Bernie Raises Wages!

MikeDamone said:

RaceBannon said:

Tahlib has raised the ante to a 20 dollar minimum wage.

Why stop there?

Since wage laws don’t affect employment it should be $200/hour. Gas pumpers will be living in $800k houses and vacationing in Europe. Everyone is entitled to two weeks in Monaco. Why is it fair that only rich people get to go? Lowe’s toilet salesman work just as hard as Jeff Bezos. Maybe harder.

TurdBomber said:

2001400ex said:

MikeDamone said:

2001400ex said:

MikeDamone said:

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

YellowSnow said:

I don’t have a huge beef with the Seattle $15 per hour min wage. Didn’t support it but what evs. $15 nationally is fucking idiotic.

All minimum wages are idiotic. Making it illegal for people to work who aren’t worth the minimum wage is immoral.

I was against $15 an hour in Seattle for the reasons you and @Southerndawg have stated here. But it’s a high rent district up here and not a hill worth dying on. That said, $15 an hr in Topeka, KS is like $25 or $30 an hour is Seattle. It’s a ludicrous number for all but the 10 or so most expensive cities in the US.

I’m against a minimum wage because I actually care about the poor.

Yes paying poor people less money helps them. Damoan on economics right there.

Economic ignorance and Hondo go hand in hand.

Oh that's right. Mike thinks that when you raise minimum wage, business owners cut jobs. Even tho that's never happened in the history of minimum wage increases.

Yes it has, and it is, right now. And you’re a fucking idiot.

When the Murray commissioned UW study came out showing that jobs had been eliminated on account of the $15 MW, Murray had to scramble and hire a MW Advocate Cal Prof and Sawant Acolyte who’d never written anything but pieces supporting MWs as “living wages” to compile a quick & dirty bullshit study to contradict the UW’s findings.

And last week the biggest restaurant chain in the NW filed bankruptcy, citing the MW as a key contributing factor.

So Fuck Off, Burger Boy. You don’t know shit about the consequences of the $15 MW in the PNW.

2001400ex said:

TurdBomber said:

2001400ex said:

MikeDamone said:

2001400ex said:

MikeDamone said:

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

YellowSnow said:

I don’t have a huge beef with the Seattle $15 per hour min wage. Didn’t support it but what evs. $15 nationally is fucking idiotic.

All minimum wages are idiotic. Making it illegal for people to work who aren’t worth the minimum wage is immoral.

I was against $15 an hour in Seattle for the reasons you and @Southerndawg have stated here. But it’s a high rent district up here and not a hill worth dying on. That said, $15 an hr in Topeka, KS is like $25 or $30 an hour is Seattle. It’s a ludicrous number for all but the 10 or so most expensive cities in the US.

I’m against a minimum wage because I actually care about the poor.

Yes paying poor people less money helps them. Damoan on economics right there.

Economic ignorance and Hondo go hand in hand.

Oh that's right. Mike thinks that when you raise minimum wage, business owners cut jobs. Even tho that's never happened in the history of minimum wage increases.

Yes it has, and it is, right now. And you’re a fucking idiot.

When the Murray commissioned UW study came out showing that jobs had been eliminated on account of the $15 MW, Murray had to scramble and hire a MW Advocate Cal Prof and Sawant Acolyte who’d never written anything but pieces supporting MWs as “living wages” to compile a quick & dirty bullshit study to contradict the UW’s findings.

And last week the biggest restaurant chain in the NW filed bankruptcy, citing the MW as a key contributing factor.

So Fuck Off, Burger Boy. You don’t know shit about the consequences of the $15 MW in the PNW.

$15 is only in a couple cities in Washington. And I know what business owners cite as their excuses. But it's usually shitty business models as the true cause. Ask Dick's if the minimum wage is hurting their business.

What you aren't saying about restaurants unlimited is their revenue is going down (shitty business model) and they leveraged $40 million of debt. They started to try to sell to another company in 16 without a buyer. They haven't paid debt since January. That's not a minimum wage issue. But keep reading redstate.com, whatever makes you feel better.