This seems to me something that needs provincial legislation to remedy. Maybe time to get to know your newly elected MP?
Provincial politics
- Thread starter Schneller
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It's a new parliament. Ask and say that it's a form of double taxation to have both WSIB and private insurance but that if something was to happen you can't claim. That you should only have 1 or the other not both. Equate it to car insurance so they understand, being forced to pay for both private and public insurance on 1 vehicle only but not being able to collect from both. Go to
court if necessary.
court if necessary.
Its not about paying for both, its about how much the WSIB wants. 10% is downright ******* ridiculous. People complain about bike and car insurance? For every 5k made, I'm paying $500 for literally nothing, and its NOT optional. AND I have to pay that 10% on the entire payroll to boot. Just brutal.
We were hardest hit by both the exchange rate and the great recession due to our relative strength in the manufacturing sector. If we're going to reorient our economy to account for these macroeconomic changes, we need to spend money on infrastructure and services that benefit the sectors we want to target.
The alternative is to stay the course and hope those jobs all come back.
If that's what I thought I would have voted for them. But they are still less disastrous than the Conservatives.
Ya, I noticed that later. Still, it shouldn't have been such a close race based on the results from February.
What would you expect of what is basically an insurance company with a monopoly and government support because they are saving the children?
People were scared of the Conservative plan because it was for more free markets. I have said it before, people in Ontario have the socialist mindset. You have been led to believe that lower prices or deflation is dangerous. It's the opposite. Just get ready for a mass exist of many private jobs out of Ontario.
I will again, post this question, (and for the less mentally dexterous, substitute conservative for republican.)
If the stock market deflates so does everything else. Pensions, banks, insurance companies, deposit insurance, all invest in the stock market. What happens when the market tanks as it will some day? Doomsday?
The recent collapse was largely "Fixed" out of taxpayer pockets. What happens when they are empty.
Solution: Get a civil service job at above average pay with wages guaranteed by the government plus lots of other perks.
The economy isn't the stock market. The stock market is an artificial casino designed for corporations to raise funds without having to deal with banks as much, which in turn are also listed.
If the stock market collapses which it won't, just corrections, farmers will keep farming, miners will keep mining, doctors will keep seeing people and so on. The only people who might be directly affected are the 1%ers who might lay off some minimum wage workers in rage.
Remember, all CEO compensation in North America is based on the "stock price". If the stock price was to go down the fast way to raise it is not by growing the organization to make it stronger and more competitive but by laying off workers because a salary not paid is less outflow so the stock price goes up again.
It would be better for all of us if our companies did not have CEO compensation based on the stock price. (Nortel is a good example of a company that fudged the books for this reason.)
Then a different metric for success would be found.
In other news there is a Star article this morning about a WSIB investigator following a claimant around secretly so they could disallow benefits. She is on welfare now.
If the stock market collapses which it won't, just corrections, farmers will keep farming, miners will keep mining, doctors will keep seeing people and so on. The only people who might be directly affected are the 1%ers who might lay off some minimum wage workers in rage.
Remember, all CEO compensation in North America is based on the "stock price". If the stock price was to go down the fast way to raise it is not by growing the organization to make it stronger and more competitive but by laying off workers because a salary not paid is less outflow so the stock price goes up again.
It would be better for all of us if our companies did not have CEO compensation based on the stock price. (Nortel is a good example of a company that fudged the books for this reason.)
Then a different metric for success would be found.
In other news there is a Star article this morning about a WSIB investigator following a claimant around secretly so they could disallow benefits. She is on welfare now.
Did she deserve the WSIB benefits in the first place?
If the investigator was really good he should move over to investigating the traffic accident scams that the insurers are using as excuses to bump premiums.
You might also want to look at some of the analysis that shows California is using accounting tricks to hide something like an additional $400B in debt.
Who knows. I haven't read the file. But the WSIB gets bashed a bit in the article. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...teps_up_spying_on_clients_documents_show.html
Unfortunately with the levels of fraud out there, WSIB has to do something about it. Is what they're doing right? I can't really say. Ever heard of someone being off a job, because of an injury, but working at exactly the same job under the table?
Detroit is a great example. Detroit public sector was very well paid, but the city has been turned into ruins. I can tell you now, the city of Toronto is becoming Detroit.
Hyperbole. Detroit was a 1-industry town based on selling consumer goods that suffered along with many other places in the rust belt. Toronto isn't really a 1-industry town even if it looks that way because of the banks.
