Ultimately the endeavor is fruitless for the well-meaning, a temporary inconvenience for big corporations, unworkable for small businesses, bountiful for the unions, and terrible for Sheila.
Minimum wage has gone up many times and we’re still here. In fact, the economy couldn’t be better. Why not just raise it with social security every year. That would take it off the table as an issue for Dems.
Outlaw public sector unions and hang their leadership.
The true minimum wage is $0
We’re on the cusp of the robotics dot com boom. Boston will be a big player in robotics start ups due to MIT and similar. The faster they raise the minimum wage, the faster robots take off. Unlike bio-robot imports, real robots don’t vote Democrat.
A 240% pay raise? You just gotta love union logic and unprofessional government employees who like to think they are in the real world.
Minimum wage is a price control, and therefore communist.
Besides all the usual ills, it has led to the illegal alien problem. FRers often blame companies for hiring illegals, but they are cheap under the table labor compared to paying the communist wage.
Get rid of the MW and the illegals will go away.
The government does not have the right to set an hourly pay rate.
Minimum wage: if you aren’t productive enough, the gov’t won’t let you produce at all.
So true about robotics! I had MIT grad students spend a few hours photographing tomatoes for a harvesting robot they were designing. We discussed the economics of farming and the tipping point for how much you can afford to pay workers (if you can find them), considering even the WF shopper is going to choose Canada over MA if the price is too steep. If they can design a robot for a reasonable price, we could replace at least one full time employee.
PLUS, let’s not forget that the $15 hike comes with the increased unemployment insurance, worker’s comp, payroll tax.....
Here’s a BETTER idea, govt\Leftist teet leech:
Open your OWN biz, pay YOUR employees whatever YOU think justified, as well as the bennies.