Posted on 08/18/2015 1:34:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Small businesses are already struggling to survive the spate of minimum wage increases to $15 per hour in parts of California.
Last month, the small Bay Area town of Emeryville, California, (population 10,000) decided to act as flag-bearer for raising the minimum wage in California, hiking its minimum wage to $14.44 per hour.
Even though businesses with less than 56 workers are exempt from the $14.44 rate and do not have to raise their wages to $15 until 2018, Vic Gumper, who owns Lanesplitter Pizza, with outlets in Berkeley, Oakland, Albany and Emeryville, decided not only to bite the bullet but swallow it, paying his workers $15 to $25 an hour while eschewing tips or raising prices.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The government does not have the right to set an hourly pay rate.
So do they get tax free $2600 a month unemployment benefits?
If someone wants to pay their employees $15, $25 or $200 per hour to make pizza, that’s their decision. Happy employees are part of any business’ success. They can succeed or fail by their own merits.
But for the State to force it on everyone is just fascism.
Liberals are able to create and live in their own fantasy land, where everything is perfect. Everyone else, including business owners and employees have to live in the real world. Fantasies don’t do very well in the real world.
When a master Progressive plan comes together it fairly lights up the area for miles around with a halo of social justice and equality for all ... it is downright inspiring and hopefully they will hoard it to themselves in their Progressive utopias!!!
“The government does not have the right to set an hourly pay rate.”
I’ve wondered how they’ve been getting away with it for as long as they have. Just hope Gumper goes out of business! It will serve him right.
The elites will stop buying these pizzas complaining about too high a price. Then they will see unemployed students milling about wondering why they can’t get jobs or afford to eat. So of course the solution is to raise the minimum wage.
Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits haven’t been non-taxable in many years. Also, with the exception of one state, EMPLOYERS pay the taxes that go into UI, not the employees.
/johnny
Gumper admitted, “The necessity of paying people a living wage in the Bay Area is clear, so it’s hard to argue against it, and it’s something I’m really proud to be able to try doing. At the same time, I’m terrified of going out of business after 18 years.”
Wow...you can't fix stupid...
Not in the US.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/05/04/the-average-us-welfare-payment-puts-you-in-the-top-20-of-all-income-earners/
The government has the right to do whatever we'll put up with.
Closing during lunch? I’m not sure wage and price are the issue.
Dang...Who eats Pizza at lunch???
Answer: Lots
You can’t legislate to create wealth, but you can to create poverty............
It is if they don’t have a job!
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