[rb22982]

If you want the entire hotel industry to shut down, sure. I'm sure that will be conducive to all business when folks can't travel and people have no where to go or eat out at. We're making do with overtime, which is expensive of course, but not a great solution.

I'm all for higher wages where they make sense and over time, but you just can't compete with $40k/year to do nothing. I make more than 10x amount personally, but if I could guarantee the gov would give me (and my wife) $40k/year combined with my current net worth - even I'd stop working. Why work 80 hour weeks in a high stress environment?

I know you are the resident cheerleader for just saying "Pay more!" on this site, and I agree with you on illegal labor and limiting legal immigration, but the answer to every problem is not "Pay more." A lot of times its get the government out of the way, as is the situation here.

[dinodino]

Well said.

[central_va]

Wrong. There may be less hotels paying more and costing the customer more. But there will be hotels. There will be 10 hotels paying $10.00/hr for labor or 7 hotels paying $15.00 for labor.

[grey_whiskers]

What do you do for a living?

Useless executive? Or sales?

[goodnesswins]

What is not discussed here is that not only are many getting $16/hr to not work..their girlfriends are getting housing, food, medical benefits, etc. too...government (leftists) ruin everything