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Massachusetts Senate overwhelmingly approves minimum wage increase to $11 an hour
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Posted on 11/22/2013 6:26:09 PM PST by matt04
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Opponents, including some business leaders, said that an increase would hike costs for businesses and could prompt layoffs. No s*^%. In a few years they will be wondering why everything costs more and people are laid off or see hours slashed.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:26:09 PM PST
by
matt04
To: matt04
Look for massive layoffs for minimum wage employees ... stupid, stupid, stupid.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:29:18 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened!)
To: matt04
Probably not so many layoffs. Most likely just never getting jobs to begin with.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:32:01 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: matt04
If $11.00 is good, why isn’t $110.00 ten times better. No liberal will answer that.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:33:01 PM PST
by
cdcdawg
(Be seeing you...)
To: matt04
The bill for the first time would index the state's minimum wage to inflation. Starting in 2016, the minimum wage would rise each year at the same rate as the consumer price index for the Northeast.
Gee, think there will be a sort of symmetry between the Massachusetts unemployment rate and the inflation rate? Come hyperinflation, things will get very entertaining.
This cesspool of a state also recently indexed its gas tax for inflation. I hope to escape someday.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:33:19 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: matt04
“The Massachusetts Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to raise the state’s minimum wage from $8 an hour to $11 an hour over three years,”
The Massachusetts Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to bar entry level and many other low-skilled workers from employment.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:35:22 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:36:03 PM PST
by
shineon
(.)
To: lepton
Exactly. So there more likely to vote democratic(as if they did not do so already).
To: cdcdawg
close the growing gap between the rich and poor, why not 150.00 an hr? so there will be no gap...
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:36:40 PM PST
by
JoanneSD
To: doc1019
Look for massive layoffs for minimum wage employees ... stupid, stupid, stupid. And look for massive wage increases for union labor -- whose contracts are often tied to some multiple of the minimum wage.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. But only if you're trying to improve the state's economy, instead of rewarding a political crony.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:37:17 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
To: LostInBayport
This cesspool of a state also recently indexed its gas tax for inflation. At least it's cheaper than CT gas prices.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:37:59 PM PST
by
matt04
To: matt04
Don’t worry. Once they legalize the new 30Million Democrat voters, they will import more Mexicans to work under the table at these jobs. The newly minted Democrats will be on welfare along with the rest of us.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:39:05 PM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: matt04
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:39:39 PM PST
by
szweig
(HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
To: matt04
One supporter, Sen. Mark C. Montigny, a New Bedford Democrat, said the bill might help close the growing gap between the rich and poor. "Tens of thousands of people are working full time and living below the poverty level," Montigny said. "It is inexcusable."
No, fool. It means more won't be working full time and will be jobless...with an even wider gap between rich and poor.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:40:08 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
To: matt04
As Rush says every few years: “why 11 dollars an hour?”. “Why not 25 or 30 dollars an hour?”
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:40:56 PM PST
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: doc1019
More and more of those jobs will be automated away.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:43:57 PM PST
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
The minimum wage law dates back to 1938.
218 representatives, 51 senators, and 1 president could repeal it.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:44:47 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: BerryDingle
“As Rush says every few years: why 11 dollars an hour?. Why not 25 or 30 dollars an hour?”
Has anyone noticed if you go out for breakfast it’s $25+ for two people?
That’s on the cheap side. This inflation that can’t be mentioned is getting really expensive....../S
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:46:54 PM PST
by
9422WMR
(: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
To: matt04
The libs continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:49:46 PM PST
by
Thunder90
(All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
To: matt04
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posted on
11/22/2013 6:56:47 PM PST
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Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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