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Posted on 07/11/2009 3:50:12 PM PDT by conservativeinferno
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Higher wages are on the way for those making the minimum. On July 24, minimum wage is going up by seventy cents to $7.25 an hour.
Even though it's not even a buck, in a 40-hour week that adds up to 28 more dollars.
An almost $30 raise for all employees is giving some businesses a headache.
Waiting for ice cream on a hot summer day. Customers come to Rosewood Dairy Bar for a number of reasons. The workers like to think it's because of the low prices, and that's something they don't want to change, even if they have to pay their employees more.
Instead of taking from the customer, when minimum wage increases they say they will be forced to take from the employee.
"The only thing we can control is labor, so we're going to have to cut the labor costs down, decrease the number of hours each employee works," says manager Pete Wysocki.
(Excerpt) Read more at wistv.com ...
7.25 X 40 = 290
Thus, someone will now be able to earn 1160 - taxes, SS, etc./month. That’ll beat other employment all to pieces. /ridicule
The small businessman will have to sleep on a cot in back though.
All the liberals can see is VOTES — they do not care about lost jobs, small business closings, jobs and business moving offshore or to business-friendly states. No, without any concern for consequences of their actions (typical libs) they again blunder and cause more destruction of our economy.
One can only think all of this Obama crap is intentional. How could anyone do so much damage in such a short period of time — a precedent in American history.
Rather than going to a fast food place for lunch, I find it more cost-effective (and healthier) to bring leftovers to work and nuke them in the lunch room microwave.
The only people who benefit from minimum wage increases are the Union. Tied to all of their contracts is the fact that union wages are X times minimum wage.
Having audited many small businesses, what people don’t understand is that increases in minimum wage affect all of their workers. Minimum wage is the starting point - entry level unskilled workers who need training. As they train they are given raises. When an increase in minimum wage comes about all of the workers who have trained for the last year and given little raises along the way are suddenly back at entry level. So the employer has to give the same percentage increase to them which means they now make the same as the next level.
On it goes so 1.00 per hr for a new hire costs the employer roughly 2.00 per hr for each worker not just the new hires.
At that point most employers choose not to hire anyone, and many times go at least a year before replacing those who leave. Suddenly you have higher unemployment.
All to benefit the Unions.
Don’t claim vindication until Obama calls for a cut in the minimum wage.
South Carolina Please welcome our newest South Carolina ping list member, sodpoodle.
“$10 dollar footlongs!”
Worth repeating.
***One can only think all of this Obama crap is intentional. How could anyone do so much damage in such a short period of time — a precedent in American history.***
He didnt do it all alone.We have the Democrat majority to thank , as well as Obama.
I dont know what the hell they are thinking about. have they all gone crazy on The Hill?
“Every increase in minimum wage makes it more cost effective to replace a worker with labor-saving machinery.”
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Our local supermarket had 14 checkout lanes. Now about half of those are self-serve.
As goverment fiddles with commerce, the prices go up, wages and benefits go down, and people are forced out of work. This is what will always happen.
It will 3 varieties at $10 and the rest at $16 and if you are stupid you order two 6” ones for $10 each.
No, they're not crazy. They've been waiting all their lives for an Obama. They're in hog heaven, their ultimate goal is within sight.
Everyone who makes higher than the minimum wage gets a virtual pay cut whenever the minimum wage is raised.
Local businesses have already started edging their prices upward to reflect the increased labor cost.
If you’re not making minimum wage your buying power will be decreased, thus the virtual pay cut.
Minimum wage increases are just a liberal feel-good-vote- buying ploy. Like most of these type ploys, it actually hurts those it claims to help and makes life tougher on everyone else.
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So the workers are paying the employees?
I pity the fool who wrote this, if only for his ignorance.
The fact that minimum wage increases do more harm than good is no longer even a debatable subject. One of the first articles, or books, I ever read by William F Buckley pointed out this same fact and that was over 45 years ago. To paraphrase a famous quote, it would seem the Democrats have forgotten everything and learned nothing in 50 years.
The only thing raising the minimum wage does is hurt people who don’t earn minimum wage, the rest of the middle class. No raise here. I have this annoying habit of being really cheap and I pretty much know the price of everything I buy from every store in a 5mi radius and since I do know this I can tell you that every item in the past 2 weeks has went up anywhere from .05¢-.75¢. That makes quite a difference in the total. I’ve went from spending $63 to over $75. Over a year that comes to $624 more and we didn’t get a raise. For people who make minimum wage that increase wipes out their .70¢ raise and actually costs them more than it did before.
YES!
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