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To: conservative98
Great I will invest in robotics stock.
2 posted on
07/18/2019 11:49:21 AM PDT by
IC Ken
(Stop making stupid people famous)
To: conservative98
If this passes the president’s desk, expect huge price inflation to follow. This raises the COL floor.
To: conservative98
Cheap bastards. Raise it to $115 per hour.
4 posted on
07/18/2019 11:50:35 AM PDT by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: conservative98
More interested in a House bill to lower Congressional pay to $15/hour.
5 posted on
07/18/2019 11:50:36 AM PDT by
C210N
(You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
To: conservative98
I doubt this will make it through the Senate...
6 posted on
07/18/2019 11:51:11 AM PDT by
JBW1949
To: conservative98
Great. No more tipping servers if they are getting paid that much and cost of the menu will soar.
8 posted on
07/18/2019 11:51:23 AM PDT by
david1292
To: conservative98
House passes bill to turn lead into gold.
10 posted on
07/18/2019 11:52:44 AM PDT by
Skywise
To: conservative98
Moat Americans don’t employ min wage workers or low skilled workers and don’t care. Pass it and take the issue off the table. If this takes a few million off of welfare even better.
11 posted on
07/18/2019 11:53:22 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: conservative98
Wouldn’t $515 an hour be even better?
12 posted on
07/18/2019 11:53:45 AM PDT by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: conservative98
I heard many restaurants in Seattle, New York and San Francisco closed because of this in their state....
13 posted on
07/18/2019 11:53:50 AM PDT by
JBW1949
To: conservative98
NYS raising it’s minimum wage is a large part of the reason Upstate is a retail and service sector waste land.
Feel free to use pics of our moribund malls, dead downtowns, extinct eateries to make that point.
14 posted on
07/18/2019 11:54:16 AM PDT by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds)
To: conservative98
To: conservative98
if this passes trumps desk the socialisg have a chance to win the presidency. just promise to raise the minimum to $20 and hour.
17 posted on
07/18/2019 11:55:21 AM PDT by
Ikeon
(My white privilege was my momma wasnt a ho and my daddy lived with us and kicked my ass as needed.)
To: conservative98
Bad idea. This prospective expense has already caused many small businesses to close.
Hopefully, enough GOP will support a veto by Trump.
To: conservative98
This is ridiculous, they’re playing to the leftists as usual.
I doubt it’ll get through the senate and am sure President Trump would not sigh it if it does.
22 posted on
07/18/2019 11:57:31 AM PDT by
jazusamo
(Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
To: conservative98
Minimum-wage increase proposals are NOT about minimum wages.
It's about UNION wages (read government employees mostly) and UNION DUES.
Like
"Artie" on another thread wrote.
"but my theory is thatthis is one of the foundations of single payer.
Down the road, as single payer replaces ObamaCare,all healthcare workers will become in essence government employees.Think about how many thousands of new, dues paying union members will magically become part of the SEIU.
Barry had sealed this deal with Andy Stern years ago.
Barry promised Andy and the SEIU thousands of new members,Andy saysgreat,
this is the wage structure we needso we can pay the slush fund.
Gotta pay a living wage to all of the new union membersso dues can be extracted
and kickbacks to the dems can be made.
Its convolutedbut what dem scheme isnt,especially when large sums of cash are involved?"
So read the following:
Union Support Of Minimum Wage Hike Is Self-Interested by RICHARD BERMAN on Aug 26, 2013
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, ... was quick to emphasize that her organization's support of a more-than-twofold increase in the minimum wage was "not about growing unions."
This may be true but it's also undeniable that such a move would have a profound impact on growing union paychecks, even if those unions don't count a single minimum-wage employee in their ranks.
The fine print can be found in union contracts. Each year, the Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) releases a number of union collective bargaining agreements (CBAs).
Unsurprisingly, many CBAs available in the OLMS database LINK union salaries and wage rates to the federal minimum wage. There are a number of methods that unions use to accomplish this end. The two most popular appear to be setting baseline union wages as a percentage above the minimum wage, and mandating a flat wage at a set level above the minimum wage.
One example is a series of CBAs signed with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). Their contracts mandated that"(w)henever the federal legal minimum wage is increased, minimum wage (in the agreement) shall be increased so that each will be at least fifteen (15%) percent higher than such legal minimum wage."
