Posted on 07/10/2013 2:33:59 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON - The D.C. Council has passed a bill that would require large retailers like Wal-Mart to pay workers at least $12.50.
The bill now goes to Mayor Vincent Gray for his consideration. The 8-5 vote was short of the votes needed to override a veto from the mayor
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Democrats in Action! Uh, I mean: Commies In Action!
Uh, ok, same difference, actually:
Potato, patato; Democrat, Commie.
“make minimum wage 100,000 per hour and then everyone could only work one hour a year at McDonalds and we would all be rich!”
Even better, have the government mint a bunch of trillion dollar coins and grant each citizen one coin. They everybody would be REALLY rich and no one would have to work at all.
“Equal protection under the law and all that. (Seems the bill only pertains to a certain size business “
Even worse, stores bigger than the target size but which are also unionized are exempted! Only large, non-unionized stores are impacted.
Still, I don’t blame Walmart for wasting their money on lawsuits. Probably cheaper and easier just to pull out.
I will celebrate the day that DC files for bankruptcy.
LLS
Until they went belly up.
LLS
Union trumping jobs.
I’m sure the voters who put these Leftists in charge travel to Va where there are Walmarts.
Why not $32.50/hr? Or $325.50/hr?
And some existing DC retailers may close and move to the burbs.
what a bunch of stupid crooks
Why should Wal-Mart have to pay their employees a living wage when the American taxpayers will do it for them?
I mean between food stamps, section 8 housing, etc. all Wal-Mart needs to do is to pay their employees enough so they can afford gas for the car, or bus fare, so they can show up to work. Taxpayers will do the rest.
One where they completely go overboard and show the DC councilmen some aluminum suitcase full of fake $.
Oh, here's what YOU'LL get if you let us build our stores.
Then when the "leak" breaks, and the councilman get caught, just laugh at them and give them the suitcase full of fake bills.
And in a few years, after more of dear leaders’ endless spending and printing of money, that won’t be enough to buy a month’s groceries and they’ll be demanding it be raised more.
What was it Einstein said about insanity?
Because the jig would be up.
Washington DC doesn't deserve Walmart. Better that they build in "flyover country" where they get a better class of job applicants with a better work ethic, and where people appreciate you.
I don’t like Walmart but I guess I’ll give them a little business.
“Why should Wal-Mart have to pay their employees a living wage when the American taxpayers will do it for them?”
You realize Wal mart is not alone in what they pay their people?
Why single Walmart out?
They pay as much or slightly more than any other similar operation and the opportunity to advance and make more is pretty easy.
Sears Target Penney’s Kmart all fast food chains etc etc etc etc
Wal-Mart is by far the biggest employer who regularly perpetuates the cycle of reliance on government hand-outs. The other companies are a drop in the bucket comparatively.
If Wal-Mart actually paid its share of corporate taxes, then you could argue that they pay for their employees to be on public assistance. But with corporate loopholes, offshore accounts, and other chicanery, these big companies are just leeches off of the American economy.
It’s time patriotism took a front seat and for companies to start making stuff in the USA and stop giving their employees 39 hours a week just so they don’t have to pay for any benefits, and let the social safety net take care of them (ie taxpayer funded food stamps and healthcare).
Sure, CEOs will only make maybe 1 million a year instead of 2, but isn’t it time to put America first? In WWII when people were growing Victory Gardens and skipped a meat meal one a week no one asked, ‘What’s in it for me?’
The USA is in a war for economic survival, and it’s time that big companies started pitching in.
Sorry
it is 2013
and we are and will forever be in a global economy
we can never go back nor would we want to go back to wages now paid to emerging countries.
We can either recognize this and look to ways to ensure our place
knowing it is not in mindless production
or we can continue to whine
which course do you choose to take
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