phillip Ryan.

Big baby.

Excuse the pun.

When my wife and I wanted to go out for dinner or planned to have a party we chose places we knew could accommodate our child or called places to make they did.

We certainly never thought to make an issue of things whatever the circumstances.

Because, you know, we're not whiny narcissists or progressive nuthead who believe everything is a 'basic human right' because we "feel" it to be.

And why in the fuck is the Human Rights Tribunal - shudders - even giving this jerkoff the time of day?



The madness. It goes round and round I tell you.

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Wholefoods recently hit back at a customer who lied about an alleged racist message on a cake he purchased. One can only hope corporations start to push back against this SJW insanity.

First step is to not offer Ryan anything. In fact, ban him from ever entering their establishment again.

Le Quebecois Libre Ceases Publication

It was unfortunate to learn the news of Le Quebecois Libre suspending its publication indefinitely.

It was the country's (let alone Quebec) only libertarian and classical liberal voice.

And now it's gone.

For shame because Canada is poorer for it.

What's left are conservative magazines like The Western Standard  and newspapers like The National Post who have libertarian views from time to time but really are conservative at its roots.

Welcome To Quebec: Banana Republic

Welcome to petty, parochial and punitive Quebec:

"...In 2014, stores including Wal-Mart and Best Buy won a court battle with the province over signs.
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The OQLF wanted the companies with English trademarks like Canadian Tire to have some sort of descriptor so that people would know what they were selling.

Gasp! How do they manage?!

Yes, because by now Quebecers haven't fucking figured what Canadian Tire is and what it sells.  Talk about treating your population as if they're idiots. I mean, come on, what's next? They're gonna fumble and stumble into a Krispy Kreme thinking they sell paint? That if they go into La Bottega Pizzeria they will look for poutine? IKEA? What's that? Chalice, parle moi francais pas Suedois!

One would think how the heck they order a Big Mac, tabernak!

Two courts ruled in favour of the retailers, saying they were not violating the sign law. The province is now amending the law.

Because that's what banana republics do. They find things to piss people off with. Everyone and their lousy hockey coach agree Bill 101 (you know, that law that tramples on civil liberties if it were enacted anywhere on the continent) achieved 'balance' (well, in the context of shitty Quebec intellectualism where freedom of speech and expression are concerned) and some degree of linguistic peace, yet here are the Liberals acting like a bunch of PQ hicks.

All businesses – not just stores, but restaurants, hotels, and companies – will have to have some type of French descriptor on anywhere the English name can be seen from outside.
If the English trademark name is illuminated, the French description will also be required to be illuminated.

This is heading somewhere nefarious...
 
The government estimates this will cost companies anywhere from $500 to $9,000.

There it is! Punitive measures! 

Language minister Helene David said it simply makes good business sense to ensure the majority of clients feel welcomed.
 
There's that good ole paternalistic arrogance. I highly doubt successful businesses with global reach and brand power need preaching as to what 'makes good business sense'.

Welcomes? I hadn't fucking noticed Wal-Mart spits in the faces of Quebecers telling them to 'speak white fucking frogs.'

Idiot. Just a stupid idiotic, insulting statement.

“It's very important, because we are in Quebec and the people here in Quebec want to see something specific for their own language, so we see Supercentre Wal-Mart, they feel that they are incorrect.

Yeah well, Supercenter is how it's properly spelled. Just like it's Tim HORTON'S and not Tim Hortons. Look, if language nationalist boobheads want to mess up their own language that's their business. But they shouldn't be allowed to mock grammar rules of another language in this manner.  I mean, this people were afraid of an apostrophe. AN APOSTROPHE THREATENED THEIR LANGUAGE! So Eaton's became Eaton. 

Nothing says protecting your language by demeaning another!

It's also the place that felt that the internationally recognized word of 'Stop' had to be replaced on the most recognizable octagon on earth with the word 'Arret'. If France, the home of the French language, didn't feel the need to go that far, why did Quebec? Are they that insecure to be so banal?
 
The people she's referring to are the assholes who go around complaining about words like 'pasta' on menus. 

The Liberals are pandering to losers because it looks like being a loser sells.

I find it very hard to believe in 2016 the average Quebecer believes this shit is actually productive. I hope anyway.

None of this enhances or protects a language. On the contrary, it undermines and demeans it.

Then they wonder why this place continues to sink down the shitter.

They are not in Maine, they are not in the state of New York, so they feel that they are in Quebec, where the French language is the official language,” said David."

They should be so lucky. When I visit Maine, I see a bunch of stores with French names and no one bats a bloody eye. Put an English word on a sign in Quebec and apparently everyone turns into a xenophobic retard drooling mushed zucchini.

Again from the top: Quebec is unique when it comes to exerting punitive measures against freedom of expressions and speech. That's a dubious distinction that should give pause to us as a ostensibly free society.

When we finally leave this place I will party hard!

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I have to pay my taxes to Quebec and then I have to watch Helene David on TV go after my language as if it threatens her language (a majority of 87% I might add)?

How does that work exactly?

Dividing Lines

This is just my 'snap shot' general view of how I perceive things based on how these groups debate, react to and intellectualize various issues (e.g. gun control, minimum wage, free speech etc.). Obviously this is just my personal take and rooted in my own assumptions. However, this is how I generally see how the philosophical tribes are divided.

Classical liberals, libertarians and conservatives: Skeptical and optimistic view of human nature. 

Still believe in the strength, wisdom and innovation of the individual and community. They accept man's imperfect nature and the vices and virtues that come with it. Their outlook rests on the notion that limited government is the best way to manage human nature whereas a large one is a threat to it.

