TKC MUST READ!!! STILL NO LOVE FOR SO-CALLED 'FAIR WAGE' AMID FAILED KANSAS CITY FIGHT FOR 15!!!

Like it or not, our blog community is composed of some of the smartest and most well informed people in the metro.

Right now . . .

CHECK THIS EPIC FACT CHECK AGAINST KANSAS CITY'S FIGHT FOR $15 MINIMUM WAGE CITING BAD BIZ ACROSS THE NATION!!!

Here's a COMPREHENSIVE LIST that uses a great deal of data to dispel the arguments of local 'fair wage' fighters. Also, we're humbled at a generous nod from the author of this EPIC FACT CHECK.

Take a look:

It's hard to be humble

It's hard to be humble when your opponents are so vocal and so wrong. We won't rehash the last 18 months of minimum wage economic statistics and facts that we clearly demonstrated that an increase in the minimum wage would cause a decrease in employment among workers who needed the work the most.

We will, however, reiterate that we fully support low-to-no skilled laborers who must enter the workforce at some price level, lest they never gain the skills needed to rise above the minimum wage barrier. Our position is that these workers should be able to price their labor at ANY level THEY choose and not have some bureaucrat dictate what he believes the labor of someone he has never met is worth.

And so with that, we will merely state the results of the recent minimum wage hikes in some of our major cities. The following is for the leisure and hospitality sector (restaurants, hotels, etc.)

Washington DC -- after a measly increase in July of $1, to $10.50 an hour, employment ground to a halt. Their normal 2,000 annual job growth went to ZERO (yup, nada~)

Chicago - bumping their minimum wage $1.75 to $10 per hour. That caused their employment rate to cut itself in half to 1.1%. Oh... good luck with the addition of another 3-bucks scheduled over the next few years.

San Francisco & Oakland-- Nearly mimicking the Windy-City, employment slumped from 4.4% to 2.5%. And yes, they increased their minimum wage to $12.25 in the spring of last year and promise more job-cuts, I mean minimum wage increase (same thing), over the next several years.

Seattle-- No report would be complete without mention the Seattle area, the posterchild of socialist stupidity. They were at just under 5% (4.6%) in restaurant growth when their new minimum wage mandates hit workers squarely in the mouth. After the wage hike, the employment rate dropped to 1.8%, the worst level since 2009. Oh... if you think it was the economy of Washington state, think again. The state-wide employment for restaurant workers jumped to 6.3% everywhere else.

It's easy to parrot the arguments you heard from some leftist politician who already purchased your vote with his tripe. It's a little more difficult to argue with numbers that speak for themselves.

Tony's KC is the ONLY publication in the city metro to take the intelligent side of this argument and point out that workers are harmed with mandated wage increases. We don't pretend to have all the answers of how to help low-skilled workers join the workforce and become more financially productive. (Perhaps have a public school system that could teach math and reading past grade 5 would be a start.)

However, we clearly recognize and have warned numerous times, against a failed policy that only harms those it's intended to help.

The only winners of minimum wage increases are politicians, including our Mayor and Presidential hopeful Sanders, who gladly step on the unemployed bodies of voters they pretend to benefit.
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