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SEATTLE'S MINIMUM WAGE CRASH: $15 to ZERO! Profit's Take A Nosedive!
Threepersenter nation.com ^ | 11/18/2014 | Matt Duncan

Posted on 11/19/2014 8:08:22 AM PST by Beave Meister

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To: cuban leaf

Seattle libs: “Lookest thou over there.” Glad you were able to skidaddle from Seattle.


21 posted on 11/19/2014 8:28:47 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
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To: Beave Meister

From ForbesLast June:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/06/03/we-can-predict-the-effects-of-seattles-15-an-hour-minimum-wage/


22 posted on 11/19/2014 8:29:58 AM PST by Autonomous User (No 18 Holes after a Head Rolls.)
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To: Beave Meister

These Seattle hypocrite socialist leftists don’t shop around for the best price? Will they buy a $20 pizza just because the minimum wage is a ‘righteous’ $15? Their money meeting their mouths has a big schism between.


23 posted on 11/19/2014 8:31:14 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: boycott
They’ll just repackage their argument and say it’s the other guy’s fault.

Or "This isn't The One we were waiting for..."

24 posted on 11/19/2014 8:31:26 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Beave Meister
Learn the hard way
I'm not seeing any evidence that they can learn anything from experience.
25 posted on 11/19/2014 8:35:20 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Beave Meister
Business failures will only serve to validate Sawant and the other socialists' core principle - that businesses only survive by "exploiting" workers, which to them means paying less than the socialists would like. They'll expect the businesses to reopen as workers' collectives. So did Lenin in the beginning until the entire Russian economy went into the crapper. By 1921 the call was for a New Economic Policy, or "state capitalism". We've been down this road before.
26 posted on 11/19/2014 8:36:55 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Beave Meister

What is the legal basis of a city controlling the wage contract between employees and employers?


27 posted on 11/19/2014 8:38:35 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: Beave Meister

Fire all marginal employees and limit new hires to proven workers. Raise prices to cover increased expenses. That’ll solve it!


28 posted on 11/19/2014 8:38:42 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dfwgator

I thought Big Macs wre illegal in Seattlestan.


29 posted on 11/19/2014 8:38:54 AM PST by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: Beave Meister
The Liberals NEVER learn! They are an unthinking plague of Locusts that devastate one area before moving on to the next.

You just KNOW their "solution" for the loss of jobs in Seattle would be to expand their losing strategy so that job creators have no way to escape by moving out of the city.

30 posted on 11/19/2014 8:39:12 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Congrats to Gov. Walker on his Three-peat! Love my Gov!!!)
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To: boycott

“THEY NEVER LEARN.

They will never admit they’re wrong. They’ll just repackage their argument and say it’s the other guy’s fault.”

‘Like’


31 posted on 11/19/2014 8:39:28 AM PST by Em and Brets Mum ("Lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel." - Proverbs 20:15)
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To: Beave Meister

You know how the libs will answer that? They’ll say,” raise minimum wage everywhere so businesses can’t leave”.


32 posted on 11/19/2014 8:41:48 AM PST by dragonblustar (Jesus is Lord and Savior!! John 14:6)
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To: lonevoice

Can we hope, if only a little, that this might cause very blue Seattle to vote differently in 2016? I know, no way.


33 posted on 11/19/2014 8:41:57 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: SeeSharp

Liberals have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the realm of cold hard logic


34 posted on 11/19/2014 8:42:09 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Baynative

“The Pagliacci Pizza chain that does a lot of delivery is moving it’s call center out of the city. “

I have a great solution for ALL-:

build a WALL around the city- and do not let anyone move!
THEY must serve the council- or they are traitors-

(so don’t forget the barbed wire,dogs and armed snipers)


35 posted on 11/19/2014 8:43:21 AM PST by mj1234
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To: Beave Meister
We all know the $15 minimum wage is a disaster in the making, but libturds don't learn. In fact, there's this from 16 hours ago (sounds to me like they're fairly proud of their socialist conquests):

Seattle Is Doing What No Other City in America Has Done

Highlights include:

The City Council has doubled down on its trend-setting $15 wage by accelerating its implementation for city workers, ensuring the wage will be raised in 2015 rather than being phased in over the course of the next three years.

So I guess this would preclude any type of lessons being learned by the libturds?

36 posted on 11/19/2014 8:46:19 AM PST by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: Beave Meister

U-Haul dealers rub hands.


37 posted on 11/19/2014 8:48:25 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Beave Meister

I don’t support the new law, but it hasn’t even gone into effect yet, and the $15-an-hour rate doesn’t kick in for about five years, and the mandatory wage varies depending on the size of the business and the age of the employee. It’s way too soon to evaluate the effect of the law, despite the handful of businesses that are taking proactive action. One unintended consequence may be that businesses hire only young people who aren’t subject to the full brunt of the law, then let them go when they turn 21.


38 posted on 11/19/2014 8:49:43 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Beave Meister

When Sawant refers to “No unintended consequences”, that is Socialist speak meaning”

“The owner must accept a smaller profit and income margins and distribute their unjust wage to the workers.”


39 posted on 11/19/2014 8:55:16 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Beave Meister

How did you get that quote from that web site? It appears to have disabled copying and pasting.


40 posted on 11/19/2014 9:00:38 AM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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