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Live on every newscast, Malloy signs $10.10 minimum wage bill
The CTMirror ^ | March 28, 2014 | Mark Pazniokas

Posted on 03/28/2014 7:16:46 AM PDT by Biggirl

New Britain -- Precisely timed to attract live coverage Thursday at the top of three local 6 o'clock newscasts, a jubilant Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law a bill that makes Connecticut the first state to embrace President Obama's goal of a $10.10 minimum wage.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: malloy; minimumwage; newbritain
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To: Free Vulcan

Look for automation to come faster.


41 posted on 03/28/2014 8:12:12 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl
Republicans should come out with a TV commercial spoof of

Where's the jobs!


42 posted on 03/28/2014 8:12:56 AM PDT by McGruff (They say the first casualty of war is truth)
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To: Biggirl

Connecticut: Because California *just* hasn’t gone far enough to the left.


43 posted on 03/28/2014 8:13:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Biggirl

"Enjoy your *BIG ASS* Fries."

44 posted on 03/28/2014 8:14:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rktman

100s fast food workers replaced by automated kiosks. Story at 11.


45 posted on 03/28/2014 8:16:51 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html


46 posted on 03/28/2014 8:22:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: Biggirl

I wonder if the Sandy Hook hoax crisis actors can get the wage increase retroactive?


47 posted on 03/28/2014 8:28:49 AM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: Biggirl

And how many jobs will be lost? How many small businesses will close? Way to go there Malloy.


48 posted on 03/28/2014 8:29:51 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
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To: Biggirl
Here's an example of those new jobs this will bring.

WINSTED -- A proposal for a medical marijuana dispensary at the former Kentucky Fried Chicken on Route 44 has received approval from a local regulatory agency and now needs only a license from the state.

The Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-1 Monday in support of Nutmeg State Health and Wellness Center Inc.'s application. The approval means it can now be considered by the state Department of Consumer Protection for one of up to five licenses it intends to issue within the next two weeks.

49 posted on 03/28/2014 8:33:02 AM PDT by McGruff (They say the first casualty of war is truth)
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To: Biggirl

http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html

12. The Right to Employment and the Right to Profit

1.283
“Brothers, assess yourselves to furnish me work at your price.” This is the right to employment, elementary or first-degree socialism.

1.284
“Brothers, assess yourselves to furnish me work at my price.” This is the right to profit, refined or second-degree socialism.

1.285
Both live by virtue of such of their effects as are seen. They will die from those of their effects that are not seen.

1.286
What is seen is the work and the profit stimulated by the assessments levied on society. What is not seen is the work and the profits that would come from this same amount of money if it were left in the hands of the taxpayers themselves.

1.287
In 1848 the right to employment showed itself for a moment with two faces. That was enough to ruin it in public opinion.

1.288
One of these faces was called: National workshop.

1.289
The other: Forty-five centimes.*19

1.290
Millions went every day from the rue de Rivoli to the national workshops. This was the beautiful side of the coin.

1.291
But here is what was on the other side. In order for millions of francs to come out of a coffer, they must first have come into it. That is why the organizers of the right to employment addressed themselves to the taxpayers.

1.292
Now, the farmers said: “I must pay forty-five centimes. Then I shall be deprived of clothes; I cannot marl my field; I cannot have my house repaired.”

1.293
And the hired hands said: “Since our boss is not going to have any new clothes, there will be less work for the tailor; since he is not going to have his field marled, there will be less work for the ditchdigger; since he is not going to have his house repaired, there will be less work for the carpenter and the mason.”

1.294
It was therefore proved that you cannot profit twice from the same transaction, and that the work paid for by the government was created at the expense of work that would have been paid for by the taxpayer. That was the end of the right to employment, which came to be seen as an illusion as well as an injustice.

1.295
However, the right to profit, which is nothing but an exaggeration of the right to employment, is still alive and flourishing.

