to = too
In before the grammar police
Oh what do these job creators know! They’re just evil, white, rich, old SOB’s who make their money off the backs of the workin’ man!
“...supports raising the wage on the national level, but is concerned a local hike would cause some businesses to relocate...”
Huhhhh...??
A lot of businesses don’t really care what they are paying, so long as their competitors are not paying less.
But then they all have to raise their prices concurrently, which defeats the whole purpose.
Then there are the cases like Costco, which lobbies for a higher minimum specifically because they know their competition CAN’T pay it.
says the issue should be studied further.”
...”study” no further! The “issue” is that businesses will close, people will lose jobs and the ones that keep them will be worse off then ever because Big Macs will go through the roof. Hence, the asswipes that got the raise will want another...and another. So “study”?! All done.
Note the assertion that the locality has no damn power to set wages and salaries.
This should settle it, regardless of the merits of higher or lower minimum wages.
(By the way, why are liberals so stingy with other peoples’ money? If you can compel Joe to pay Jim $8 an hour, why not compel Jim to pay $88888888888888888888 per hour? Hell, I am waaaaaaay more compassionate than liberals. I’d set the minimum wage to $888888888888888888888888888888888888 per hour.)
Alison’s recent mailer says raising the minimum wage will create jobs.
#YouMightBeALiberal if you think employers will increase their total wage budgets if the minimum wage were raised rather than spend the same amount on fewer workers.