Posted on 06/25/2004 4:52:15 AM PDT by JesseHousman
...City Councilor Matthew Ortiz, the ordinance's main sponsor, said he hoped businesses would not continue their court challenge "but instead use that money they spend on the lawsuit to pay their workers."
Politicians, like these weasels, need to keep their greasy hands off small businesses and steer away from raising the minimum wage!
This is Kerry's plan after "election": to raise the minimum wage!
Why not raise it to $20, $50, or even to the level that senators make?
This proves, if quoted correctly, these meddling imbeciles aree clueless:
He also said the businesses couldn't have had a "reasonable expectation" that the minimum wage wouldn't be raised at some point by federal, state or local government.
That's right, stupid. They "couldn't have had an expectation that was reasonable that the meddling fed, state or local governments would be so ignorant of economic fact and consequences!
"Businesses opposed to the law are expected to appeal." if there is time before they go OUT of business.
There's a reason we call this place "Fanta Se"
It will be interesting to see it fall apart when the tourist dollars dry up.
Or at least out of Santa Fe, then New Mexico, then the U.S.
The $12.95 Taco dinner just went up to $24.95.
Already having a reputation for exhorbitantly high prices, I fail to see how this helps anyone.
These "living wage" proponents are nothing short of parasites. Too many of them will ultimately kill the host.
Well, it's like the sponsor of the bill stated: Businesses should start paying the increased wages out of the money they would have spent for litigation.
The glass ceiling on growth will now be 24 employees.
That's why you're not a liberal, my FRiend.
Wait til you see a robot passing out the taco salad out the Taco Bell drive up window and then you'll know it's all over.
The two people who claimed that both of those points were invalid were Michael Savage and Bob Brinker from Money Talks. I am *not* a fan of Michael Savage, but this still surprised me. But, Bob Brinker has always stuck me as being fairly conservative. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
Is there a place to get stats on the two points I mentioned above?
Well, how about a minimum house, a minimum car, a minimum dinner, a minimum pair of shoes.
All the city needs now is an ordinance to prevent businesses from laying off workers whose skills aren't worth $8.50 per hour, and another ordinance to prevent them from not hiring any such person in the future. Good luck, guys.
Communities have broad powers to prevent low productivity workers from working in their communities.
I've read reams of information over the years about what happens after the federales jack up the miniumum wage. It leads to layoffs of these low wage earners and contributes to the total numbers of teenagers who are unable to find work. The number of unemployed black teenagers is over 40% and much of that can be traced to the minimum wage being hiked by poltical edict.
Actually most of what is done by low paid workers in in a fast food franchise can be done by low maintenance machines. A McD could probably be handled by one attending employee. Everything else could be done with slots and dollar bill readers and assembly lines and automativc microwaves.Santa Fe's MW law might allow the surviving franchises to pave the way for the whole country, then the world.
If I promise not to sue you, will you send me $1,000? It'll save you the price of a lawyer.
This cuts two ways.
The poor will not get hired, and the ones who are "qualified" to do the work at that rate will now get less than what they could elsewhere.
It deprives the lower wage earner and higher at the same time.
Ahhh, Socialism. Ya gotta love it.
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