Los Angeles raises minimum wage to $15 per hour (rent, buying)

[MordinSolus]

Originally Posted by forty and out

Guess what. Businesses don't stay in business to lose money. The money payed to workers will come from higher priced products produced by said company. Or workers will get layed off. Sheesh. Even the great Oprah layed off workers while her company was losing money.

What I don't get from all the tree-huggers out in California why they walk around with their Apple phones, Googling Facebook while those companies have their money parked offshore avoiding taxes. No outrage when Obama, the man of the people, sits down at Silicon Valley with his hand out.

Don't tell me well Republicans do the same thing. We already know Republicans are the party of the rich.

Troll post of the week.

[blam]

Nobody yet raised minimum wage to $15. They agreed to raise it to $15 it 2020!. That's a reeeeaaally long time. That is not going to even keep up with the price of anything. What is it now? $9 dollars? Santa Fe, New Mexico has a higher minimum wage than that and so do all western European and other developed countries. Minimum wage and even median wage in america is laughable.

[909er]

I'm a Republican business owner and I will tell you two things.

1) My profit will decrease, therefore my prices must rise. YOU will pay this minimum wage, not me.

2) Hours will be cut. I will not keep people on the dole unless they are making me money. No customers in the store = no employees on the book at that time.

[909er]

Minimum wage and even median wage in america is laughable.

Yet we are the #1 country in the world. How do we maintain that? No country has the amount and mix of amenities that the US has to offer. Some countries may have an individual stat here and there that is better, but as a whole, nobody beats America.

[blam]

Originally Posted by 909er

Yet we are the #1 country in the world. How do we maintain that? No country has the amount and mix of amenities that the US has to offer. Some countries may have an individual stat here and there that is better, but as a whole, nobody beats America.

Yes we are the number 1 country in the world if you include incarceration rate, homicides, obesity and healthcare costs as a positive. 90% of Europeans arriving at JFK think their plane got diverted and had to make an emergency landing in a 3rd world country.

[YoungTraveler2011]

why stop at 15? why not raise the minimum wage to 100k/yr?

should solve all our problems. no more poor people.

[blam]

Originally Posted by YoungTraveler2011

why stop at 15? why not raise the minimum wage to 100k/yr?

should solve all our problems. no more poor people.

Why have it at $9? Why not lower it to $1? Can you imagine how many more people businesses could hire? You could probably bring back all those jobs from China and India along with their quality of life back to America.

[909er]

Why not lower it to $1? Can you imagine how many more people businesses could hire? You could probably bring back all those jobs from China and India along with their quality of life back to America.

I've always been an advocate of abolishing the minimum wage, it would vaporize unemployment in America. And we have a free market, the COL in most areas would adjust accordingly. In fact, if they would prosecute the banksters, the COL would adjust down to reasonable levels in L.A. as well.

[CA4Now]

California politicians recognize this mindset and gouge the pocketbooks of those who share it. I[/quote]

[CA4Now]

"On June 10, I cast the City Council's lone “no” vote on the $15-an-hour minimum wage proposal. While everyone agrees that there is genuine poverty in the city of Los Angeles, no wage increase can be high enough to offset the effect of job loss or reduced working hours that will result from a remedy that puts the complete burden on the backs of business."

Why the $15 minimum wage got my 'no' vote - LA Times