[Seattle's $15] Minimum wage limbo keeps [liberal] small business owners up at night

kuow.org ^ | May 22, 2014 | Deborah Wang

[grundle]

Seattle business owners who support the city's new $15 minimum wage in theory, say they worry that it might prevent them from expanding their businesses and creating new jobs.

There aren't greedy conservatives. Instead, these are liberals and progressives. But even they acknowledge that the city's new minimum wage might prevent them from expanding their businesses and creating new jobs.

This is from nine months ago, but it didn't show up when I searched the archives.

[knarf]

The Law Of Unintended Consequences

[Intolerant in NJ]

Jody Hall, owner of Cupcake Royale, was an early supporter of the mayor's plan to raise the minimum wage to $15. Now she is having serious second thoughts...if only leftwingers would learn to think beyond the ends of their uplifted noses to the consequences of their naive do-gooderism.......

[Dilbert San Diego]

Interesting to see liberal minded business people seeing a liberal cause of the day, the minimum wage, causing them business headaches. Even a liberal business person can see that they can’t just pass along these increased costs to their customers, without consequences. And the consequences are job losses and/or their business models just don’t make financial sense with such a high minimum wage.

[Fungi]

How did they arrive at the $15 dollar figure? Why not $15.01, or $16.00, or how about $17.00—and do I hear $23.67? Why not a hundred dollars an hour? It should be obvious, but to the socialists—yes, let us call them that, as that is what they are—they have no clue about economics and freedom. Look how the NY Slime views this: the right minimum wage: 0.00. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/opinion/the-right-minimum-wage-0.00.html

[smokingfrog]

Second thoughts, eh?

No problem. Just raise your prices. (or buy a robot cupcake maker)

[PGR88]

The Law Of Unintended, but Totally Predictable Consequences

[workerbee]

Jody Hall deserves to lose her business(es), the dingbat.

[headstamp 2]

“But after publicly endorsing his efforts, she is having serious second thoughts. “I really have a hard time,” Hall said. “Even though I signed support for a seven-year phase in with the mayor, this is keeping me up at night like nothing ever has.”

Oh my, a liberal figured out it was going to cost them some of their OWN money.

[Steely Tom]

Jody Hall, owner of Cupcake Royale, was an early supporter of the mayor's plan to raise the minimum wage to $15. Now she is having serious second thoughts.

There's no room for second thoughts in socialist paradise.

[Steely Tom]

Jody Hall deserves to lose her business(es), the dingbat.

Yeah. Low-Information Business Owners don't last long.

[knarf]

yep ... thanx ... I NEEDED that

/8^)

[GraceG]

http://www.sprinkles.com/locations

they have automated cupcakes

[gusopol3]

[South40]

[catnipman]

Wow, this is going to be a full-employment act for all the cities that surround Seattle!

[llevrok]

The Law Of Unintended Consequences

The interesting thing about "progressives" is while hating large business and wanting to "buy local", their actions are unintentionally making life impossible for small, owner operated businesses.

Seattle has become so financially elite that small and medium sized businesses can not afford rents nor real property. Ditto for lower echelon employees even at $15/hour wages.

[llevrok]

WA state ping

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Whatever happened to good old progressive economics...”from each according to yada yada...”?

Greedy capitalist swine! Just absorb those costs; share your excess profits with your laboring proles!

[MasterGunner01]

Notice that some of these liberal small business owners still support the $15.00 per hour minimum wage, but will open businesses outside the Seattle city limits. That’s called eating your cake and having it too. If they had guts, they’d tell their employees what this stupid policy will have on their business and job and they’d move all their businesses out of Seattle.