Where to begin.
Tuesday, Kings Island, a SW Ohio Amusement park, announced that they were going to discontinue bus service for some of it's workers, youth from the city of Cincinnati.
Historically, Kings Island recruited lots of kids from the city and provided transportation for them up to Kings Island. They then announced they were cutting the service, essentially eliminating job opportunities for hundreds of intercity kids.
Why? If you guessed the increase in the minimum wage, you get to move to the head of the class. So all those kids who had opportunities before the hike just got to watch what do gooder liberalism does in practice. No one would say publicly because it's probably politically incorrect but when the wage hike went up Kings Island could no longer afford to give job opportunities to at risk kids; higher wages require higher productivity. So they just give those jobs to suburban kids.
Ah, but why kill a liberal do-gooder program that doesn't work when you can create another. The City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County announced that they would subsidize the program so the buses keep running. Never mind that Kings Island does not pay either Cincinnati or Hamilton County taxes of any kind. This is how government works.
In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan
If a liberal see something and it moves, they tax it.
If it keeps moving, they regulate it.
When it quits moving, they subsidize it.
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