Posted on 03/14/2015 6:54:42 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Once those workers who happen to work in an establishment where tips are paid AREN’T getting tips anymore, they are in for a rude awakening with respect to their now-W2 income taxed and that which they ALWAYS underreported on TIPS.
They got what they wanted. Live with it.
Where is this communist edict written in any constitution that the government shall set prices for labor instead of having a free market?
Libs don't want to figure that out.
/johnny
See Venezuela. Collectivists don’t care about the consequences, and changing course is not an option.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Next up...”We have a RIGHT to dine out and pay less, now OPEN YOUR DOORS!!” Leftists are whacky.
Pass this on to your local skulls full of mush.
When these full service restaurants raise their menu prices to offset the additional costs of labor, I wonder if anyone has taken a poll amongst those who no longer frequent these establishments as to why they don’t go there any longer? IMO, libs have a high tolerance for spending other peoples money but when it comes to their own, they have deep pockets.
Maybe they should unionize. That’ll teach those pesky small businesses.
And for the waiters who manage to keep their jobs, the tips (which can be extraordinary!) will plummet. Jackasses.
I believe most waiters did not want this. Certainly NY waiters are dead set against it. Liberals they may be but suicidal they are not.
Margaret Thatcher: Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.
I remember once Nixon instituted a wage and price freeze. It was later determined to be unconstitutional and reversed.
It seems Democrats are perfectly willing to abridge your Constitutional rights when it involves people whose greatest aspiration is to someday hope to get a GED so they can go on Jerry or Maury and proudly proclaim that whilst telling the baby mama they found a new b!tch because you a “stank, broke-ass, controllin’, triflin’ ass b!tch”.
Indeed.
That $15.00 an hour will reduce the incentive to tip.
We always knew that waitresses in fast food joints made very little money, and a tip for good service was a way to help them along.
Higher wages will mean higher prices, and the incentive to tip will be gone. Also the incentive to provide good service will be gone.
With poor service, high prices, and bad attitudes, the pleasure of eating out will be gone.
If it’s no longer a pleasure to eat out, why bother?
Brown-Bagging becomes the norm, for those who can find jobs, anyway.
For the rest, there will always be soup kitchens.
Tips in Seattle would be poor before all this.Liberals are really tight when it comes to their own money.
Minimum wage dissent: San Jose's law resulted in lost jobs [many restaurants cut jobs and hours]
[Seattle's $15] Minimum wage limbo keeps [liberal] small business owners up at night
A Tale Of Two Cities: Oakland Workers Celebrate Minimum Wage Hike As Business Owners Worry
Oakland mayor urges support for small businesses struggling with new minimum wage
I would first ask those NY waiters for whom did they vote in 2008 and 2012. They don’t like it because they never reported a majority of the tips they received as income. Now they have to. They can thank Obama for that.
Good to see you’re still kicking.
I understand that many of them voted for Obama not realizing what he and his liberal cohorts were up to. They voted for him because he was so gay-friendly!
I hope it’s a lesson well learned.
IIRC, urban Amish are the worst nontippers of all.
There is now a smile on the face of Seattle’s Lenin statue.
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