Posted on 10/07/2015 4:40:35 PM PDT by markomalley
Said the multi-millionaire who’ll never have to pay for anything for the rest of his life.
This from a man who makes millions and pays for nothing.
A third of us have no employment. We can’t pay any more for anything. And higher wages mean even less jobs and more people put out of work. This is just another of Obama ‘s weaken- America proposals. More and more Americans forced onto welfare
Surely he realizes...”
Surely you jest.
“He argued that there was therefore no practical reason for anyone to oppose a hike.”
Well, let’s see here, what about the fact that rising prices will erode any increase in purchasing power that minimum wage workers obtain, giving them little to no benefit from the policy?
Or the fact that employers are guaranteed to lay off the lowest wage, lowest productivity employees since they won’t be worth employing at a higher wage?
How about the fact that prices will also rise for any products we are trying to sell overseas, making it even more difficult for us to compete in foreign markets?
That’s three reasons, extemporaneously, off the top of my head.
Sure they will, they don’t pay for it anyway, we do.
1.) Hear minimum wage raised by 50%
2.) Order half-dozen food ordering kiosks
3.) Fire the least productive dozen employees
4.) Then prices don't need to be raised. Revenues and profits stay about the same!
Obama, muslim scum, never worked a day in is life, so how would he know.
The days of amateurs running this country are over....
Good odea. I’ve tipped-obertped, in fact-all my life. I hardly eat out at all now-the Jesse Jackson factor multiplied by BlackLiesMatter. But if I do, I’ll make sure to find out what the servers’ pay scale is before I decide whether or not to tip. Maybe I’ll ask the server who they voted for before I decide, too.
His attempt to gloss it over is weak. A lot of people struggle just to survive. I live in a rural area, and I see people searching dumpsters. I never saw suburban people panhandling or squatting until obama.
My husband has worked a second job as a server part-time for over 40 years. Unfortunately, when he was terminated from his sales job two years ago, right before he turned 60, he became a full time waiter, albeit in a swanky steak house that charges 40 bucks for just the steak. He makes a wage of $5.05/hr plus tips, and most of the year he makes about $35 bucks an hour. He’s good at what he does and is very experienced, so he deserves every penny. No server of his caliber would work for only $12/hour and no tips.
“I’ll bet that a lot of folks here, if they go to a restaurant, and they know that the people working there are making a living wage, the fact that they may be paying an extra dollar for a burger, would feel OK,” “
If he is talking about a 20 percent increase then the typical family of five hamburger night out would go up by ten bucks. That ‘if they go’ he states would become ‘they no longer go’.
This arrogant jerk does not speak for me.
So you raise the hourly rate and the price of goods goes up accordingly...so were is anyone getting ahead...not the worker because now everything costs more and not the customer because everything costs more and not the business because everything costs more...Way to screw things up Obama...again
I already don’t tip in places with a minimum wage above $10/hr, so not much effect on my bottom line.
Seniors and minimum-wage earners hardest hit
And don’t those same poor people, that Zero professes to care so much about, now owe taxes on that additional income? They also may lose their welfare freebies like food stamps and subsidized housing and Pell grants. It’s a good thing for them that Zero loves them so, lol.
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