Posted on 04/29/2015 4:34:57 PM PDT by george76
The owner of Z Pizza says she’s being forced to close her doors, because she can’t afford the higher labor costs.
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Ritu Shah Burnham doesn’t want to go out of business, but says she can’t afford the city’s mandated wage hikes.
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Shah Burnham is concerned about where her employees will end up when she does close. “I absolutely am terrified for them. I have no idea where they’re going to find jobs, because if I’m cutting hours, I imagine everyone is across the board.”
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Looks like their wages just got cut to zero.
Gee, who didn’t see this coming?
Thats discriminatory. She should be forced to stay open or be fined $100,000 a day.
Mark my words.
I have to find the article, but there was some moonbat out in Washington saying exactly this! FINE THEM to keep them in business. What the Hell sort of whacked out world are we living in?
I believe it.
No doubt in my mind.
Funny thing, I've heard the exact argument above, then the same person griping about how prices are going up.
Liberals imagine everything is done with someone else’s dollar. They missed the fact that we ran out of other people's money a very long time ago.
Well obviously....the inmates (liberals/lefties) are running the asylum now. Is anyone surprised at how loony they are acting, now that they’ve been empowered by the leftist CIC, his leftist minions and the leftist media? I’m not.
Maybe she can curry sympathy by saying that she would cater a gay wedding.
And so it begins ...waiting for the activists to protest the store closing ....
In a good economy (not this) raising prices to cover the increased labor cost would work. In this economy, business owners will lose customers...since most folks are already struggling to pay bills and for basic necessities...and have little to nothing left over for eating out. This minimum wage mandate will price many Americans out of a lot of things. Quite deliberately, of course.
All of this is being fueled by the unions. And, the unions are in the Marxist Camp. Just Google: communism unions minimum wage. You will all get eye openers.
It turns out the REAL minimum wage is $0.00.
Question #1. Did She Vote for the Politicians who came up with this fiasco?
If so, too bad, Her dream of Liberal Utopia has arrived.
If not, welcome to Fundamental Change.
Question #2. Did any of Her Loyal Employees Vote for the Politicians who came up with this fiasco?
If so, screw them. They deserve what they Voted for.
If not, remind them of what Fundamental Change really means.
I’d raise my prices to meet the increase...and post a big sign in the front window.
Thats probably illegal in liberalland.
Directive 10-289. It’s coming.
So is civil war.
Directive 10-289
In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people’s security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufactured or sold after the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.
Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.
Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final.
It's even more critical in the mom and pop establishments.
What’s going to happen here is a “technical” redistribution. This, and other businesses like hers, will fold or be sold at a significant depreciation to their value in a $7.50/hour world, but the newcomers who buy up the wreckage (the politically connected, nepots, etc...) will be able to miraculously succeed because a huge chunk of their cost structure will have been whisked away in the new mortgage or lease to be paid on the depreciated asset.
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