When will liberals learn that the liars at the top of socialism don’t care a wit about them?! Their promises of Pleasure Island are for jackasses (ask Pinocchio.)
Posted on 06/19/2018 7:40:53 PM PDT by caww
D.C. voters backed Initiative 77 Tuesday, raising the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, up from the current level of $12.50, and phasing out the $3.33 an hour minimum wage for tipped workers. With just under 90 percent of the precincts reporting in at press time, the margin was 55-44 percent.
The effort had been 'championed by organized labor and liberal groups'... but opposed by the restaurant industry as well as city government leaders.
D.C. previously allowed tipped workers to be paid $3.33 an hour but required employers to make up the difference if that plus tips did not equal the city's minimum wage of $12.50 an hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hey....why not make it $50 per hour.
Good to know. I won’t tip any wait staff when eating in DC
Simply move your business. DC is a cesspool any way. I like Arlington and do all my business there.
I, for one, welcome our robot servers.
Nor will I feel the need to rush my dinner to open the table.
It was really about tracking incomes. Some people, in the right restaurants were earning as much doctors in tips and it was untaxed.
... or unreported? ...
*D.C. is not a State..they can do what they want there...its Majority Rule...
Truthfully, I’m surprised that in past the USG hasn’t just nationalized all of D.C. First of all, instead of decaying tenements over rotting infrastructure, they could have new buildings, good roads, almost no crime, lots of open space for parks and memorials, and they could even eliminate most automobile road traffic, except for VIPs and embassies.
For parade routes, they could use covered moving sidewalks as are popular in airport concourses, that could move a lot of pedestrian traffic much faster.
It would need delivery routes in the background, with lots of trucks going into and out of a central terminal outside of the city, with their cargoes transferred to an underground cargo rail. Most parking would be outside of the city as well, with lots of public transportation.
The businesses inside the city, even the Watergate hotel complex, would be leased, not owned.
And the march of the laid-off workers to begin protesting in 3...2...1....
This is what the NY Slime once advocated: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/opinion/the-right-minimum-wage-0.00.html
Hey, another good excuse for cheapskates and a subset of black women (sorry, but it’s the voice of experience) to not tip. Restaurant workers are going to love it — not!
Tipping should go the way of the Dodo bird with these wage hikes. The tip is built-in to the price of the meal or drinks when they get paid regular wages.
The not-so-good waitresses and bartenders will likely end up with more in their pocket but the good ones will probably end up with less unless they also get tips; which they might. For their sakes I hope so.
There was an article about this very recently—nearly all of the workers wanted to keep the current system. It was the labor unions and their political allies who wanted the change.
Surge in applications for VA restaurant occupational licenses in 3,2,1...
This scheme of passing laws that take effect years down the road is cowardly and disingenuous. If it is such a good idea, then it should be made effective now. Which pretty much tells you why it isn’t.
Wow. They’re really anxious to see scores of people at the low end of the spectrum fired.
I’m simply DONE TIPPING. With $15/hr, the tip is already INCLUDED in the price of the meal - which is how it works in most other countries.
Tipping was basically a US idea, and like everything else American, the Left has destroyed it - so no more tipping!
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