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:
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David Farris are you really suggesting being paid enough to cover the cost of a dry warm place to sleep, enough food to eat and clean, serviceable clothes _ is “the utopian dream”….?
What a c**p attitude you have.
You do understand that people working at a restaurant do have a real job, right?
The problem isn’t the job, it is the poor pay. Minimum wage is supposed to be the minimum a person can live on. It doesn’t come close these days.
And notice they raised the prices before the wage increases went into effect. The wages increase over the next few years, the increases appear to have gone into effect immediately.
The liberals only do things to “feel” good, not do good in the long term future.
Kevin, I go there and always carry concealed.
So here is my question, why have prices continued to rise for the last 8 years even though minimum wage hasn’t????????????????????
Actually it was originally designed to be a basic living wage. Research your history before you make a blind statement. Otherwise you make a statement in error.
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