So now, instead of letting people work for $8.25 per hour with a chance to move up, you get nothing. Good job, DC.
Put them up in fly over country where the people will appreciate the jobs.
Well, if a baker can be sent to jail for not baking a cake for some lesbians, and an innkeeper can be fined for not letting lesbians fornicate at his inn, and a church can be made to fund abortions, what’s to stop Walmart from being FORCED to build and do business in an area that demands a certain minimum wage? I know, I know, completely different scenarios, but it seems to be the same kind of logic: don’t do what the PC/government/dictator wants, and you’ll be forced to.
The next step for the enemy is to use the force of law to compel businesses to open in hostile climates. You just know that they are thinking it.
Looks to me that D.C. has just helped Wal-Mart to avoid huge property loses from the pre-planned “Saint Trayvon” memorial riots.
If Gray does not veto, Wal-Mart should pour salt in the D.C. council’s wounds.
For example, open up stores in Maryland, just outside the D.C. city limits, hiring only Maryland residents to work there, and offer discounts to D.C. residents to shop in Maryland. Then periodically publish in D.C. advertisements that show how many jobs and how much tax revenue the city has lost “because of the greed of the city council.”
“You could have a good job with us right now, but your city council wants to keep you unemployed.”
the remaining store(s), will merely raise the prices, to compensate for the extra overhead.....everyone pays, and everyone loses....
with dc being the richest region in the country, I don’t have a problem with a local wage requirement. If there are ill effects, they will be measurably noticed.
Imposition of such a mandate nationally has caused our current imbalance. The market will prevail. For example, the ag business has created multiple mechanicals to address problem situations. ie remote controlled tractor pulling hopper wagons along side combines means one less worker.
Fewer people make more money each. Umm... how exactly does this mesh with their income redistribution beliefs? I’m confused.
I will be sure to visit my local Walmart again today.
I like a company that can tell the government - - any government and its scumbag politicians - - to go play in the street.
Good for WalMart.
Minimum wage laws accomplish 3 things -
decrease the number of entry level jobs,
Increase the number of people on the public dole,
Increase the incentive to hire illegals ‘under the table’.