Liberals subscribe to magical thinking, believing that free college tuition and free health care to illegals will somehow end up a net win for the public. But reality often intrudes on this magical thinking like a big pimple on the end of your nose, and it is painful and unsightly. In this case, the laws of economics are intruding into the magical thinking of liberal politicians in San Francisco (as if there were any other kind there), and it is a growing problem.
San Francisco has declared that the minimum wage in the city, now being replicated in several other fact-challenged cities, will rise to $15 by 2018, and polls there predict happy, better-paid workers who will finally have a “living wage.” They have also insisted that this will not increase inflation and that it will be a boon to the minimum wage worker. That is a lie. And the impact is just now showing up as the first mandated rise from $10.74 to $12.25 is being implemented by certain retailers.
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Dont forget the middle class. We will be closer to the poverty line while the wealthy business owners will still find a way to keep their income. A minimum wage increase is not the answer. Education is the answer. Not in finance or general studies. Go learn a trade. Millions of talented, skilled workers are leaving the work force with nobody to replace them. Hard work never hurt anyone, so why are we so scared of it.
More fascist rhetoric from “Truth and Action”. This guy continually twist the facts to fit his right wing agenda. Raising the minimum wage has consistently been shown to improve the local economy. If you think Chipotles garbage food isn’t worth the money, don’t buy it. Only a retard thinks it’s ok for someone to work full time and not make enough money to live on. I’d like to see “Truth” live on $7.50 and hour.
Payroll taxes are the biggest government theft. Most people who are not business owners don’t even know they exist. You’re exactly right. I’ve always wondered- If the government is taking tax money from a worker’s paycheck, why does the employer ALSO have to pay tax on that money? That’s outright extortion, in my opinion.
Raise of minimum wage means higher unemployment rates… Watch bitches… They will cut jobs to accommodate the rise of wages
So ……they did what they were going to do anyway?
So……go ahead bash the poor…..that fixes everything…..
Does anyone pay attention to the stock market? Record profits for corporations and then they turn around and cry if anyone mentions a minimum wage increase. There is nothing wrong with taking some of that record profit and reinvesting it in employees. Ironic how the exact description of trickle down economics when mentioned by a Democrat as minimum wage increase is decried and bashed by republicans and you folks said trickle down worked…..
Mark Harrison not to mention stores are franchises. They are independently owned and operated. This is why schools should teach about the real world and not global warming and multiculturalism.
We should know better than to respond with sense and facts to liberals. It’s too much for their little minds to handle. It’s might be even considered a “micro aggression” lol!
“laws of economics are intruding into the magical thinking of liberal politicians in San Francisco” Great line!