Posted on 04/04/2015 11:20:16 AM PDT by lowbridge
Edited on 04/04/2015 11:28:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Eating meals out in Seattle just got more expensive as tens of thousands of low wage workers got a raise this week to $11 an hour. It was the first scheduled pay increase on the way to $15 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the country.
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The question that I haven’t seen asked, yet, is how will this raise affect other sectors?
I know that many UNION jobs are tied to the minimum wage. As it goes up their salary automatically goes up.
All future labor bargaining will be based on the $ 15.00 minimum wage so the asking salary will also go up.
What about various pension plans? The minimum wage increase will make them less “livable”. Also, how will this jump affect the cost of living adjustments?
Bottom line it just got much more expensive to live in Seattle.
As for the college student saying he would travel a few blocks for a $ 15.00 an hour job what makes him think that others will not travel a few blocks to save $ 5.00 - $ 15.00 for a meal or any other purchase?
There’s no shortage of places giving out GOOD MEALS for the homeless. That’s NOT the problem for them, I’ll guarantee you!
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Fortunately, I-5 goes through Seattle, with no particular need for stopping.
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The HOMELESS already get GOOD MEALS as it is right now, at many places that serve them every day, for no cost at all. You don’t starve or even go hungry in the least, if you are homeless!
So now, those tips the waiters were getting will be a matter of record for the IRS.
Hahahahahahahaha!
Oh, wait until they do their taxes next year.
“Where’s my big refund? I’m in a higher tax bracket? So, the government is the real winner?”
Welcome to socialism, boys and girls.
Let's see, burning hydrocarbons-contributing to global warming, not hiring an illegal to cook for you, eating red meat. You must be a right wing radical.
Advocates win: City Council votes to allow camps on publicly and privately owned land
The Seattle City Council has approved legislation that will allow the creation of three additional tent encampments for homeless people and, for the first time, allow the encampments to legally operate on privately owned property and city-owned property as easily as tent cities operate on religious property today.
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved the legislation March 30 to cheers from a large crowd of homeless people and advocates at city hall.
The city council also narrowly passed an amendment to the encampment ordinance by Councilmember Kshama Sawant that directs city staff to conduct an environmental review to determine what impacts tent encampments would have on residential property. The study would allow the city council to expand its encampment ordinance to include residential property later if councilmembers choose to.
Yep, it did get more expensive to live in Seattle, which means the poorer people will move out, and the richer ones will move in!
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>> “I wonder if the libs ever considered how much harder it will be for the homeless folks to scrape together the scratch for a Big Mac.” <<
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By my observation, the homeless don’t go to fast food joints for anything but napkins to use for TP.
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It never occurred to them that people might not see a need to tip waiters who make $15 per hour.
Kshama Sawant, the $15 wage ordinance architect who is a Seattle City Councilwoman and a Socialist, said the University of Washington, in particular, has other ways of affording the raises.
“It is disingenuous for them to say they don’t have enough to pay $15 an hour,” said Sawant, “Why don’t they cut the salaries of the top executives and try to pay $15 and try to increase the wages for the lowest paid workers?”
Good point, Kshama! Don’t you love it when the left eats its own?
I won’t. Let them into the system they begged for.
Since they have destroyed millions of jobs, this is the Rats plan to raise the standard of living. If you can get a job.
apparently!
The homeless, like illegals will just move to where they get more for less and there will certainly be less establishment of all types in Seattle.
“I love it. Watch the employees bitch and moan about not being able to be tipped because they get paid $15 an hour now. I bet they end up making less per hour than if they just kept their mouths shut. They will learn a lesson about capitalism the hard way...”
The real beauty is that most of their tips were under the radar, but now the government sees all of that income and will gladly take half of it.
“Fish ‘n Chips will run you $20.60 and the Wild Alaska Halibut is now $43.50”.
I would never be able to eat out if I lived there-at the only 2 candlelit, romantic restaurants out here the most expensive entrée on the menu isn’t much higher than $20.00-the best from their very nice wine list is not much more than the cost of that Alkaskan Halibut-but the wait staff doesn’t make $15 before tips, either...
Of course, they would rather die than admit the truth.
I have developed a new saying. It’s mostly just an addition to the old, “Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot!” Saying. The Liberals in Seattle made me think of it. Here it is.
Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot Especially When You’re Sitting In A Rowboat In The Middle Of Puget Sound!
Now, the socialist idiot would just shoot more holes in the rowboat to let the water out. We would then hope that she would have some real purpose in life as a snack for an Orca.
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