Posted on 11/16/2006 11:10:42 AM PST by Quilla
This will be disastrous to many small businesses.
The city of Los Angeles just voted last night to force all companies in the city to pay $10.64/hour living wage. All companies, not just those doing business with the city like they did before.
But the Republican's tried to pass one and the demonrats defeated it...or did I read that wrong at the time???
I hope Bush is warming up his VETO stamp.... but I doubt it.
Disasterous for small business. Does this mean the Dems are going to raise their own salary also?
Bush has a veto stamp. Have you told him about it.
I doubt there are millions of people making the minimum wage.
And the republicans voted twice to increase the minimum wage this much, each time along with other things THEY wanted to pass, so it's hard for them to argue now that it's bad to do so.
Just be glad they aren't trying for ten bucks an hour now that they have the majority.
What will this do to McDonald's $1 menu?
He worked hard, got a raise to $5.50.
He worked well, got a raise to $6.00.
He worked very well, got a raise to $6.50.
Now he's gotta watch as the new kid (if they hire one) gets the same thing he gets.
A lot of small businesses are going to go bust, and a lot of low wage workers are going to be unemployed. I hope that the GOP legislators understand that before they decide how to vote.
I'd be shocked if introducing a raise wasn't their first piece of business.
This is all about the unions. Min wage goes up- union wages must rise.
Free money!
I'm pretty sure the pilot light went out.
"This will be disastrous to many small businesses".
...raising the minimum wage to $7.25 will not be disastrous. At present, very few companies, fast food etc pay less than $7.00. This whole minimum wage fiasco is the "FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IN OUR 1st HUNDRED HOURS" (said in deeply toned echo) because it's popular. People are truly too stupid to realize how worthless it is. Dems get a quick thumbs up. THEN they can really sock it to us. Any minimum wage is wrong. It's wrong for government to tell a private business owner how to operate, but we have so many under-acheivers/losers it's a feather in the dem hat.
I believe that only applied to the hotels around LAX but it's still outrageous.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739416/posts
anyone here ever gotten a 40% raise?
I don't think his office came with one.
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