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“Businesses depend on customers who make enough to buy what they are selling, from food to car repairs. Minimum wage increases will go right back into local economies, helping workers and businesses." It also creates demand. Without demand, no small biz period. Since the min wage hasn't tracked inflation in a decade, how can anyone on minimum wage afford to buy things at the current prices? THAT, is what will kill small businesses, not $15/hr. wage.
No high schooler living w/ their parents should be making $15/hr
Why not? They can actually start meaningful savings for college. Taxpayers won’t have to entertain a bailout of $50k per student. An hour of labor is an hour of labor regardless of who is performing it. $7.25 minimum wage is a joke and the burden falls on taxpayers, not the employers, to make up for it with food stamps, subsidies, student debt relief, etc. Determined college students can spend more time earning a decent wage than partying if they want to be debt free. Those that don’t want to work can carry the debt they incurred.
Supplies & Goods are already outrageous with the “Pandemic”. Pass the $15 wage and the next forum discussion on here will be “Why did food & supplies go up so much”.
Really? Cite your source, because that seems super anecdotal and contrary to what I've been reading in forums and social media threads.
Cash tips disappeared when credit and debit cards became pervasive. The idea that people are throwing paper currency on the table on the way out is absurd. Really, can you cite your sources? Cash tips are alive and well in ManhattanAnd tips should be eliminated, they're a relic of the past once used as signaling for the wealthy. Imagine a world where a professional server is compensated fairly for their services and don't need to perform stupid human tricks to earn an extra $5. What should a professional server earn? I’ve known a few waiters and waitresses errrr professional servers earning over $1000/week in tips. That was 25 years ago btw.
Your grasp of economics is stunning. Or, rather, your lack of a grasp on economics is stunning. You're assuming that the current minimum wage is fair and makes sense, which it doesn't. What should 16 year old Johnny Mopstick earn an hour at the local piggly wiggly???Where in the marketplace have prices remained stagnant for more than a decade (trick question, they haven't)?
The only thing more stunning than your lack of understanding about economics is your degree of prejudice; "Jose"? Really? Person also mentions the name Bill. Uhhh and why is Jose racist? It’s origin is from Spain after all. I think it’s you who is being presumptuously racist
Someone who hasn't gotten a raise in more than a decade, that's who. Are stores and restaurants charging the same prices for their goods and services for more than a decade? so professional servers make the same money as 10 years ago??? No when tipping 20-25% of the tab it is clearly more than 10 years past as the cost of goods has risen
I shop at Target all the time where they've been paying their staff $15 for quite a while already. And guess what, the lines move faster there than in any grocery store I use where the minimum wage still prevails. People who are paid a farer wage tend to be happier, and happier people perform better in their jobs.
lol negative. It’s not that they are happier. It is because $15/hour+ gets you a better worker thins out what some would call poor functioning workers. IE: Walmart. No offense to Walmart workers but Walmart seems to be very generous hiring people who may not be able to find work elsewhere.
Just sayin’
lol negative. It’s not that they are happier. It is because $15/hour+ gets you a better worker thins out what some would call poor functioning workers. IE: Walmart. No offense to Walmart workers but Walmart seems to be very generous hiring people who may not be able to find work elsewhere.
Just sayin’
I’m patiently(not) waiting for umber prices to go down.
I got a house to remodel.
When was the last time lumber or building material prices decreased? When gas went to $4+ a gallon they increased everything by 15%. When gas went down material stayed the same.
When was the last time lumber or building material prices decreased? When gas went to $4+ a gallon they increased everything by 15%. When gas went down material stayed the same.
Still, it’s been bananas going on almost a year now.
Almost $40 for plywood and $8 for a 2x6?
That’s cray-cray.
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