Seattle's statue of Lenin is looking a little shabby. Perhaps the capitalist pig who is closing her pizza shop should be forced to spiff it up.
And many to follow.
Obama’s fault.
You know, there’s another unintended consequence that most people probably don’t know about...
In a divorce (ahem...), when one ex isn’t working, a minimum-wage income is “imputed” to the unemployed ex, and then it’s deducted from the alimony the other ex pays.
IOW, when the minimum wage is raised, the amount someone pays in alimony will drop.
I’m sure that would make many people here who are paying alimony very happy (although it’s going to put me in a tough spot). :-(
Pretty soon they will pass another law forbidding businesses from closing due to wage increases. I’m only half joking.
we told ya so...
And all of this wonderful goodness will be paid by increased tax revenue, or at least that is the fantasy, because with our 'progressive' tax system (IE: soak the rich), it makes OH so much good sense to take those nasty HIGH TAX BRACKET PROFITS and redistribute them to low income earners who will pay little to no tax on that additional income.
What? Make more money, get a higher tax bracket! And that's true, they would enter into a higher tax bracket, and maybe pay a collective 5% of the tax bill vs the 0% they presently are paying. But really, the cities are counting on increased sales tax income as people spend those higher salaries.
But what's going to happen? The same thing that happens every time that there's a minimum wage increase: Rents increase in direct proportion to the amount of extra income. That means $800 a month apartments will go to $1200 a month. It means that cable and cell phone bills will increase, as they aim for a certain percentage of the rate payer's income.
So no fat sales tax bonanza for any of these cities - just more public employee wages, higher health costs for current and retired employees, and of course, higher costs for already retired as they'll get a piece of the pie as well.
Betcha the shorter hours start expanding beyond minimum wage jobs and into the public sector.
Why you smug, callous little SOB...
$15 an hour, figure a pizza slice costs $2 bucks so you would have to sell 7 slices an hour or one every 8 minutes just to pay the help, and on top of that you would have to make money to pay the store rent, then insurance then money for yourself to pay your rent and support a family. Oh yes, I can definitely see how $15 an hour would work. And don’t tell me: Millionaire liberals push this crap. Millionaires who really never worked real jobs or ran a real business in their lives.
This is all part of the plan of the statists to get the citizen more subservient and dependent on the government. Get as many illegals as possible into the country while raising minimum wage of the citizen all but guaranteeing the small business person will hire illegals leaving more and more of the citizenry on welfare and food stamps, then simply threaten them every election cycle “If you don’t vote Democrap you’ll lose your welfare and food stamps” which will all but guarantee Democraps win every election. And Repubs sit back and allow this to happen because they all have the balls of Kansas city faggots. Face it - When it comes to playing hardball Republicans make Richard Simmons look like Chuck Norris. They are the biggest effin wuss bags going today.
That’s unexpected. Who would have guessed that making labor more expensive would reduce the demand for labor?
The government requires inflation to handle the debt it has to pay off. The reason government debt is allowed, is that its paying future dollars for today’s debt. But when there is no inflation, future dollars can’t keep up with the growing debt.
This of course will always be a problem. There are only a few times when the tax revenue grows faster than the debt growth. But between 1983 and 2007 we had this situation most of the time. And its starting to occur now. But it won’t last long. Inflation often causes increased government expenses and a higher cost of government debt. Then ad a recession and its all over.
I mean...it's not like people's lives are being ruined. (sarcasm)
Seattle's statue of Lenin is looking a little shabby. Perhaps the capitalist pig who is closing her pizza shop should be forced to spiff it up.
and to think! all these illegal aliens thought they were going to be delivering pizza to hungry citizens of the USA
In a way it’s good the doors of this shop are closed the owner will move on & establish something else but it still s*cks doesn’t it?
It's interesting that the name of the Director is not given in this article.
Granted, this employer may not be a liberal.
But for all the liberals that will close their businesses, how can they do that to their low wage working people? Don’t they care about them? Don’t they know they should be forced to stay open to support these people? Just like they vote for stuff that forces other people to pay more bennies for people?
When liberals are going to lose their precious money, then they close up shop. When they are the ones that are on the hook, if it isn’t other peoples’ money but their own, they’re going to run away and preserve what they have, and make excuses - excuses they never listen to when others make the exact same arguments.
The Now Seattle Director’s comments show they absolutely give zero sh1ts about working people. This director a$$hole is still pulling in a large Soros-funded type paycheck from liberal donors. They don’t even care if their own actions cause more people to lose their jobs.
The goal was to get a $15 minimum wage. Not keep all of them working. If the working folks inferred they would all be working too, well, that’s not the Director a$$hole’s fault they made that assumption.
I hereby proclaim and legislate that henceforth every family shall have a golden unicorn in their backyard that gives them free and ever flowing milk
I just posted on a different article what a disaster i expect from this. Many smaller businesses will close and will have a cumulative effect on taxes. Even worse however will be the areas that depend on medium sized businesses which might compose 10 or 20% of a workforce in a small city. Those closings have rippling effects. Big cities with diverse industries will take longer to feel the effect. As this movement spreads the smaller cities will be the real casualties.
I find the above comment by the 'director' of Seattle Now, a female, can make such a mean-spirited snark statement about the closing of a WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS directly affected by political legislation her association worked to enact! HA, you hypocritical political turdbags, I hope you roll in it, because you OWN this one!