Take a look at how local politicos have FAILED to properly inform people of how the legislative process works in Missouri and thereby set up KCMO to spend HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS on an election that could be ruled invalid: Timeline: Straightening Out Kansas City's Confusing Minimum Wage Debate
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More of King James slamming shit down your throats with no reason other than to make him look good in his eyes only.
ReplyDeleteThis is no surprise, the city attorney has been saying it since the topic was first discussed. He said it was against state law, but the Council did it anyways to appease a vocal constituency group.
ReplyDeleteWhat this group fails to accomplish is showing the type of work performed for minimum wage is worth more than they are being paid. The concept of fast food for example, was an affordable convenience staffed with teenagers and an adult manager who were part-time and often temporary employees. Retail had a similar origin and business model. Never in that model was the intent for this to be a job that supported a family. Instead of trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear, let's stop creating the need for people to try to raise a family bagging hamburgers and fries. One way might be to make it a little harder for U.S. companies to take manufacturing to countries that underpay people who actually do work that should command higher pay and impact people who need those jobs here. The minimum wage increase to $15 will only cost jobs not help anyone or solve the core problem.
ReplyDeleteA part time job is just that..a part time job. Forcing companies to pay 15.00 an hour will mean fewer jobs all around, and small stores closing because of an inability to pay workers. My daughter has a PT job while in college. She makes 8.00 an hour and works about 15 hours a week. This is her spending money..it is not intended to be lived on. If that same store was forced to pay 15.00 an hour, they would close. No jobs for the 8 people who work there.
ReplyDeleteHow in the fuck can you justify paying morons $13.00 an hour. If they want to rape the country just file a fake disability claim like Byron and the other uneducated deadbeat liberals.
ReplyDeleteSTFU & get back to work
ReplyDeleteEconomic principles have no place in this argument, it's all about hysteria, sound bites, and pandering to the lowest common denominator...
ReplyDelete1. When labor cost rise, margins decrease.
2. When margins decrease, business responds by reducing internal costs or increasing prices.
3. Reducing internal costs will be focused on the obvious contributor to the rise (i.e. if labor is more expensive per unit, less units will be consumed).
4. Increasing prices most heavily affect those with the lowest incomes, as a larger portion of their income is used for the consumption of goods.
For those that are a little "slow", the above means that the recent push for unjustifiable minimum wage increases will negatively affect those that they are designed to help. Real wage won't increase (due to likely labor cuts), but costs will (due to likely price increases).
Creating jobs takes more work than going war and fucking over veterans
ReplyDeleteHey Byron... You didn't thank us workers for the ATM blast you received today. Ungrateful fuck. And when is that open house?
ReplyDeleteImagine what might be accomplished if all these folks spent some of their marching and demanding time going to community college and tech school and developing more to offer in the labor market.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see people lied to and led around by the usual suspects who make very good livings off pandering and empty promises.
Next demand: FREE four years of college.
In fact, FREE everything!
In the end the city will either choke the life out of businesses or a burger is going to cost $12.00. The end the small guys will either go broke or move outside the city limits and take their tax revenue with them. The biggest problem will be that future business will be looking at KC from a negative perspective and will simply locate elsewhere. I think KC has completely over valued its own worth as a revenue base for business forced to overpay employees. This ain't rocket science folks.
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