You say that like it is a bad thing.
We got a long way to go baby.
Posted on 07/18/2019 11:48:07 AM PDT by conservative98
The House of Representatives approved the Raise the Wage Act Thursday, which would boost the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade.
In a 231-199 vote along party lines, the House passed the legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, more than double the current rate of $7.25. In an even more drastic increase, the bill calls for having the same minimum wage for tipped workers, raising it from $2.13 an hour.
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Winning. I love the easy and straight forward customization the kiosks give.
So who will do the work, you?
And raising the minimum wage causes a concomitant increase in the wages of those further up the chain. The $15 becomes the floor forcing employers to raise the wages of other than entry level. If they don’t you have wage compression.
You say that like it is a bad thing.
We got a long way to go baby.
You will need to raise the prices of food to generate the profits to cover the increased overhead costs. Restaurants operate on a slim profit margin.
Yep. It’s the way of the solo practitioner.
To avoid any misunderstanding, is it correct to say that you support the government mandating what employers must pay their workers?
That could be...I would rather see something like a mandatory raise after a certain period of time...Like $2.50 raise after three years...Another raise after 5 years...
So that would include everyone, even those of us who live in low income areas? I work at a hospital in a low income area, we are barely surviving, $15 minimum would surely close this hospital. All secretaries, kitchen, housekeeping, business office and maintenance people make less than that.
I can actually see where there are places where $15 an hour is needed but in low cost areas (you can get a nice house for $70-$80k) it would mess things up. This is something that should be decided state by state.
You know what??? Just forget my last post...Wages just ought to be what the employer sets for the employee...If it’s not enough, the employee leaves...
These a-holes no full well what this will do to the job market and what companies will do in response. Politicians are pure scum.
The federal government should not be dictating wages. Wages are a function of the marketplace. The real problem is a surplus of labor fueled by mass immigration. Importing an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor is depressing wages. If we really had a labor shortage, wages would be going up, not down or staying stagnant since 1969.
Artificially raising wages by government fiat is not the answer unless you are a socialist.
I think that the true cost of things is higher than we understand. We are living above our means. Only government subsidies, welfare are enabling our high standard of living. And we’ve been doing this for a long time.
This would put my company out of business!!! You don't have a clue what your talking about. It won't take more off welfare...it will put more on it.
It is a bad thing if you are a business owner and see your overhead costs increase without additional revenue. If you raise prices, you become less competitive. Why is that such a difficult concept to understand?
Can you imagine if you this ever passed and you make $16 an hour right now?
How freakin pissed you would be.
There is no delegated power given the federal to set a minimum wage law that would be applicable anywhere within the jurisdiction of a State. The 10th Amendment therefore forbids them.
Nor is there a power to regulate things which merely affect commerce between the States but are not in fact actually commerce between the States.
Moreover the commerce clause, what was actually agreed to when the Constitution was ratified, was only about using federal power to prevent the States from using their authority to interfere with interstate commerce. It had nothing to do with what private persons did on their own when choosing to engage in commerce.
The 1930s was the decade the Constitution was kicked to the curb by a lawless Court. Progressives, lovers of Arbitrary government, have only built on that.
Raising the *federal* minimum wage means sticking it to the taxpayers.
Taxpayers pay federal workers’ wages, remember?
Janitors, trash picker-uppers, park workers, congressional aides...and more do-nothing patronage jobs will be doled out to constituents & their relatives, guaranteed.
If they ever force a full wage for tipped workers, I will probably stop tipping for anything except exceptional service. Because it wouldn’t be fair to all the other workers who just do their job for the salary they agreed to, if some workers got the same salary, and also got bribes because they were the “face” of the service.
Doing everything they can to raise those unemployment numbers and appease their communist base. It still won’t fix Nancy’s constipation of thought.
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