CrakHoBarbie
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Since I've been here about a week, I'm fairly sure where y'all here stand on the issue. Anybody willing to share their thoughts on the matter?
We haven't had a min-wage hike since 2009. So we're making up for lost time. Keep in mind that that $15.00 increase wouldn't even be enacted for a few years.All I know about this is just local news stuff. Many of the restaurants around here are reporting that although they can open up to a fuller capacity, they can't get servers, etc. to come back to work, so they're very short staffed and just can't handle the fuller capacity. Many of the former restaurant workers are getting so much help from the government right now that they just don't want to come back to work right now...no incentive.
I was all for the help from the gov when so many restaurant workers lost their jobs due to the covid shut-downs. Maybe now the gov needs to re-think and pull back some of the help so that people will want to come back to work.
$15 min wage seems to be excessive to me.
Min-wage in Texas is $7.25hr. why would anyone who's receiving pandemic rate unemployment, want to go back to work for less money than their making on unemployment? Because of the rediculously low Texas min-wage, many simply cannot afford to go back to work.Restaurants in Texas struggle to restore full capacity | Fox News Video
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On the flip side, how many nurses aides can they keep and pay them $15 minimum wage.I think a lot of my nurses aides would be willing to work more, if they made 15 minimum.
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That's why I said this, "Maybe now the gov needs to re-think and pull back some of the help so that people will want to come back to work."Min-wage in Texas is $7.25hr. why would anyone who's receiving pandemic rate unemployment, want to go back to work for less money than their making on unemployment? Because of the rediculously low Texas min-wage, many simply cannot afford to go back to work.
We haven't had a min-wage hike since 2009. So we're making up for lost time. Keep in mind that that $15.00 increase wouldn't even be enacted for a few years.
Probably most of them.On the flip side, how many nurses aides can they keep and pay them $15 minimum wage.
As I clearly stated, " we haven't had an increase in min-wage since 2009". So this increase has been a long time coming. Also, pandemic unemployment rates will end on Sept. 4th of this year.On the flip side, how many nurses aides can they keep and pay them $15 minimum wage.
That's why I said this, "Maybe now the gov needs to re-think and pull back some of the help so that people will want to come back to work."
They must have been making a pretty good living before.
Biden isn't know for doing anything gradual. He's like gung-ho or nothing. I would agree with a very gradual increase. I just don't trust him to do that.
what kind of business do you own?Wow...... Well sure.... It would be great if we could go back in time and stop former Republican President Richard M. Nixon from taking us off the gold standard. That sure would be swell and I certainly would agree with that wholeheartedly. ......but...... Unfortunately, we don't have the technology to go back and stop Dick from ruining our economy. ... What we certainly do not need is more folks who think like you who condone keeping wages stagnant whilst profits steadily increase. If your business model can't support a wage increase to $15.00 per hr, then you don't belong in business.
I'm retired. I was in the Automotive industry.what kind of business do you own?
Wow...... Well sure.... It would be great if we could go back in time and stop former Republican President Richard M. Nixon from taking us off the gold standard. That sure would be swell and I certainly would agree with that wholeheartedly. ......but...... Unfortunately, we don't have the technology to go back and stop Dick from ruining our economy. ... What we certainly do not need is more folks who think like you who condone keeping wages stagnant whilst profits steadily increase. If your business model can't support a wage increase to $15.00 per hr, then you don't belong in businessWe don’t need to raise them minimum wage. We need to stop de-valuing the buying power of the US Dollar.
Inflation is what is killing working families.
People need to understand that politicians have just set loose inflation and the politicians are now pushing for higher wages to cover over the sins of their monetary policy.
Bezos and big national companies are loving all this and several have raised their wages because they know it will drive small/local businesses out of business! No competition and they make more profits. People need to wake up. Raising minimum wages only gives politicians cover to shield them from the bad policies they enacted.
So you don't really do anything, but give business advice without any actual experience yourself.I'm retired. I was in the Automotive industry.
Amazon couldn’t afford 7.50/hr when it was started.If your business model can't support a wage increase to $15.00 per hr, then you don't belong in business
I ran my own shop for 30 years. But truthfully, what have you brought to the table but radical alt-right zealot conspiracy jibberish.So you don't really do anything, but give business advice without any actual experience yourself.
Slower growth builds character. If your business model, from startup to finish, doesn't generate enough income to pay your employees a reasonable wage, then you chose the wrong business model. That's not my fault. It's not any other taxpayers fault. It's your fault. Why should I, or any other taxpayers, have to supplement your employees because you chose a poor business model? Grow up.Amazon couldn’t afford 7.50/hr when it was started.
And you probably paid your employees via flat rate.I'm retired. I was in the Automotive industry.
If you don't have anything pertenant to add to the conversation, why are you here?And you probably paid your employees via flat rate.
I do it all the time after reading you guys posts. Y'all are a hoot.
You are on some kind of crack for sure, you are a bat shit crazy progressive that is only tolerant to your own views and are the rudest condescending POS I have encountered in a while. You should write in a diary then the only opinion for you to read would be your own.I ran my own shop for 30 years. But truthfully, what have you brought to the table but radical alt-right zealot conspiracy jibberish.
Wow. You really get worked up over the minimum wage topic, huh? Thank you for your honest appraisal. It means so much coming from someone who's Jesus thinks we had airports during the Revolutionary War.You are on some kind of crack for sure, you are a bat shit crazy progressive that is only tolerant to your own views and are the rudest condescending POS I have encountered in a while. You should write in a diary then the only opinion for you to read would be your own.
Hmmm.. dunno @Melensdad . It's not like inflation is particularly high at the moment ?.... Inflation is what is killing working families.
I get what you are saying but the data is wrong.Hmmm.. dunno @Melensdad . It's not like inflation is particularly high at the moment ?
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In terms of inflation; I would have thought Bidens multi-trillion dollar cash injection into the economy would have a MUCH bigger inflationary effect than a minimum-wage hike ?
When the minimum-wage came in in the UK, lots of people said it would cause mass unemployment, a surge in inflation, and the destruction of the Empire. Curiously.. life went on.
We can thank dear Dick for that. But if the MW doesn't at least keep up with inflation, hyperinflation won't be our only problem. I think the U.S. has kept things together quite well as far as Inflation is concerned. But that may be because of the Petro dollar and our currency being the default World currency. But as dollar hegemony ends, things could go from bad to worse very quickly.I get what you are saying but the data is wrong.
We are, by the accounts of most economists, entering a period of very high inflation. But even modest inflation, year-over-year, will kill the value of any fiat currency and the US dollar is now such a currency. We never should have decoupled the dollar from gold.
I'm probably missing it but why will brining back manufacturing jobs cost. Companies are making their goods in some other country. Not paying taxes here or wages here. if they come back to US they will once again pay a share of employee taxes, unemployment and social security. Depending on location they might be given a tax break for a few years but overall it would be a net gain to our country. What am I missing?If our economy cannot handle a minimum wage hike, as has been expressed here by a number of posters..... How in God's name are we to absorb the financial burden of bringing manufacturing back, which is going to cost a hell of a lot more than a min-wage bump. Can one of you lucid conservative please explain that to poor little progressive me.