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 $12.25 is being implemented by certain retailers.
See who is raising prices in San Francisco, page 2:
F**k it I’m still eating it.
Those of you who have never owned or managed a small business have no clue what you’re talking about. If you’re forced to pay kids a lot more than rhe market demands, prices must increase of the business won’t survive.
Jim and John….and how well are those “social services” working out? Infrastructure crumbling, schools failing to actually educate, social security hemorrhaging money, corruption are a ridiculously high rate in the police sector? I mean….I guess firefighters still put out fires most of the time right?
I only called you a moron because you present yourself as one. My apologies that it probably insults morons, calling you one.
Wow, so many people on this list posting in fear of the big bad CEO’s while blaming the folks asking for livable wages? Most of you are hilarious how you can’t see the real cause of the problem is the people paying c**p wages while making millions and then hurting working people more when they don’t get to pay bargain bin prices for labor.
You all should start your posts with “I’m not really paying attention, but I want to hate the person nearest me….”
Chipotle sucks and is a greedy company. We gotta make 20 billions dollars,$#%&!@*our workers and customers. What a bunch of assholes. Please support local restaurants and stop going to super unhealthy Chipolte.
I love the older generations that complain about us lazy young uns unfortuneatly they are/ were too dumb to realize that trickle down never worked we have ceos that make literally thousands of times more than the MEDIAN worker not even the lowest paid worker never mind the chipotle ceo alone makes 1522 TIMES the median worker salary of 19,000 (well below the considered poverty line) lets do math you low education mongoloids he makes literally 2,891,800 per year and thats directly as a result of your generations decision making ability i pay literally 300% than what your generations pay for school as a result of your generations wanting free$#%&!@*education (sound familiar?) The government gave out grants out the$#%&!@*colleges figured out oh wait we can charge more!! And every other business as well as a matter of fact look at our inflation im a skilled worker as well (mechanic) yet many in my field are paid barely over minimum wage i struggle to pau for my own apartment and go to school yet i live paycheck fo paycheck while working 50+ hours being told im lazy by out of touch narcissists and i need to “do” more even tho i already do more then what they did back in the day the way the country is now is 100% a result of the older generations wanting more and more$#%&!@*didnt care how or why they got it while simultaneously your government and leaders bent you over backwards and took you to the cleaners do you not realize you helped create modern economic slavery?? Do you not realize a properly regulated trickle up has proven to work time and time again or do you people honestly sit at home and think “oh the rich that just keep getting richer are suddenly going to shower me with wealth if only i work harder!!” While simultaneously blaming obama and millenials for the economy do you not realize / see how fighting to raise MINIMUM wage is in essence hurting your own chance at increasing wages?? You wont fucking stay at 15 per hour if johnnny burger flipper is as well unless you work at fucked company or you literally have no education inflation has reared it ugly head since the country was handed over to you i dont want free$#%&!@*or$#%&!@*handed to me i just want AFFORDABLE$#%&!@*like YOU had im not a republican or democrat but an independent but you people really dont even see how your government is in bed with big business regarless of political ties the government was put in place to protect its people not to protect big business and exploit its people if a business is too big to fail then no person in the USA should be living in poverty considering if that money has actually gone to the PEOPLE instead of AIG BANK OF AMERICA GOLDMAN SACHS this economy would be RETARDELY BETTER OFF! Remember W?? He was actually praised for his 300 tax rebate ro americans and what happend after that? Our economy had a brief huge jump its proven time and time again more money in people pockets the better off we abd the country will be not in rich hands that miser
I love the older generations that complain about us lazy young uns unfortuneatly they are/ were too dumb to realize that trickle down never worked we have ceos that make literally thousands of times more than the MEDIAN worker not even the lowest paid worker never mind the chipotle ceo alone makes 1522 TIMES the median worker salary of 19,000 (well below the considered poverty line) lets do math you low education mongoloids he makes literally 2,891,800 per year and thats directly as a result of your generations decision making ability i pay literally 300% than what your generations pay for school as a result of your generations wanting free$#%&!@*education (sound familiar?) The government gave out grants out the$#%&!@*colleges figured out oh wait we can charge more!! And every other business as well as a matter of fact look at our inflation im a skilled worker as well (mechanic) yet many in my field are paid barely over minimum wage i struggle to pau for my own apartment and go to school yet i live paycheck fo paycheck while working 50+ hours being told im lazy by out of touch narcissists and i need to “do” more even tho i already do more then what they did back in the day the way the country is now is 100% a result of the older generations wanting more and more$#%&!@*didnt care how or why they got it while simultaneously your government and leaders bent you over backwards and took you to the cleaners do you not realize you helped create modern economic slavery?? Do you not realize a properly regulated trickle up has proven to work time and time again or do you people honestly sit at home and think “oh the rich that just keep getting richer are suddenly going to shower me with wealth if only i work harder!!” While simultaneously blaming obama and millenials for the economy do you not realize / see how fighting to raise MINIMUM wage is in essence hurting your own chance at increasing wages?? You wont fucking stay at 15 per hour if johnnny burger flipper is as well unless you work at fucked company or you literally have no education inflation has reared it ugly head since the country was handed over to you i dont want free$#%&!@*or$#%&!@*handed to me i just want AFFORDABLE$#%&!@*like YOU had im not a republican or democrat but an independent but you people really dont even see how your government is in bed with big business regarless of political ties the government was put in place to protect its people not to protect big business and exploit its people if a business is too big to fail then no person in the USA should be living in poverty considering if that money has actually gone to the PEOPLE instead of AIG BANK OF AMERICA GOLDMAN SACHS this economy would be RETARDELY BETTER OFF! Remember W?? He was actually praised for his 300 tax rebate ro americans and what happend after that? Our economy had a brief huge jump its proven time and time again more money in people pockets the better off we abd the country will be not in rich hands that miser
20 dollars? I see your math skills are limited and you’d probably benifit from a higher minimum wage.
So if minimum wage is increased all skilled position or labor intensive wages should also be increased. Why would I want to work be a laborer for road construction working long hours in the sun and rain when I could put together a hamburger for the same wage? We are going to loose a generation that has already proven they want stuff handed to them to these kinds of jobs when what we really need is people building things.