Posted by Tina
The emotion driven people of Seattle got a chance to vote and decided $15.00 and hour was a good deal for workers that have no experience. None of the experts that predict fewer hours for workers, higher prices for food, or job losses were heeded. These businesses already face much higher prices for meat and cheese and rising fuel and healthcare costs.
A Seattle city council member just admitted on TV that $15.00 is “not a living wage” and that they will have to see whether it works. How in the hell does she propose she will be able to reverse it if it doesn’t. OMG
How did Americans get to be so stupid? (I know, our lousy education system)
Will young brainless Californians and Oregonians looking for work migrate to grab a chance for that “not a living wage” higher wage in Seattle? Both states have unemployment rates for young people now that run close to 50%.
I won’t be visiting Seattle for a burger any time soon.
Now if we could convince Seattle to increase their welfare pay outs as well, that might start the migration of chronic troth feeders north that California needs to rid itself of.
Good thinking Harold!
More people will be replaced by automation.
So if 15 is good wouldn’t 20 be better? Why didn’t they vote for 20? Or 30?
No, the city council needs to now pass a wage and price freeze on everything and watch Seattle become the next Detroit.
Hey why bother with wages at all…why not free houses, cars, food, and lavish vacations for everyone! Why does anyone need to work or strive to improve at all when government can just give stuff away? Why do these progressives go through this phony incremental redistribution crap? They obviously believe in the communal thing, right? Why do they pretend to believe in the American way?
Morons…the nation is filled with morons.
Any of ya work?
How about all of us! Some are retired and STILL WORKING so others will have a job! Some of us have provided opportunities for others to have work for thirty years. Some of us payed both portions of the payroll tax for ourselves and the employee portion for employees.
What about you? How many people have you employed?
You are truly dumb Dewey. It isn’t just that you don’t have factual information; it is that you don’t even bother to try.
And so it begins.
Consumers Hit With Surcharge to Cover City’s $15 Minimum Wage:
“In the city of SeaTac, Wash., where the minimum wage is now $15 an hour, one business is charging customers a “living wage” surcharge.
An airport parking service, Masterpark, “is charging customers an additional 99 cents per parking day,” reported Northwest Watchdog.
Near SeaTac, Seattle also is hiking its minimum wage. On Monday, the city council voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage over several years until it reaches $15 an hour. In an Associated Press interview afterward, City Council member Kshama Sawant, a self-described socialist, noted that “$15 in Seattle is just the beginning.”
Many Washington state business owners already have taken Sherk’s analysis a step farther. David Jones, the owner of Blazing Onion Burger, recently put the brakes on plans to open a new Seattle restaurant. “I would love to come to Seattle,” Jones said in a CNN-Money report. “But I have to do it responsibly.”
http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/07/business-reacts-minimum-wage-hike-charging-living-wage-surcharge/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
The lady on the city council should have a long conversation with that woman from Texas that can’t afford to live in her home anymore. Their stories and positions are different but the ridiculous ideology underneath is identical. That “bigger picture” just doesn’t compute with those who hand out edicts.