Sonny Clark
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- Dec 12, 2014
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A business knows when its pricing itself out of business. Wages are basically determined by what workers are willing to work for. Employers know what the market can stand and what it can't stand.Again, either pay them, or close the doors. What are the other choices? You can't force workers to stay if they don't want to. And, you can't change laws by poor-mouthing. Either pay them, or hire illegal immigrants, or close the doors, very simple.Sure, and put ALL your employees out of work. What do they matter when we're trying to make a political point?Just business 101. Labor is a big cost of doing business. If you don't want to pay your workers a living wage, then close the doors and do something else with your life. Well, business owners can always hire cheap illegal immigrant labor. They'll work for $20.00 a day, which is twice what they earned in their home country. Either pay workers a living wage, or hire illegal immigrant labor, a very simple choice. Or, just close the doors and retire with all the money cheap labor enabled you to make over the years.Here are more people being enlightened with basic economics.....
Seattle Minimum Wage Kills Jobs Hurts Students PJ Tatler
Students at the University of Washington in Tacoma are getting an object lesson in the value of a dollar. As economic dominoes fall in the wake of a municipal minimum wage hike to $15 per hour in Seattle, university students find themselves digging deeper into their pockets to cover higher prices resulting from the mandate.
Elsewhere, small-business employees initially thrilled by the “raise” granted them by the city have since learned that they’ll be losing their jobs later this year. Red Alert Politics reports:
[Z Pizza] owner Ritu Shah Burnham said she just can’t afford the city’s mandated wage hikes.
“I’ve let one person go since April 1, I’ve cut hours since April 1, I’ve taken them myself because I don’t pay myself,” she told Q13. “I’ve also raised my prices a little bit, there’s no other way to do it.”
Sure, your right, when its no longer profitable to be in business there will be no businesses, hey, but it will be fair. as long as it seems fair. Of course, big chain restaurants might survive better, of couse they will give you less with cheaper ingredients, and who needs those mom and pops around anyway. why not raise minimum wage to $20 ? who is to say what is the proper wage ?
it sure isnt for the market place to decide.