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Meet the lawyer [SOROS STOOGE] pouring millions to get $15 minimum wage on Florida’s ballot
wnd ^ | SEP 15 2019 | Jacob Pramuk

Posted on 09/16/2019 6:47:25 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

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To: MarvinStinson

Well if you look at the employment rates for Washington state the rate is unchanged for the past year.


21 posted on 09/16/2019 7:46:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell; Buckeye McFrog

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They don’t realize they can vote for a raise but what will happen is they will be replaced with a machine or replaced with an illegal alien who will be paid under the table.
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Please, they believe themselves ‘too smart’ to have it effect THEM.

Unfort., we haven’t a SINGLE State that would tell ANYONE ‘The biz isn’t YOURS to dictate terms’, let alone govt itself acknowledging it’s exceeding their Constitutional constraints.


22 posted on 09/16/2019 7:49:19 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Instead of a sensible counter proposal of say $12.50/hr the GOP says no raise. This is why the GOP will always struggle.


23 posted on 09/16/2019 8:00:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MarvinStinson
Now, the Orlando-based personal injury attorney

AKA "Ambulance Chaser!" by the trade.

24 posted on 09/16/2019 8:02:01 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: central_va

That’s ‘looking’ very selectively.

How does this ‘look’?

Seattle-based restaurant chain declares bankruptcy, cites high minimum wage

Restaurants Unlimited says high wage expenses for workers could not be offset by profits.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/restaurant-chain-blames-high-minimum-wage-for-bankruptcy

Businesses fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. But when Restaurants Unlimited filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, people noticed. The company owns 35 upscale restaurants located primarily on the West Coast, including seven in Seattle.

In its filing, it declared, “Over the last three years, the company’s profitability has been significantly impacted by progressive wage laws along the Pacific coast…the result was to increase the company’s annual wage expenses by an aggregate of $10.6 million.”

It went on to cite three examples where minimum wages have risen dramatically over the last three years. Portland now requires $12.50 an hour, an increase of 35 percent. San Francisco’s minimum wage has climbed 41 percent to $15.59 per hour. And Seattle, the first city with a $15 minimum wage, now forces large employers to pay at least $16 an hour.

Restaurants Unlimited, which is based in Seattle, did raise menu prices and even added a living wage surcharge to bills. But it still lost money.

“I think what Restaurants Unlimited found out is that they can’t pass along the full impact of that labor cost increase to customers through their prices, said Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policies Institute. “People can stay home, people can eat out less often.”


25 posted on 09/16/2019 8:03:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Wilhelm Tell

They don’t realize they can vote for a raise but what will happen is they will be replaced with a machine or replaced with an illegal alien who will be paid under the table.


Yep. Within a decade a McDonald’s will be run by a staff of 2-3 people. Aldi and Dollar stores do it. No reason fast food can’t either.


26 posted on 09/16/2019 8:08:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This is strictly a Dem GOTV campaign. Morgan did it with Christmas for Criminals and dope, too. It’s pretty much pointless since I see fast food places in Florida already advertising $12 per hour starting pay. All this $15 minimum wage nonsense will to is fast track robotization of retail and fast food.


27 posted on 09/16/2019 8:09:53 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: mewzilla

Note to folks in FL who want to fight this: Come to Upstate NY with and drive through towns large and small.


Last year I drove through one town in Central PA. Main Street looked like nothing had changed since the 1970s. And not in a good way. Reminded me of my childhood.


28 posted on 09/16/2019 8:11:42 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: MarvinStinson
The unemployment rate for Washington St. has been around 4.6% since 2017.

Link here.

29 posted on 09/16/2019 8:12:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MarvinStinson

You believe “Restaurants Unlimited” and not the actual data.


30 posted on 09/16/2019 8:14:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

There is zero historical data backing up the assertions that increasing the minimum wage pushes up inflation and increases unemployment. None.


Would you prefer no wage? All these nonsense Dem GOTV campaigns will do is put robotization on the fast track. McDonald’s can easily get rid of 5 people per shift with automation. Soon you’ll have two people making $15 instead of 8 people making $10-$12 with an opportunity for advancement.


31 posted on 09/16/2019 8:15:57 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

The minimum wage is always zero.


32 posted on 09/16/2019 8:18:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lodi90

Robotics is not driven by the minimum wage. It’s happening now and the minimum wage is at a historic low.


33 posted on 09/16/2019 8:19:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: dfwgator
The minimum wage is always zero.

In some kind of academic text book fantasy world.

34 posted on 09/16/2019 8:22:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

If you don’t have a job, your wage is zero, that’s no fantasy.


35 posted on 09/16/2019 8:23:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: central_va
Instead of a sensible counter proposal of say $12.50/hr the GOP says no raise. This is why the GOP will always struggle.

Agreed. They always seem to let things ride until they appear unreasonable to a majority of people. Just like how they've never met an abusive banking practice they wouldn't defend (leading to the rise of Fauxahontas). In that sense taking a principled stand against ANY minimum would be preferable to supporting one that is laughably outdated.

That being said, this is all about goosing low-income turnout next November.


36 posted on 09/16/2019 8:25:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: dfwgator

It’s ok to be against the minimum wage but don’t use unemployment and inflation as reasons to be against the minimum wage. Those two reason are not valid and the looking at the raw data quickly dispels those reasons.


37 posted on 09/16/2019 8:27:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gibsonguy

In my opinion, you are correct. And you ain’t seen the half of it. Pray for a miracle.


38 posted on 09/16/2019 8:27:44 AM PDT by sport
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To: MarvinStinson

The drunken, foul mouthed sot!


39 posted on 09/16/2019 8:27:56 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: JBW1949

They do not think that far ahead.


40 posted on 09/16/2019 8:30:30 AM PDT by sport
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