Posted on 03/17/2015 8:50:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yeah, the idiots couldn’t see this stuff coming? Amazing.
As Hillary! once said, and I paraphrase: “It’s not the fault of the government that these businesses are undercapitalized”.
Gonna be interesting to see what this does to the whole notion of tipping in Seattle. Will people tip a waiter who makes $15 an hour? I could see this being disruptive to the way waiters and their patrons have traditionally related. I wonder if the sophisticated inhabitants of that city who enjoy the full restaurant experience have considered this possible loss of culture. Liberals simply do not understand that swinging the Marxist billy club around can cause damage to delicate things in unexpected ways.
That's an interesting point. It also drives out the kinds of businesses that rely on entry level labor. I guess the end result would be a kind of sanitised up-market never-never land.
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This whole minimum wage ruse was for the benefit of the unions. First, numerous union negotiated collective bargaining agreements (CBA) tie union member wages to increases in the minimum and living wage. This increases the wealth of the union from increased union dues.
Second, several recent minimum and living wage laws allow for the new wage standard to be waived in a union contract. This exemption came to light during the SeaTac (a suburb of Seattle, Washington) $15 dollar per hour living wage ballot measure, which allowed for unionized employers to be exempt from the new wage increases and sick leave mandate.
Union exemptions from living wage laws give unions an unfair bargaining chip that is unavailable to individual workers attempting to negotiate their own pay and benefits. What this does is draw new workers into union franchises. This serves to increase union monetary returns from dues and will not help low income workers.
stupidity can be pretty sad.
The restaurants that do stay in business by charging more should be okay since theres less competition. People will always dine out just not in the same numbers. It always gets back to supply and demand.
For the city however and for property prices its a different story. Now new businesses will have to set up which may or may not happen. Theres also the issue of the type of business. Not every operation needs or desires what a restaurant space has to offer which is a window facing the street.
why anyone listens to anyone on the left in regards to business or the economy is beyond me.
i could have listed off the effects immediately. they’re not mysterious in the least.
Let see how long this will take to isolate Seattle then watch it dry up. As city fathers complain about nearby communities profiting from their collective stupidity. Or complain about an underground economy that springs up like mushrooms run mostly by illegals and goes out of control.
Won’t be just restaurants it’s the tourist industry as a whole. Kiss the convention business goodbye. Nobody will want to go there because its too expensive and not worth it. If your a Senior living there you’re so screwed.
This would have painfully obvious to any one with the business experience of running a lemonade stand.
I don’t see how this is a racial issue.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Federal contractors (due to the Davis-Bacon Act) have to pay union employees (e.g., road construction crews) a multiple of the local minimum wage. That’s why unions support raising minimum wages.
The “ordinary” folks either lose their jobs or get a raise of $5 an hour. The union workers get at least double that amount, and their jobs are pretty much guaranteed.
“To me this sounded like killing people...”
Agreed. Vaccinate the African population into oblivion...
As I understand it, parking in Seattle is a pretty big deal. I visited Seattle recently and was very impressed with their transit system. A lot of well-paid Amazon and MS people commute via bus, ferry or water taxi due to the exorbitant cost of limited parking in downtown.
You mean socialist top-down central-planning wage-price-controls don’t work????
C’mon!
This country will become like Western Europe where going to McDonalds is considered dining out at I have read $20+ per person. Residents in the UK do not dine out because it is too expensive so when you want to meet friends and family to break bread you do it at someone’s house.
Time to bring back the automat restaurants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
I actually to one of the last ones in NYC during the 70s.
so, it’s true...... in Seattle there is no free lunch
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