There's also an SEIU local's contract, which ordered that"(t)he minimum hourly wage rates shall exceed any statutory applicable minimum wage rate by 50 cents."
Some unions have also arranged contracts where the employer MUST renegotiate their contracts in case of a minimum-wage hike, NO MATTER HOW LONG is left on the pact's life span.
The possibility for abuse here is staggering:Unions with average wages WELL ABOVE the minimum wage CAN INSERT such clauses into their contracts, FORCING negotiations in industries not otherwise affected by a wage hike.
Given the limited number of CBAs available in the OLMS database, it's impossible to determine just how widespread this practice is.
But at least one union has trumpeted this arrangement as "one of the many advantages of being a union member."
Earlier this year on its blog, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union proudly boasted that "oftentimes, union contracts ARE TRIGGERED TO IMPLEMENT WAGE HIKES IN CASE OF MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES."
This is a stunning admission of SELF-INTERESTt for an organization that's actively PUSHING minimum-wage hikes at both the state and federal levels of government.
It also raises questions about unions' growing use of nonunion "worker centers" like the Restaurant Opportunities Center, OUR Walmart, Fast Food Forward and other organizations that have made headlines in recent months.
These groups advocate many policies that would affect those businesses that pay a minimum wage restaurants, retailers, etc. and a minimum-wage hike is often the FIRST demand that these union front groups make. This only casts further suspicion on the motives of the labor unions funding these groups.
No matter how you look at it, the benefits that these unions stand to reap from a minimum-wage hike should raise questions about their real motives and whether they're only manipulating the debate over fast-food wages for their own benefit.
Berman is the executive director at the Center for Union Facts.
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Young Student Gets Limbaugh Lesson on the Minimum Wage
Oct 27, 2017
RUSH: This is Caden in Reno.
Great to have you.
CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: This is just an honor.
I just want to say how much of an honor this is to be speaking with you on your show.
I am just
Im doing a speech on Monday in my speech and debate class on why the minimum wage should NOT be increased.
RUSH: Mmm-hmm.
CALLER: And I would like to
I was wondering if you could give me a couple of talking points on whyraising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would affect the economy
or just business in general.
RUSH: Okay.
Caden, but first, before I answer this,do you have a computer ?
Are you able Google things and search them ?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Okay.
Because youre gonna need to do this because youre gonna find the evidence Im gonna give you.
CALLER: Okay. RUSH: Seattle.
You need to search Seattle and restaurants and find out what happened to them after the minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour.
A bunch of restaurants closed, Caden.
Raising the minimum wage choosing an arbitrary number that has nothing to do with the market and demanding that the least qualified earn that money
means that people get fired.
Businesses do not have a pile of money theyre not usingthat they can go raise wages from.
They have to earn it via sales or whatever.
So what happens when the minimum wage is raised arbitrarily on the command of governmentis that people lose their jobs.
More people end up out of work,
and the resulting increase in the minimum wage is not enough to counterbalance that at all.
But you Google Seattle and restaurants, and youll find outthe number of restaurants that have had to close since they raised the minimum wage to $15.
It will be your argument right there.
You can do your entire report on that story.
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23 posted on
07/18/2019 11:57:55 AM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: conservative98
Senate won’t buy in.
If by some chance it does, Trump won’t.
They think this will buy them votes.
24 posted on
07/18/2019 11:57:59 AM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(This space for rent...)
To: conservative98
Currently tipped employees will not appreciate this...at least not the competent and hard working ones who EARN their higher tips. The lazy tipped employees will love it as theyll get a substantial raise with no need to improve their performance.
The end result will be that the quality of service will DECLINE.
27 posted on
07/18/2019 11:58:08 AM PDT by
House Atreides
(Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
To: conservative98
The donkey wage for those newly unemployed is ZERO
28 posted on
07/18/2019 11:58:10 AM PDT by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: conservative98
In an even more drastic increase, the bill calls for having the same minimum wage for tipped workers, raising it from $2.13 an hour.In states where $15.00 an hour for waitstaff is mandatory; restaurants have closed and gone out of business. A major chain in California just announced bankruptcy.
Are House Democrats really that mean and stupid? Are they really trying to force the restaurant industry into a financial crisis?
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