Posted on 07/11/2013 6:22:37 AM PDT by servo1969
“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Isaac Newton’s Law of Motion
Washington DC Democrats passed a bill that would require retailers to pay workers at least $12.50 per hour.
Within hours of the decision Wal-Mart announced it was canceling three store openings in the area. Nice work, Democrats. WTOP reported:
The D.C. Council has passed a bill that would require large retailers like Wal-Mart to pay workers at least $12.50.
The bill now goes to Mayor Vincent Gray for his consideration. The 8-5 vote was short of the votes needed to override a veto from the mayor.
In a statement, Wal-Mart says the Council has forced the retailer’s hands and it will abandon three planned projects in the District.
“We will not pursue Skyland, Capitol Gateway, and New York Avenue and will start to review the financial and legal implications on the three stores already under construction. This was a difficult decision for us – and unfortunate news for most D.C. residents – but the Council has forced our hand,” the written statement says.
Looks to me that D.C. has just helped Wal-Mart to avoid huge property loses from the pre-planned “Saint Trayvon” memorial riots.
Did you forget your sarcasm tag?
Not really. If gov't can force people to buy a product (health insurance), and religions can be forced to go against their basic tenets, and businesses can be forced to serve a certain clientele ... forcing a company to do business in a certain area is an easy stretch.
Speaking for myself, I'd not want to patronize a business who was being forced to work with me. But, that's just me, I'm smarter than your average gov't bureaucrat.
And let's face it, it's self-serving for the politicians. This action "throws a bone" at their base without really helping them, plus it generates more tax revenue, and probably elevates some union payscales, which has a ripple effect. The pols are looking to "sqeeze" the rich a little--dip into their profits, without actually making them work at a loss. Or, if they have to work at a loss, good for them. No skin off of the DC government's back.
There is nothing ‘stupid’ about it at all.
They have the outcome that they wanted. They wanted to keep Walmart out, and they have.
If Gray does not veto, Wal-Mart should pour salt in the D.C. council’s wounds.
For example, open up stores in Maryland, just outside the D.C. city limits, hiring only Maryland residents to work there, and offer discounts to D.C. residents to shop in Maryland. Then periodically publish in D.C. advertisements that show how many jobs and how much tax revenue the city has lost “because of the greed of the city council.”
“You could have a good job with us right now, but your city council wants to keep you unemployed.”
I wasn’t being sarcastic. People who work have to be able to survive on that. The WalMart model has the owners pocketing huge profits while they undermine US workers with merchandise from third-world cesspools and the taxpayer pays the bill for the low wage workers benefits.
I believe doctors and other health providers will be targeted soon, a many of them go “free market” instead of accepting insurance and Deathcare. We’re going to start seeing lots of fines, arrests and forced-back-from-retirements.
the remaining store(s), will merely raise the prices, to compensate for the extra overhead.....everyone pays, and everyone loses....
WDC’s motto: I’d rather sit around smokin’ crack than work for less than $12.50 an hour”.
Seems to me that any time a Wal-mart worker decides that he’s not getting paid enough, he is free to leave Wal-mart’s employ.
Or did Wal-mart jobs suddenly start coming with terms of indentured servitude?
I’ve left jobs becuase I felt I was getting abused many times. It’s called voting with your feet. Honestly, how friggin’ LAZY do you have to be where you whine and piss and moan about how unfair your job is but fail to quit and find another one?
There’s the door. Use it if you feel you aren’t paid enough.
Here’s an idea...
Wally world should open a store in DC that charges the prices necessary to support their “living wage” demands. Stores that pay less then charge less. It may be the only way to show these dolts how the basic math works.
I believe that you are right. There are already rumblings of forcing all practicioners to accept Medicare.
If Walmart opened a store 50 feet outside the DC border,the punitive pricks in government would immediately annex the property.Safer to open a new walmart several miles away.
If you don’t think the wages at Wal-Mart are good, don’t work there.
Redistribution of wealth has worked so well in other countries. Just ask the dead white farmers in South Africa.
Oh wait... Sorry.
be mo like $40. damn Air Jordans be gettin spensive yo.
with dc being the richest region in the country, I don’t have a problem with a local wage requirement. If there are ill effects, they will be measurably noticed.
Imposition of such a mandate nationally has caused our current imbalance. The market will prevail. For example, the ag business has created multiple mechanicals to address problem situations. ie remote controlled tractor pulling hopper wagons along side combines means one less worker.
WalMart REALLY needs to go start operations in Russia
I believ the population would LOVE access to merchandise ala Wally World and Russia is more capitalist than many parts of America att
in terms of minimum wage and “living wage”- How many Micky D burgers are you going to purchase at $20 per if the employees paid $12.50+ per hour - to start?
If a COUPLE works for Wally at $8.25 per that is $16.50 per hour..... ever think instead of forces businesses to accommodate the single mother lifestyle, that maybe getting MARRIED is what gives FAMILIES a “living wage”? Maybe the folk ought to give it a try
Walton family makes pennies on the dollar, they just generate LOT of dollars. You got a problem with that?
Go start your own business and give away your profits and make a new model of rich and successful
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