Simone....
Why should I give a damn? You are a fool to live in Seattle.
You should move to America
This is just one of the top ten things making Seattle into a marginalized city, and chasing the population beyond the city limits.
Post signs. “NO TIPS PLEASE. Waiter salaries now cover tips”
Then raise your rates accordingly. Fire anyone who accepts tips.
Ever try to tip someone in Costco? They won’t take it. It will cost them their jobs.
Paging Pennsylvania.
You lot can’t say you weren’t warned.
Holy crap-that’s insanity.
You got what you voted for.
Silly boy, don’t you know you’re only supposed to get food from the state?
Leftist DemRats ruin everything—-EVERYTHING Including themselves. They never learn and facts be damned.
Seattle will become a restaurant desert.
“I’m proudly progressive in my politics...minimum-wage laws...hurt the very workers they’re trying to protect.
“Ms. Barron is a restaurant worker and co-founder of the Full Service Workers Alliance.”
Last paragraph from article.
She’s also head of a restaurant workers union.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-barron-76b0a9168
Simone Barron
Server at Tanakasan
Greater Seattle Area 74 connections
I’m a 33 year veteran of the service industry. Director of the Full Service Workers Alliance Seattle. Founder and Director of Restaurant Workers of America. Industry Advocate. Industry Consultant with a Workers POV.
This, during one of the biggest booming economies in History.
The government does not have the right to mandate a minimum or maximum hourly pay rate. Nothing else matters.
Tom Douglas was a neighbor and he or his sisters used to baby sit for us back in Delaware. Every visit to Seattle we’ve made over the years we visit one of his restaurants and see him if we can. Used to love both things; visiting Seattle and dining at his or any of the other good eateries out there. The leftward lurch has made us avoid going anymore.
It is wrong to blame a poor waitress for the politics of the people in power. They are do-gooders don’t you know. They spend other peoples money and promise to protect the Simone’s of the world who end up getting hurt instead. Blame the Tom Steyer’s and Bezos instead. They should know better.
But you’ll still march right out and pull the lever for any Dem with promises of free stuff. Embrace the suck. Oh, yeah, and learn to code.
Sort of what FDR did when he instituted Social Security; businesses folded because of the increase tax and workers fired and those that were able to work had less income. This was in 1936 when the country was slowly coming out of the Depression. That Act put it back in even deeper and didn’t come out of it until we entered WW2.
Gee. This is unexpected.
I just got into an argument with a leftist from Seattle who claimed the stories of businesses closing due to the high minimum wage is a lie promoted by the Right wing Trumpers. This Lunatic Liberal kept arguing that Seattle will grow because of the wages. I told him - see you in 4 years and you can tell me the real story.
There wasn’t one economist who is honest who isn’t saying “I told you do”. Still, if you think this is bad, wait until Warrens tax on wealth hits the street.
Complete economic idiots pandering to voters who are (and will continue to) lose their jobs.
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