“It was just implemented two weeks ago,” Guillen said. “In the long run it will benefit the entire community.”
Worker Danielle Schlamp has not received a check with her new raise on it, but is looking forward to more money in her pocket.
Voices of the clueless. Money in their minds truly grows on trees.
Hey, who cares about hundreds/thousands of workers losing their jobs? They got a pay increase, right...and that’s what’s most important. Who cares if they don’t have a job anymore thanks to the “increase”?(snicker)
That's OK. The idiotic socialist voters and their Dem reps meant well.
~snicker.
I live in the east bay. There are 100+ restaurants you can go to other than Oakland. That doesn’t include the joints in Berkeley that I’m boycotting.
Oakland is 27% Black and over 25% Hispanic. Throw in a bunch of left wing Whites and you can see how the vote went. In other words, Oakland is Toast. It has been for many years.
“The reason this isn’t working well is that they didn’t raise it enough.”
-Andy Sullivan
The same thing is happening in Seattle where their left wing city government is implementing a $15 minimum wage in stages. Several restaurants already are closing.
>”It was just implemented two weeks ago,” Guillen said. “In the long run it will benefit the entire community.”<
It will do even more for the surrounding Communities.
Oh well,
Quit voting for dems.
The stop work party
Live by Liberalism, Die by Liberalism.
Worker Danielle Schlamp has not received a check since the wage increase as her employer went out of business.
Oakland. A Marxist shithole that should be nuked from space. Only way to make sure none of them escape to poison another city.
What will Black people do when all the businesses close or move.
It's just not fair, government ought to do something about these businesses acting this way.
There was a Chinatown just south of Downtown Houston. The last vestiges of it died about 5 to 10 years ago and the state took down the highway sign. It had been Houston’s Chinatown, but it was driven out by the rampant Democrat-inspired crime that made Houston a very dangerous city. Things got better, of course, after Republicans started taking power, and putting felons in jail. Concealed Carry was approved about then too.
But the Chinatown never came back - instead it moved West, still mostly in the city, but far away from “the locals”, and now it is absolutely HUGE and unlike San Francisco and NY, you can actually park there. I suspect that pretty much everyone made out well in the end.
We’ll see what happens with this “living wage” crap. Oakland had a nice Chinatown, but I suspect its days are numbered. San Francisco will shrink, but still get the tourists. The REAL QUESTION is whether any city out there can figure out what a GOLD MINE awaits them if they DO NOT get into this living wage crap and otherwise harassing businesses. I am not optimistic though.
What they don’t tell the minimum wage employees, is this will, put them in a new tax bracket. They will now pay more withholding taxes, and now they won’t qualify for the supplemental support for Obamacare. Yes those minimum wage employees will now have to pay full price for their healthcare tax. So, who really benefits, it is the ones that tax these minimum wage employees. That sweet girl looking forward to seeing the increase in take home pay, may be up for a bit of a disappointment in the coming months. The design was never to help the workers, it is to generate more taxable income for government. Oh, and all you excellent table waitstaff, you can kiss tips goodbye. Remember to thank a Democrat, when your not making the take home pay you used to. You are now supporting all their Democrat take from the “rich” give to the poor programs. Don’t you feel a special warmth for that?
And, all you graduating high school seniors. Just think how much harder you will have to compete with older and more skilled people for the ever shrinking pool of remaining jobs, that used to be considered entry level, but now are too expensive to offer to you. Thank a Democrat for that too. Remember they had good intentions, but not a CLUE about what happens when they mess with simple economic standards.
Liberals love to sit in Starbucks and think of ways to kill businesses. Idiots.
$12.25 / hour * 0.00 hours = $0.00
The Tyranny of the Majority.
Minimum Wage Laws are Unconstitutional.