Posted on 08/21/2016 3:03:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As recently as last year, the Democratic Party’s leaders thought the idea of a $15 federal minimum wage was unrealistic and even pushed back against it. That ended in July when the official party platform, bowing to pressure from organized labor and Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters, adopted a call for a $15 federal minimum, more than double the current rate of $7.25 an hour. […]
When Seattle increased its minimum to $15 in 2014, a boost of nearly $6 an hour, it also commissioned a study of the increase’s effect by the University of Washington. A report released in July found that an increase to $11 an hour in April 2015, the first part of the phase-in (the $15 rate will not go into effect until 2017), had not benefited Seattle’s low-wage workers.
Instead, it resulted in modest declines to their employment rates and hours worked. While the workers did experience boosts in earnings overall, the report found the increases would have happened without the higher minimum thanks to the region’s growing economy. …
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Really?
Raise it to $25!
25.00? How do you feed a family of 20 chilun on dat?
Duh. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics could have predicted this. Oh wait, many FReepers did.
Too bad the people who implemented it could not possibly care less about the travails of the poor, beyond the degree to which they can grandstand while standing on a stage made from their bodies.
Reality meets Socialist Ideal. Which will win?
Really? Hello common sense.
Buncha RAT idiots running things.
This is similar to the Fed printing money. Artificially and temporarily stimulates but is devastating in the long run.
Unfortunately, the Poor are poor for a reason. Many don’t have a clue as to how to make money and keep money. They think businesses have to employ them and can issue money like the federal government can, the ATM concept of business.That’s why they are almost always disappointed by politicians who make big promises to the Poor with full knowledge that they will not keep them.
I understand, but don't accept, the argument that the federal government's constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce may be construed to grant that authority in limited circumstances where crossing of state lines may be involved.
But if a local business wants to pay its local employees $4 an hour, how is imposing a standard minimum wage a valid exercise of federal authority?
You can’t legislate what the market won’t bare.
As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
But you know that Gomer was never that surprised.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Common sense and history shows that raising the minimum wage results in increases in the cost of living. Such increases seldom result in net gains for the hourly workers.
It is just like when the Medicare Part D drug plan was passed by Congress. That month, a generic prescription I had increased by 50%. I had no drug coverage, so that prescription was totally out-of-pocket.
If I were thinking about putting in a business that uses unskilled labor in the Seattle area, I’d look at the best location OUTSIDE city limits. I’d also be wary of on-going incorporation efforts as well.
All of these SOCIALIST politicians have never learned what King Canute/Knut/Cnut tried to teach his minions; (paraphrase) “Being a king does not give absolute power. You cannot tell the tide to go backwards! Only God can do that”
Color me shocked!
All wages should be the same. Whether you are a doctor, an engineer, a gardener, a plumber, a burger flipper, or the guy who puts cotton into aspirin bottles. All wages should be the same regardless of specialty or training or skills. Everybody should take home the same amount whether they work 10 hours or 40 or even a hundred hours a week, whether their job is dangerous or cushy, whether they work 1 day a week or up to 45 days in a row 15 hours a day every day. Whether they work close to home, at home or thousands of miles from home. Whether they are off work the second they leave work, or are expected to be on call 24/7 and ready to travel on a moments notice. Whether they can sleep a comfy night or have to be ready to respond to a crisis be it an accident, a chemical spill, looters hell bent to burn the city to the ground, or even a terrorist attack. Everybody should have the same wages. Except of couse union people whos wages are calculated as minimum wage times a multiplier. /rant
“Unfortunately, the Poor are poor for a reason”
This.
And to say so is the gravest PC sin.
Seattle’s union workers with contracts tying their wage to the minimum, on the other hand, are doing great - and stepping up those automatic contributions to the Defenders of the Welfare State.
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