when did Seattle go to $15 an hour? wasn’t the plan just announced about a month ago? i had not realized it was already happening...
"“I lost my 401k, health insurance, paid holiday, and vacation,” she responded. “No more free food,” she added."
But of course these sort of problems are easily resolved. A stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool. Stay tuned
This is on the American Thinker, which is conservative. This will never be covered in the mainstream American media.
Who wouldn’t want a $4 cup of coffee with a $10 wage surcharge?
I’ll say it again, don’t dare think that they will admit to failure and repeal the law.
As people lose their jobs, they will file for unemployment, so unemployment taxes on businesses will go up, because how can we turn our backs on those victims of greedy businessmen?
As people who still have jobs gripe about “no more free food” and other benefits, food stamp eligibility will be relaxed and weekly benefits will go up. Which means more taxes, because how can we turn our backs on hungry people?
As people who still have jobs and all their benefits gripe with no self-awareness whatsoever that they are paying “living wage surcharges” at the same kinds of places they work at, “greedy businessmen” will again become Emmanuel Goldstein, and there will be talk of outlawing those surcharges.
And in general, there will simply be more calls for more taxes anyway.
Soon half of the minimum wage people will be seeking public assistance to cover things like healthcare, food etc. The other half will be collecting unemployment. Great strides liberals LOL
I'd like to see the minimum wage be raised, but not too quickly, so that people who have full time (or nearly so) jobs don't need government handouts.
The limousine liberals of Seattle are happy. The more working people they run out of Seattle, the less of those cars that get in the way of their limos.
AHHHA, so this is an argument for more employer mandates for those things? Every problem has a government fix.
Don't forget paid maternity leave. How could Obamacare miss that one?
The above will be the libs conclusions. Every problem they generate has a government solution.
But they can, and will continue to, ignore it.
“The McDonald’s outlet in downtown Berkeley frequently hosts “members of the homeless community” (I think that’s the preferred nomenclature these days, but I could be behind the times).”
Although he probably doesn’t know it, “hosts” is exactly the right word here. There’s very little commerce involved. The bums buy either nothing or one cup of coffee and linger for hours and hours. And of course they are agitating for the Banana Republic of Berkeley to make that the new legality, and to forbid McDonald’s from being able to force them out of the “public space”.
Surprise only to the liberal thinking never enters their mind only greed does.
'nuff said
Simple! Just mandate that it is illegal to go out of business!
Well, obviously the solution is to raise it up to $25/hr now to compensate for the reductions in benefits.
Something Liberals never understand. They think just because they say it, it will be so.
But it sounds and feeeeeeeeels so good! Isn’t that enough for you people????
“It turns out that leftists can’t repeal the law of supply and demand.”
Well, they could (sort of) if they went full-bore communism. OK, not exactly a repeal, but more like they could moot it since there would be zero supply but infinite demand.
Had a local McDs that was going to fall under the boom of the Obama 10.10 an hour wage increase for military contractors. It’s on military leased property but had civilian access. Was always busy but Mcds ran the numbers and closed it. They couldn’t afford it. Other area Mcds were at least able to find the displaced workers jobs. So now dependents who worked there and were able to walk or bike to work can’t.
They still have a bowling alley that came under the same contractor wage rules. Friends wanted to go in and get some food but not bowl. The place instituted an 8 dollar cover charge if you’re not bowling. They didn’t say it but the cover charge was to make up for the Obama wage rules.