1.296
Is there not something shameful in the role that the protectionist makes society play?

1.297
He says to society:

1.298
“You must give me work, and, what is more, lucrative work. I have foolishly chosen an industry that leaves me with a loss of ten per cent. If you slap a tax of twenty francs on my fellow citizens and excuse me from paying it, my loss will be converted into a profit. Now, profit is a right; you owe it to me.”

1.299
The society that listens to this sophist, that will levy taxes on itself to satisfy him, that does not perceive that the loss wiped out in one industry is no less a loss because others are forced to shoulder it—this society, I say, deserves the burden placed upon it.

1.300
Thus, we see, from the many subjects I have dealt with, that not to know political economy is to allow oneself to be dazzled by the immediate effect of a phenomenon; to know political economy is to take into account the sum total of all effects, both immediate and future.**10

1.301
I could submit here a host of other questions to the same test. But I desist from doing so, because of the monotony of demonstrations that would always be the same, and I conclude by applying to political economy what Chateaubriand*20 said of history:

There are two consequences in history: one immediate and instantaneously recognized; the other distant and unperceived at first. These consequences often contradict each other; the former come from our short-run wisdom, the latter from long-run wisdom. The providential event appears after the human event. Behind men rises God. Deny as much as you wish the Supreme Wisdom, do not believe in its action, dispute over words, call what the common man calls Providence “the force of circumstances” or “reason”; but look at the end of an accomplished fact, and you will see that it has always produced the opposite of what was expected when it has not been founded from the first on morality and justice.
(Chateaubriand, Memoirs from beyond the Tomb.)


50 posted on 03/28/2014 8:42:17 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: Biggirl

That big “thump” you just heard was hundreds of untrained and marginal employees hitting the unemployment line.


51 posted on 03/28/2014 9:07:12 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Biggirl

Connecticut? What is a Connecticut? It that a state or
something. I thought they turned that area into a land
fill. They don’t expect us to take anything Connecticut
does seriously? It’s just a dump.


52 posted on 03/28/2014 9:07:51 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: skams19

“As Connecticut goes, so goes Delaware.”

What is a Delaware.............


53 posted on 03/28/2014 9:08:39 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Biggirl

libtard policies-—>big government-—> government interventionism-—> mixed economy—>favoritism, vote buying, pressure group and special interest group warfare, corruption, and victimization of the individual taxpayer


54 posted on 03/28/2014 9:09:39 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Slambat

Let’s just say it sends two college basketball teams to “March Madness”.


55 posted on 03/28/2014 9:11:07 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: F15Eagle

I’ve been slowly weeding them out over the years. The jobs are seasonal, so when the season is done, guess who gets cut first? :)


56 posted on 03/28/2014 9:14:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Norseman
At least it’s being done at the state level, rather than the federal, so we can see the result in contrast to other states.

Fat lot of good it will do. The government/lefty types will ignore the numbers, or create them out of whole-cloth, declare it a raging success and then foist it on the rest of the nation. Does Romney-care ring a bell?

57 posted on 03/28/2014 9:32:43 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Biggirl

I want to hear about the job losses there in the next month.


58 posted on 03/28/2014 10:07:31 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: All

Malloy, he’s just plumbing the depths...

From George Mason University, State fiscal rankings:

http://mercatus.org/publication/state-fiscal-condition-ranking-50-states


59 posted on 03/28/2014 10:44:07 AM PDT by Third Person
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To: Biggirl

The clown-governor is taking his instructions from the White Hut CIC. (Clown-in-Chief) I am so glad to have moved out of CT in 1987. The state was going from bad to worse and had been suckered into an income tax added to high property taxes. Conservatives were so few, it had begun to swing from moderate to full left as all of the New England/Northeast states had done. Besides, I like warmer climes!

Minimum wage increases do nothing but increase retail costs.

Result: The burger flipper can’t afford to eat at his own place of employment!


60 posted on 03/28/2014 11:44:38 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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