Posted on 03/09/2015 4:25:54 PM PDT by Baynative
“We’re building a new way of governing the state. Olympia’s not doing anything, so the power is shifting from Olympia to people like me.” – Seattle billionaire, Democrat financier and far-left activist Nick Hanauer.
(Excerpt) Read more at shiftwa.org ...
Is this $16 per hour for an American citizen or $16 per hour for an illegal invader? Which person would a Chamber of Amnesty member choose and why? How would the American citizen voter feel if the Chamber of Amnesty member chooses the illegal invader over them? Who then would the American citizen vote for?
It really sucks how these rich, 1 percenter, leftwing ‘RATs just love to spend other people’s money. Not their own. Somebody else’s.
Hanauer himself made the 16 statement.
He ia a venture capitalist and his gang is called Second Avenue Partners.
Maybe his plan includes destroying little businesses and driving residents out of the state to seek work elsewhere. Helping Mother Gaia get rid of evil human polluters in his neighborhood you .know.
Like Dennis Miller says, If we can just get everybody to drop out of the work force and sign up for welfare we’ll have zero percent unemployment and nobody looking for a job!
if he wants to pay $16 he is perfectly free to do so
what gives him the idea he has any right to try to force the rest of us to do it,
when... for many small businesses.... it is impossible...
that’s IT! The idea is to drive small business out ... as much as they can....
more dependency on big billionaires and the government (that big billionaires figure they can buy anyway)
or?
Obama, the Supremes and the worthless RINOs have rammed a lot of liberal nonsense down our throats over the last few years. What scares me is .. what’s next? They see they can just edict changes without congress and no one stops them. Socialists always have to “move forward” and push some new program or idea otherwise they have no purpose. The next six years will be an outright onslaught. It will be like Ken Kesey’s bus “Further”. There is no end but only “further” to go.
That could be. I don’t believe I have ever heard that issue discussed.
Illegals will make out like bandits in Sanctuary Seattle if “$16 in ‘16” passes, and white teens and Blacks are dumped by the thousands.
‘All the human employees are gone.’
I love this Brave New World! *SPIT*
Why only $16? why not $116 an hour? that would wipe out poverty much faster.
Two definitions exist for the term middle class. The first definition is of median-income households. The second one is of professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc, who make a living from their wits. Above them are the landed rich and below them are blue collar workers. In terms of income, however, they are anything but in the middle. A couple of engineers pulling in 75K apiece are in the top 10% of household incomes. And $200K households are in the top 5%. So when tax rates are hiked for $500K households, they are assuredly only hiking them for the top several % of high-income earners.
The issue isn't whose taxes get hiked - it's definitely not middle-income people - it's the effect of excessive taxation on capital formation, which affects growth rates and overall income levels. The higher the taxes, the lower the salaries. There is no free lunch.
I don’t differentiate the difference between a plumber making $125k a year and a Lawyer making $125k a year. The plumber’s probably ahead of the game because he didn’t spend 6 or 8 years for a post graduate doctorate. Just one has a higher potential than the other. Think buying $5 worth of powerball vs buying $90k worth of powerball lottery tickets. Mainly it’s because those professional fields have been diluted and devalued.
If you approximate an income pyramid, it’s obvious that the top 1% cannot sustain the bottom 20%., but the middle 50% can with +’s and -’s from the remaining 29%. So who does the burden fall the heaviest on? The 50% . That’s just off the cuff pie in the sky examples.
Someone making $125K is not part of the middle 50%, as my earlier link showed. The top 20% of households pays 94% of all federal income taxes.
However, it’s OP [middle class] money mostly that they use. If they used their own money nobody would care."
From Dr. Ben Carson's book "One Nation":
[Elites] -- "For the most part, they are incapable of seeing any hypocrisy in their own lives while examining with a microscope every facet of their perceived opponents' lives. They are happy to give away other people's money, but guard their own purse strings possessively. The sad thing is that they have become so wise in their own eyes that they have lost objectivity, thus frequently rendering themselves quite useless when it comes to truly improving the lot of the downtrodden in our society."
"People like you" are called billionaire socialist oligarchs, Nick.
I don’t believe any level of government has the right to set wages or prices.
Shouldn’t it be $20.16 in 2016?
Does the amount include the Payroll Taxes that the Employer is responsible for?
Although prices are often established by what consumers are willing to pay for an item, wages are ultimately determined by what a given state’s legal majority voters want.
China knows how to deal with his kind of meddling.
They should be determined by the employer paying them, and nuts to what voters think, it’s none of their business.
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