WA PingIn this speech he almost makes sense at times. But, he doesn't seem to understand how to achieve what he preaches. I think it's because his liberal mind clouds his thinking.
I wonder what he pays his low level and unskilled workers.
But, as we learned during the 2014 mid-term elections, far-left billionaires (like Tom Steyer) don’t always get their way—no matter how much money they pump into Democrat campaigns. According to the Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat, Hanauer isn’t too pleased with lawmakers in Olympia. Specifically, he is quite upset with the impending prospect of Republicans in the state Senate stopping the statewide $12 minimum wage bill, which the state House passed last week.
In fact, Hanauer is so upset he has made an outright threat. He told Westneat that if the Legislature doesn’t pass the $12 minimum wage bill, he would go to the ballot with “a statewide $16-an-hour minimum-wage initiative in 2016.” The initiative, which he calls “$16 in ‘16” is something Hanauer say he is “dead serious” about doing.
Hey Nick, can I get 2 or 3 hundred million from you? No? Why not? Put you money where your mouth is.
What happened to $15/hr?
WA PingIn this speech he almost makes sense at times. But, he doesn't seem to understand how to achieve what he preaches. I think it's because his liberal mind clouds his thinking.
I wonder what he pays his low level and unskilled workers.
When a rich person meddles in the life of the public with such matters it is an indication as to the morals of the rich and the methods they used to get the money
All this does is ruin the little guy.
The big retailers and box stores will suffer, but they will cope and most will survive.
The neighborhood stores (what few are left), the small town stores (ditto), the independent guys and gals-—to HELL with them.
As usual all the Leftist power and money in these cases seems to tend toward crushing the individual.
If they raise it to $16, what are they planning to do about people in higher-skilled jobs who already make $16?
On the day you wake up to find that your money is vapor, how much power will you have?
Goody! He’s going to use his billions to help keep burger flippers in fries.
I’ve been thinking about this theory that super rich tend to be liberal for subconscious recognition that placating the poor and credit enslaved contributes to the status quo and therefore secures their wealth and influence.
However, it’s OP [middle class] money mostly that they use. If they used their own money nobody would care.
It seems to me the harder that one has to work to attain an element of success, the more conservative they will become.
IF the republicans were smart and really wanted to have fun they would simply pass a New Wealth Tax, say 5% annually, to be applied to persons with a Net Worth of $1 Billion Dollars or more, All revenues to be distributed equally to those in the State earning Minimum Wage.
Put it right back on Him!
Allow illegals to storm the borders, tax the hell out of people who create jobs, raise the minimum wage, force ObamaScamOcare on employers, yet they want us to believe the unemployment rate is 5.9%
...and when ALL the Proletariat make a livable $16 an hour...that’s everyone but “me and mine” - it will be a perfectly ‘changed’ country..../s
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Why doesn’t he start a pilot program using his own money, he doesn’t even have to pay 16 an hour just enough to all the people who live in his city, extra wages to bring them up to 16 an hour until the schmuck runs out of money.
If it works so great in his city maybe we can think about it...
Amazon Kiva robots
Vending machines. Card swipe to pay. Restocked by a multi-location "rover". All the human employees are gone. Exactly what happened to my company cafeteria.
Billionaires like Hanauer are pushing minimum wage increases hoping that people will forget that the middle class is dying. A $16 minimum wage translates to a little over $32,000 a year. In 120 years, that person will be able to afford the down payment on a house in Seattle.
Is this $16 per hour for an American citizen or $16 per hour for an illegal invader? Which person would a Chamber of Amnesty member choose and why? How would the American citizen voter feel if the Chamber of Amnesty member chooses the illegal invader over them? Who then would the American citizen vote for?