Posted on 03/09/2015 4:25:54 PM PDT by Baynative
“We’re building a new way of governing the state. Olympia’s not doing anything, so the power is shifting from Olympia to people like me.” – Seattle billionaire, Democrat financier and far-left activist Nick Hanauer.
(Excerpt) Read more at shiftwa.org ...
Think of it this way. Legal majority voters ultimately decide minimum wage, if any, in a given state, but let employers decide when to reward loyal employees with higher wages.
Give ‘em as much rope as you can, FRiend.
why stop at $16 for 2016, Nick?
Let’s just make it $2016 and end all poverty. It’ll work. Trust me.
Does not the Contract Clause kick in as well (between employer and employee, some measure of ‘goods’ in exchange for ‘labor’)
IMHO, the State has no authority as well.
“What happened to $15/hr?”
There is no election this year.
“What happened to $15/hr?”
There is no election this year.
Why not use the year, just specify that in 2016 the minimum wage goes to $2016.00 an hour and moves up with the year thereafter. If people think that is too high they obviously don’t believe in the minimum waqe concept. If 2016 an hour is too high how do they know that 20.16 an hour is not too high? How do they know that 2.016 or even .2016 an hour is not too high? Maybe we should do something foolish and return to the free market concept? How about returning to real money? Now there is a really radical idea, back in the days of real money the old expression, “another day, another dollar” was based on reality.
I actually recall reading an article back in the sixties lamenting the fact that a young person who wanted to go into farming needed the huge sum of...$30,000. in capital to get started, this was considered nearly insurmountable for most. Fifty years later the dollar has been watered down to the point that some used cars sell at auction to dealers for more than $30,000. and they are being bought for resale. If we had real money and a free market we would not need to worry about silly ideas like the minimum wage.
Maybe a maximum wage law is needed like $2.00 an hour. Then everyone would have jobs and hamburgers would only be like 0.25 cents.
Why not $50/hr?
As if that matters.
I wonder if this billionaire is paying any of his employees less than 16 an hour right now.
Mr billionaire, dont dare tell me you need government to force you to do so.
$16 was obviously a misquote. He must have said $116. Anyone familiar with the magic of economics is aware that 1+1+6=8, and 8 is the digit imbued with power of increasing money and improved finance.
This wouldn’t be the same Nick Hanauer who pays his domestic staff $7.75/hr?
“As usual all the Leftist power and money in these cases seems to tend toward crushing the individual.”
Always.
I wondered about that, but couldn't find anything about it. I figured the question must have come up at some point and since nothing seems to be cached I assume the answer isn't good for him and his liberal friends.
So, will he pay the difference to all the business who will now have to pay more? Hoe you enjoy paying $5.99 for a gallon of milk and $7.99 for a head of lettuce.
You can take me off the ping list please. I live in Michigan now.
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