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"Final Nail to the Coffin": Chinatown Businesses Struggle Over Oakland's New Minimum Wage
NBC Bay Area ^ | Cheryl Hurd

Posted on 03/17/2015 2:58:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/17/2015 2:58:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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With Business closing ,the city will take in less taxes so they have to increase taxes on businesses , oh my


2 posted on 03/17/2015 3:02:10 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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Democrats must hate low-skilled workers.


3 posted on 03/17/2015 3:02:47 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Officials said four restaurants and six grocery stores have closed since January.

Good example of what happens when government pushes aside the free market and sets wages.

4 posted on 03/17/2015 3:03:40 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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82% of the people were this stupid...


5 posted on 03/17/2015 3:03:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: nickcarraway

Plus they got wise at the animal shelter about all of Mr. Chan’s cat adoptions.


6 posted on 03/17/2015 3:04:02 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Why Democracy sucks!


7 posted on 03/17/2015 3:04:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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We get to kill more businesses! We get to kill more businesses!


8 posted on 03/17/2015 3:04:50 PM PDT by TBP (trash only")
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""It was just implemented two weeks ago," Guillen said. "In the long run it will benefit the entire community."

Lib logic! Isn't it amazing? (Did I just use an oxymoron?)

9 posted on 03/17/2015 3:05:09 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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LOL

What did they do, implement a food supply tax?


10 posted on 03/17/2015 3:05:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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"In the long run it will benefit the entire community."

Those restaurants making huge profits will just scrape by now. Those not making huge profits will close, leaving their workers with no jobs. They will become dependent on the government for benefits and will vote for Democrats forever.

"See, I told you in the long run it will benefit the entire community."

11 posted on 03/17/2015 3:05:38 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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“Many business owners are blaming the 36 percent wage hike, while some said the businesses were already in financial distress.”

Whether they were in distress or not, the jobs are now definitely gone.


12 posted on 03/17/2015 3:06:19 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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LOL.


13 posted on 03/17/2015 3:06:53 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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Yes, only ten bussines have gone under in two weeks. At least 125 should have to go under for this to be seen as a real failure. /s


14 posted on 03/17/2015 3:06:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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California Stupid


15 posted on 03/17/2015 3:07:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Simple supply and demand. If you raise the price of something, demand will go down and less will be bought. That includes labor. The social engineers either don't understand this, or they think they are smart enough to know how elastic the price of labor is-- but they are not. That will be determined by the buyers (employers), thank you.
16 posted on 03/17/2015 3:07:02 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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What is totally missed there, is that this was the final straw for those businesses. They can’t admit to that.

As you said, the jobs are gone. Eh, what’s a few tens or hundreds of jobs anyway. This is America, land of the under employed.


17 posted on 03/17/2015 3:08:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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Fire everyone except your best employee and go buffet.


18 posted on 03/17/2015 3:09:01 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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Venezuela has a minimum wage but toilet paper isn’t available in stores, and if it is, few can afford it.

I hope the Marxists in Oakland stocks up on toilet paper.


19 posted on 03/17/2015 3:09:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Welcome, workers, to the real minimum wage — $0.00


20 posted on 03/17/2015 3:10:47 PM PDT by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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