Posted on 04/17/2016 7:00:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Re: “The level of economic ignorance in this country is astounding...”
I come from five generations of independent business owners.
I avidly support the $15 minimum wage.
Two reasons:
(1) It completely annihilates the political and business rationale for massive LEGAL immigration. We can’t import cheap, socialist voting laborers anymore because there is no cheap labor anymore, and, because they will keep voting themselves pay raises.
(2) It destroys the cheap labor business model. Independent business owners have three choices. Change their business plan. Or, invest in labor saving software and machines. Or, go bankrupt.
A high legal minimum wage is going to create more demand for under the table workers who will accept less.
How about they stop working at the $7 an hour job and find one that pays $15 an hour. Oh, not capable of doing the job, oh not qualified to do the job, oh did not bother to learn English so you could get a $15 an hour job. Come back when you are actually worth paying $15 an hour.
“I’m hoping that what happens in California will not stay in California, but spread all across the country.”
I am confident that will happen. Hundreds of thousands of California businesses will not stay in California but will spread all across the country.
Take them to a local McDonalds and ask to speak to the “rich CEO”.
“With these housing costs how would you expect anyone to live on the same wages as Savannah, Georgia?”
How? By moving to ****ing Savannah GA.
Why is “move somewhere affordable” never considered an option?
Those family-friendly local owned eateries are now mostly found in ethnic neighborhoods, Latin, Asian and such and use family as labor.
“well, these rich CEO’s can afford to give workers a raise.”
Divide what the CEOs have by the number of workers, and you don’t end up with much going around.
A dramatic scene in “In Time” shows a rich guy with a safe containing a million years of sharable life, which a million people wanted to redistribute. Struck me how the great benefit to one meant so little to those demanding its redistribution, once they got their share.
Actually, regulation of minimum wages and other employment conditions is well within the traditional police powers of our state governments. They are completely free to establish good laws, bad laws, or no laws at all in these areas, as their elected representatives see fit.
On the other hand, Congress has no jurisdiction whatsoever in these areas, except as that presposterously read into the Constitution by the SCOTUS's rediculously expansive view of the commerce clause. If the Fed's stuck to their remit under our Constitution, Congress could meet about a month every other year to handle truly important federal questions, while most of what your congresscritters in the D. Of C. spend their time wrangling about would be dealt with in your state capital, just up the road from you.
Far more scarey are words “social justice”.
Social justice is “liberal-ese” for “hold on tight to your wallets”
Quite frankly, for FAST food, I would welcome the highly automated process - if I can select the burger+fries the way I like it, there is no need for a cashier, they bring no benefit
Ditto for automated creation of the standardized product. It can then just be put out in a output area for me to fetch on my own.
I want human interaction for personalized products - like a waiter at a mid to upscale restaurant can enhance the experience, but the ppl in the fast food area o not bring any such enhancement
The wage and price controls by President Nixon tanked the economy. Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets. Have we not learned by our mistakes?
Have we not learned by our mistakes?
Do we ever?
Like Socialism, there’s always some idiot who will be the one that “does it right.”
Good question....
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