Posted on 09/30/2019 3:16:05 PM PDT by rktman
Ayn Rand couldn’t have said it better.
Directive 10-289
In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people’s security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufactured or sold after the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.
Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.
Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final.
The ONLY damn reason there was a push for this were higher payroll taxes this extra wage did NOT help the worker in any way the prices of EVERYTHING went way up along with the wage SO the workers are having to spend more than the increase on the daily items and groceries they purchase!!! HOWEVER employers who have to pay and match the payroll taxes REALLY get screwed!!!
The added cost of labor will ALWAYS get passed on to the consumer.
So you can make the minimum wage $100/hr but all that will do is make a hamburger cost $25. The people making minimum wage will STILL struggle!
The only solution is to leave the entry level jobs to the kids and the retirees and LEARN SOME SKILLS!
The wait staff, cooks, and bus boys are probably illegals. Guess they’ll have to go back to Mexico or Central America. I live in deep south Texas and all of the restaurants have mostly Hispanic staff (a large percentage don’t habla Inglis).
Oh no, what will AOC do when she loses her House seat?
It’s been a failure from all the previous leftist run cities as a lab experiment. The lunatic leftist elites don’t let facts and logic stop them from pushing their agenda and business/ jobs be damned.
I paid $8 and change for a quarter pounder and a small fry.... I won’t go very much. That is too expensive.
This is Econ 101 text book stuff I learned in the 60’s. Guess the new generation of political scientist thought Econ was not important enough to learn, or maybe they didn’t learn to read being brought up on Facebook and all that social media crap and all.
Sounds like the beginning of Atlasts shrugged... Spelled wrong I figure.
I believe the same thing happened in Seattle, where this $15/hour minimum wage insanity got started.
Besides just raising the minimum wage, the employer has to pay the tip employee $8 an hour and remains $3 less than whatever the minimum wage is. In the case of NY, the rate is $10 for tip employees. It simply doesn't make any sense to be open for a few early birds or night owls.
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