Progressives (which includes socialists) and contemporary liberals: Cynical and pessimistic. They recognize man's imperfect nature but believe it can be regulated and managed. Man should behave in a certain manner they believe is conducive to the greater good. In this way, a government is never big enough because of the alleged complexities of the modern world. Freedom can never be threatened because government bestows liberties on the people.

No Mr. Morneau, You Do Not Speak For Small Business

The Liberals make a lot of noises about being pro small business but they're nothing of the sort. Which doesn't surprise me. Prior to the election I didn't think a party led by Justin Trudeau would be. Hence why did not vote for them and likely never will again.

The proof is in the pudding as the liberals broke several promises in the Federal budget.

As per the CFIB:

-The corporate tax rate will remain 10.5%. By 2019, it is estimated it will cost small businesses $900 million. Well, someone had to help pay for the Liberal party's wild spending budget, no? Projected to be $29 billion with no concrete plan to pay it back while heading into a lethargic economy.
-The government reneged on introducing an Employment insurance holiday for workers between 18-24 between 2016 and 2018.
-They will expand CPP/QPP. This one bothers me to no end. I just don't see how they can square wanting growth - which small businesses help contribute to - while taxing them further. Right, infrastructure programs will more than offset this because apparently more jobs and money or something.

None of this is attractive to me nor do I subscribe much to the liberal 'tax and spend' philosophy at this point.

So I wish Mr. Morneau could knock it off pretending yapping on about being for small business. I'm a small business owner and so far color me unimpressed.

Heroes! Kawartha Police Show Why We Need To Be Vigilant With Our Rights

Enjoy this story.

Sounds like Mark Donaldson and Janette Drew are a couple of incompetent lying, cowardly, tress passing thugs who happen to have state sanctioned badges who could have not only taken a person's right to earn a living (the victim is a model) but outright taken her life.

In this case (and many like it), it's easy to wonder if there's a difference between gang members and these two delinquents if the story went down as it did- and quite frankly I wouldn't be surprised it did given the immense amount of police abuse stories in North America I've been gathering.

Serve and protecting you for your own good!



Oh. Who is this criminal Mark Donaldson?

"Const. Mark Donaldson, of nearby Dunsford, Ont., was charged this week with fraud over $5,000, laundering proceeds of crime, and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
Police are still probing whether his status as a police officer played a role in his alleged involvement.
City of Kawartha Lakes Police said Donaldson will keep his job, but be kept off investigative duties, as the case proceeds."

Isn't that quaint and special? A piece of shit like that shouldn't have 'Constable' attached to his name.

The charges were dropped with no explanation.

Fuck you, that's why.

CBC Asks If Media Has Dangerous Crush On Trudeau

Yes.

Next question.

Earth Day; Stupid Day. What's The Difference?

From the AEI - 18 failed climate change predictions:

1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.

3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”

6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The 

Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”

7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out.

14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”

15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.

16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”

18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Any questions?

ESPN Is Dead To Me

What is this nonsense of ESPN carrying the fricken SJW torch?

I haven't visited ESPN and pretty much have cut them out of my sports in-take diet. I don't need to be lectured or watch them fire people left, right and center for opinions that, heaven forbid, offend the SJW psychos.

I don't miss it.

D.C. Enourages Snitching Among Citizens

A government that encourages its people to rat on each other is one infested with immoral and dishonorable pond scum.

Muslims In Italy Say The Darndest Things

I'm having a little trouble understanding their logic.

Let me see if I get these clowns straight.  Women are respected because they're covered. The second they're exposed being 'provocative' they earn the right to be raped because Muslim men can't control their impulses? Aren't they admitting they're weak of mind and flesh?

Sounds as though these pervs are seriously repressed and found ways to justify their backward views on women.

Dangerous Narratives

As far as I can tell, defenders of the minimum wage act have a shallow if not dubious understanding on how business works.

Actually, I've argued they have no clue because the majority of people don't know what it is to run a business.

The breathtaking stupidity sweeping the United States and spreading across the continent of paying a 'living wage' is bound to end in failure wallowing in unintended consequences that, I believe, will hurt a whole bunch of people - mostly low income employees and youths looking to enter the labor force.

It's funny how the left just loves to pick and choose parts of the Scandinavian model to push their agenda. For example, Sweden and Denmark don't have minimum wage laws.

Politicians who decree - without much thought it appears - go forth and pay $15 /hr. are living in a dream world. You can't tell a business with a certain cost structure and margins to just pay employees what they think they're worth.

It just doesn't work that way and one is a fool to not expect serious consequences.

Of course, to the simpleton mind with no regard for business owners (I mean, they're swimming in cash right?) the premise (a faulty one of course) is they have the "profits" to pass on and if they don't that means they shouldn't be in business. Or they would 'gladly pay more' if it meant a 'living wage'. Highly doubtful and in any event those who irrationally think this way are a tiny precious few (just like the number of people with families working in a minimum wage job represent an insignificant fraction of the labor force) to have any meaningful impact.

Tell you what, you keep that track and people with capital willing to invest won't come. Which leads to another absurd piece of logic: Where stores close, someone else will take its place.

Never mind the cost to a community in the meant time when someone has to shut down because of government intervention. It's one thing to close down voluntarily (poor sales, death etc.) but quite another when a business is healthy. There's no reason to damage people in this way.

We are where we are in our evolutionary progress where capitalism is concerned.

We've never been more efficient, intelligent, wealthier, healthier and exact in our abilities.

This is a fact.

Tinker with it and you're engaging in deception.