Posted on 07/18/2006 4:26:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58
The French-like legillators want to be in charge in Chicago and Connecticut.
The taxes and fees are so exhorbitant in Chicago and surrounding areas I can't imagine big businesses would want to go there to begin with.
DU is saying F'Em,let them Close..........
This action could cause a tidal wave of employers leaving a city that is clearly unfriendly to retailers.
Slightly off-topic but cigarettes cost $8.00/pack in most bars in CHicago. $8.00!!!!
Well, I remember 0.79 a pack in '81.
Competition's great, - except in the labor market.
The same liberals who complain about Microsoft's "monopoly" want competition in all other areas -- but not in the labor sector.
Prices - and wages - reflect demand, skills, and ability.
Get over it!
If you want a higher wage, invest in more skills.
Oh you kids. I remember $.25 per pack about 1958 and that's out of a machine, cheaper if you bought them in a store.
Hey, somebody is sure to come along and call me a whippersnapper!
How 'bout $.90 aboard ship and $1.00 per Carton in the PX back in the 60's?
I remember that too.
Back in May - of this year I paid $10 per carton of Winstons in St. Maarten.
I say the same thing. It's a free market. If Wal Mart and Target decide not to go there, and close existing stores, then that's fine.
$13.00 a pack in NYC bars.
Well, since I came to the United States in '81, claiming earlier memories in the US would be clintorrhoidal or kerryesque on my part.
Can you even smoke them in the bar?
"The taxes and fees are so exhorbitant in Chicago and surrounding areas I can't imagine big businesses would want to go there to begin with."
Chicago? Yes. Surrounding areas? Hell no.
Where do you live? Wyoming? Cause you don't know the Chicagoland area.
You're wasting your time trying to explain capitalism, economics and a free market enterprise here.
Aside from the obvious Socialist implications, the whole idea of a "living wage" is stupid anyway. What is a living wage for one person may not be for another. Which means that it's still "not enough" and they raise it again...and again...and again...and pretty soon, unemployment is 22% and a gallon of milk costs $21.75.
Tens of thousands of jobs gone because of stupid labor laws "requiring" a certain wage level. The law itself insures that rate is now zero when those jobs go away.
Didn't Chicago stop Wal-Mart a few years ago from building in a certain area so they built just outside the city in some neighboorhood? As I recall, they had about 300-350 job openings at the store over 3,000 showed up to apply even at those "low wages".
Liberals are so stupid they are lucky breathing is involuntary.
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