[Logical me]

Since when is any State or DC have the right to set wages to a private company? Oh, forgot. Communists America.

[Terry L Smith]

Good! So when the folks are sitting home, jobless, they can look to their wise, elder town council, that they voted into office, and thank them!

[jocon307]

If the mayor is smart he’ll veto this.

[oldbrowser]

$8.25 per hour is actually an exponentially better wage than the amount of zero that comes from not working.

Let see, collecting unemployment, welfare, food stamps, free medical, Obama phones, etc., and sit home on the one hand. On the other hand go to work every day and get $8.25/hr. They can't afford to work.

Secondly think like a marxist, consider the government/union jobs that will be lost when these people are no longer eligible for "entitlements". Consider the lost Democrat voters when these people have to pay taxes out of their own paychecks.

[upchuck]

“Brother Bob” is trying to stir up trouble where, maybe, there isn’t any.

Wal*Mart won’t do anything until Mayor Gray either passes or vetoes the bill.

[Dilbert San Diego]

“We don’t need retailers. Retailers need us.”

Well, he’s not quite understanding certain things. People who reside in the District of Columbia currently drive to nearby Maryland and Virginia suburbs to shop at stores such as Target and Wal-Mart. The sales tax they pay stays in those jurisdictions. Among other benefits, D.C. would have gotten a great deal of sales tax revenue if Wal-Mart was located in the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Instead, if people go out of the District to shop, the District loses sales tax revenue.

Yes, while retailers need “us” or customers, Wal-Mart already benefits by attracting D.C. shoppers to their stores in Maryland or Virginia. The District is the loser, since they lose sales tax, property tax, income tax, and other tax revenue by the stores NOT being located in the District. This councilman is clearly not thinking about any of that.

[matt04]

Unionized businesses are exempt from the measure. Large stores that already have a presence in D.C., including Target (TGT) and Macy’s (M), have four years to comply.

How long before Target or Macy's decide those store aren't profitable anymore, or remodel them to just under 75K SF?

[kingu]

This is the best part... Washington D.C. doesn't get the 6 percent sales tax from all those sales at WalMart, and instead will lose it to the states that surround the district as customers are the ultimate arbitrators of where to shop...

Gosh, all those vote buying dollars gone... Oops.

[jimsin]

LOOK....who knows how to run a profitable multi national conglomerate better? the WALMART BOARD OF DIRECTORS or THE GENIUSES ON THE DC City Council?..... I rest my case:

TOADY SEZ:



LET THE COUNCIL DO IT BWAHAHAHA

[Intolerant in NJ]

Job killing leftists have chalked up another victory..I actually caught a woman analyst on RT the other day giving an impassioned tirade against the idea of minimum wage laws - all the facts you'd expect from a Tea Partier - minimum wages kill jobs, lead to inflation etc etc and the only way to improve the workers' situation is to improve the economy through efficiency and productiveness - Russian Television of all sources teaching US leftwingers the facts of life......