Posted on 02/05/2015 11:08:39 AM PST by absentee
News broke this week about a popular independent bookstore in San Francisco that is going out of business thanks to a citywide minimum wage hike that priced the owner out of business. Effectively, the minimum wage for this store's employees was "raised" to zero, as they are losing their jobs.
On Thursday morning, the store's owner Alan Beatts appeared on Morning Joe on MSNBC to discuss his decision to close and how the wage hike negatively impacted his business. The panel was, to say the least, skeptical.
The interview began with a hostile inquiry from Mika Brzezinski and only got worse from there, as Harold Ford and Mike Barnicle piled on, grilling the business owner with obvious disdain. It was abundantly clear throughout that only Joe Scarborough had even the slightest inclination to believe Beatts' understanding of, and honesty about, his own business. It was especially apparent when Mika simply flat-out said that the guy was not being straight.
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What does an employer end up paying for an employee to get the $15/hr min wage? Gotta be around $19 an hour, with their “contributions” to payroll taxes.
Leftie plageristic dirtbag, where else would he be?
” It was especially apparent when Mika simply flat-out said that the guy was not being straight.”
Mika may have been correct in her assumption. It is San Francisco after all..
The funny part about this is that they were trying to “shame” a businessman for going out of business. So despite what they were *trying* to do, what message does this send to other area businesses?
Go out of business, but don’t say why?
Continue to pay what you cannot afford until you are bankrupt?
I note that the Californians are up to their eyebrows with spin over why what is happening in California isn’t actually happening. Denialism only works until the money runs out.
Which probably explains all the non-book items at the front of most stores, the "educational" toys and puzzes, the calendars, journals, candy, tea and other items used to pad their profits. Not saying I disagree with what they're trying to do, but it explains a lot...
Things are not going well when there are more people on the panel than are watching the show.
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