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.
1 posted on
11/22/2013 6:26:09 PM PST by
matt04
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To: matt04
Look for massive layoffs for minimum wage employees ... stupid, stupid, stupid.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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: 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.
12 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
13 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.
14 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?”
15 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)
The minimum wage law dates back to 1938.
218 representatives, 51 senators, and 1 president could repeal it.
17 posted on
11/22/2013 6:44:47 PM PST by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: matt04
The libs continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
19 posted on
11/22/2013 6:49:46 PM PST by
Thunder90
(All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
To: matt04
20 posted on
11/22/2013 6:56:47 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: matt04
said the bill might help close the growing gap between the rich and poor. Yea, well guess what... the price of things will just keep going higher and higher to compensate, as will the pay for skilled jobs. The "gap between rich and poor" will probably increase as a result.
To: matt04
Why not $20 per hour?
Government knows better than the free market place.
27 posted on
11/22/2013 7:13:13 PM PST by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
To: matt04
More businesses will simply shut down in MA. Makes much more sense to expand in a business friendly state versus paying a premium for the same labor in states like MA.
Then those unemployed can go on the state and federal teats under the whole state goes belly up.
33 posted on
11/22/2013 7:26:18 PM PST by
Gabrial
(The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
To: matt04
a New Bedford Democrat, said the bill might help close the growing gap between the rich and poor. Finally. Wouldn't want them to be unequal in any way, whatsoever.
35 posted on
11/22/2013 7:30:10 PM PST by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: matt04
so the criminals in MA just pushed a 40% wage increase to the unions
gee... how convenient
37 posted on
11/22/2013 7:31:39 PM PST by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: matt04
Good. Good. Send those jobs to Virginia.
38 posted on
11/22/2013 7:32:35 PM PST by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: matt04; All
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics...which we know tries to make Obama look good...so figure these numbers are even higher in the blue states....
It will be interesting to see where Taxachusetts ranks after this law passes and takes effect.
Seriously, Democrats constantly double down on dumb.
To: matt04
This will guarantee that young black males can’t get jobs.
42 posted on
11/22/2013 8:03:07 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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