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Another Leftist policy that backfires. Do they not get tired of failing? (Of course they’ll never admit it and will then go on to enact another law/tax to try to fix the previous failed law/tax.) It is a never ending cycle.
Wait so waitresses are making $15/hr plus tips? I noticed prices have been going up a little so I’ve been ordering seamless and buying from places that have offers like 25-35% off. Go on the app and look at “trending offers”
I think they make "X" per hour + tips so that X + tips adds up to 15.
If it is not true, then why don’t you tell us then how this min wage law will work out for businesses then?
Some will adapt to them, some won’t. It’s hard to say at this point as there was a pretty steady number of closures in the years before this law was enacted and where the astronomically higher rent was usually cited. Since that is still being cited and that had been cited in the past and there are quite a few empty street level spaces, then let’s do some vacancy taxes so landlords might reconsider their gamble with massive rents.
You’re almost certainly not going to find support for repealing or lowering minimum wage.
Some will adapt to them, some won’t. It’s hard to say at this point as there was a pretty steady number of closures in the years before this law was enacted and where the astronomically higher rent was usually cited. Since that is still being cited and that had been cited in the past and there are quite a few empty street level spaces, then let’s do some vacancy taxes so landlords might reconsider their gamble with massive rents.
You’re almost certainly not going to find support for repealing or lowering minimum wage.
So basically it will make an already bad situation even worse. And as for some adapting and some won’t...that is really saying that there will be less jobs than there would have been if it weren’t for this law. In other words, it will kill businesses and hurt jobs. Great policy we’ve got here.
If it is not true, then why don’t you tell us then how this min wage law will work out for businesses then?
I go out dining a lot and if new higher prices contributes to people actually getting a livable wage than so be it. Restaurants that don't survive were probably on their last leg anyways and they probably weren't paying their workers a livable wage to begin with. Other than that it is too soon to start evaluating the effects of minimum wage increase especially in NYC when you have other factors like astronomical rent increases that have surpassed the median wage over the last few decades.
I go out dining a lot and if new higher prices contributes to people actually getting a livable wage than so be it. Restaurants that don't survive were probably on their last leg anyways and they probably weren't paying their workers a livable wage to begin with. Other than that it is too soon to start evaluating the effects of minimum wage increase especially in NYC when you have other factors like astronomical rent increases that have surpassed the median wage over the last few decades.
Of course there will always be restaurants that survive. In a city of 8 million and the money that those 8 million spends will always keep some restaurants afloat. That’s not the argument. The argument is that it will hurt some businesses (how many we won’t really know) that otherwise would have survived and the jobs those businesses provided.
I don’t know how you can argue that this is good for businesses and for jobs. And aren’t losing jobs ultimately hurting those workers as well?
So basically it will make an already bad situation even worse. And as for some adapting and some won’t...that is really saying that there will be less jobs than there would have been if it weren’t for this law. In other words, it will kill businesses and hurt jobs. Great policy we’ve got here.
No, how’d you get that? Most restauranteurs do not own their own property and if they did, they’d only pay the vacancy tax if they didn’t run the restaurant anymore which then doesn’t really make them restauranteurs anymore.
Also, I didn’t say I was in support of a minimum wage increase for everyone. All I said was what its effects are loosely and questioned how strong those effects are. I also said I don’t think it’s likely to go back down or be abolished.
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