'Living wage' threatens child care

Boston Globe ^ | 7/22/02 | Sarah Schweitzer

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

As many as 360 families, all low-income and many headed by former welfare recipients, could lose government- subsidized child care in coming weeks because providers say they won't be able to staff their centers if forced to pay the city's so-called living wage.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

What happens when that financing runs dry? Increase cigarette taxes again? We can't increase SUV taxes after grayout's new legislation, Clinton already nailed the business community, it would be tough to raise capital gains now, they won't allow us to drill so they can't justify fuel taxes, and housing is doing well so what sense does it make to kill it?

Could big government have been trying to give away too much to begin with?

Is minumum wage a "working level job" or a start into a career?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Boston requires city contractors to pay a minimum of $10.54 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage of $5.15. The providers say they can't afford to pay the wage and have appealed to the city for an exemption.

A classic example of New England socialists not understanding the economic law of supply and demand, and the physical law of action and reaction. They will, of course, grant the exemption "for the children" and break their own law.

[Seruzawa]

This sort of stuff is good news for any surrounding areas that aren't run by pie-in-the-sky socialist boobs. Just think of the boon for child care providers in the neighboring jurisdictions.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

They will, of course, grant the exemption "for the children" and break their own law.

Hillary was very "willing" to do the same during the last administration.

[general_re]

Can I say I told you so now? Perhaps you'd like to explain why this is a good idea again, using the famous "parsy chickens"? ;)

[Maceman]

What are parsy chickens?

[Maceman]

Everybody's income is somebody else's cost.

[shaggy eel]

What are parsy chickens?

,,, don't admit to anything!

[general_re]

What are parsy chickens?

I'll let parsy explain it himself. He can't help himself - he loves those chickens :^)

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Everybody's income is somebody else's cost.

Clinton made a lot of money off Enron, Global Crossing, the commies, Whitewater...

[shaggy eel]

he loves those chickens

,,, that's why I told him to admit to nothing, unless it's in the context of eating a chicken dish.

[fuquadukie]

Douglas S. Baird, president and CEO of Associated Early Care & Education, said he probably would shift his workers to caring for children whose parents can pay for day care.

Dude, what a radical idea. Paying customers.

Uh oh, Jesse and his kind will probably scream "Discrimination!", though.

And, what's going to happen when some people fimnd out they "make too much money" to get the freebies of life -- the EITC is less, etc. Can't wait for this.

[general_re]

He can't help it. Watch and see...

[parsifal]

You can tell me you "told me so" if it makes you feel better, but I don't know what you're talking about. I hope Boston holds firm, here. If these poor women can't make enough to live, then the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab for welfare relief. You can pay them now, or pay them later. The "chickens" will come home to roost, either way. Cockle-doodle-doo! parsy the king of the barnyard.

[general_re]

I don't know what you're talking about.

How convenient ;)

[denydenydeny]

Parsifal is a socialist, as if you didn't already know.

Unintended consequences bump.

[parsifal]

Darn. I can't find my darn chickens. I found the fair wage primer, but not the darn chickens. You don't remember where I left them, do you? parsy bo peep.

[general_re]

Yeah, but parsy means well. He has all the wrong ideas for all the right reasons ;)

[parsifal]

A socialist? Little old me, the business mavin? Hardly. A good cost accountant mebbe. One who knows that everything has a cost and that capitalists shouldn't act like Worldcom execs and keep some of their expenses, LIKE FOOD FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES, off the P&L. parsy the good honest little capitalist.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

The only problem with your line of thought (other than the troubling existence of a welfare society to begin with) is that is assumes that everyone who is working needs to live off their wages.

cluck, cluck