New York OKs $15 minimum wage for fast-food workers

[TheGreatGatsby]

Govt. incentivizing businesses to replace humans with robots.....

Sad.

 

[Claudette]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

 

[Brain357]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

You realize other cities are doing the same thing and don't have your gloom and doom right?

 

[Claudette]

Guess we'll just have to wait and see if it turns to gloom and doom.

Hell. I would flip burgers for $15 an hour as it pays more than my current job.

If it weren't colder than a witch's tit my ass would be in North Dakota where the burger flippers make even more.

 

[Stephanie]

Do you realize how much it cost to rent a studio apartment in NYC?

Yes, it's expensive. If you can't afford it you should live somewhere else.

NYC keeps all the red-neck states from going bankrupt.

sure they do. you poor fools can barley stay afloat in your 100 sqf apartments getting the crap taxed out of you for the "privilege" of living in a cement jungle filled with rude animals ...they wouldn't want some snob like you in the red states anyway.

 

[charwin95]

Did any of you, including the OP, bother to read the article? $15 an hour will be phased in over 3 years. The minimum wage isn't suddenly jumping to $15 in NYC.

Agree. I posted several times. There is no such thing as from $9. minimum wage jump to $15. overnight but every time someone posted MW it's $15.

 

[charwin95]

15 bucks an hour for a hamburger flipper. you freaking bet. the schools don't even start you out at that pay where I live.

When you lose your job you can thank your government

Maybe it's time for you to get a job instead of depending on welfare. You can still resurrect your career as a waitress.

 

[chao$]

Do you realize how much it cost to rent a studio apartment in NYC?

Yes, it's expensive. If you can't afford it you should live somewhere else.

NYC keeps all the red-neck states from going bankrupt.

sure they do. you poor fools can barley stay afloat in your 100 sqf apartments getting the crap taxed out of you for the "privilege" of living in a cement jungle filled with rude animals ...they wouldn't want some snob like you in the red states anyway.

All the red states dependent on the federal government to stay buoyant need to give props to the good people of NYC for making it possible for you to live where you do.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

You realize other cities are doing the same thing and don't have your gloom and doom right?

You sure about that?

Seattle's $15 An Hour: Measure The Unemployment Effects And There They Are

REPORT: Seattle Restaurants Suffer Worse Job Loss Since The Great Recession

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

$15 is too high. That is indisputable. Logic jsays you DOUBLE the minimum wage and costs MUST rice.

 

[Mr Natural]

Go flip your burgers in a red state if you don't want 15 bucks an hour for your effort.

 

[Brain357]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

You realize other cities are doing the same thing and don't have your gloom and doom right?

You sure about that?

Seattle's $15 An Hour: Measure The Unemployment Effects And There They Are

REPORT: Seattle Restaurants Suffer Worse Job Loss Since The Great Recession

Yes.

Fox Attacks $15 Min Wage With Falsehoods About Seattle Jobs (Again)

 

[Brain357]

$15 is too high. That is indisputable. Logic jsays you DOUBLE the minimum wage and costs MUST rice.

I would think high enough to not be on welfare would be just about right.

 

[charwin95]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

You realize other cities are doing the same thing and don't have your gloom and doom right?

You sure about that?

Seattle's $15 An Hour: Measure The Unemployment Effects And There They Are

REPORT: Seattle Restaurants Suffer Worse Job Loss Since The Great Recession

Seattle just added 30 new restaurants and couple opened in last 5 days. More construction underway.
Unemployment July 2014 was 4.4%, July 2015 3.7%.
Daily Caller did not even bother to mention what restaurants that loses jobs or what restaurant that closed because of minimum wage. Cherry picking.

 

[charwin95]

The truth of the matter is people keep posting job loses and restaurant closes in Seattle...
SO FAR NONE....can produce a single establishment may it restaurants or mom/pop shop closes because of MW hike. Give me one lousy example. ANYBODY????

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

You realize other cities are doing the same thing and don't have your gloom and doom right?

You sure about that?

Seattle's $15 An Hour: Measure The Unemployment Effects And There They Are

REPORT: Seattle Restaurants Suffer Worse Job Loss Since The Great Recession

Yes.

Fox Attacks $15 Min Wage With Falsehoods About Seattle Jobs (Again)

What do my articles have to do with Fox News?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Go flip your burgers in a red state if you don't want 15 bucks an hour for your effort.

They may not have a choice since they won't be able to find a job anywhere flipping burgers for $15

 

[dblack]

NYC is one expensive place to live and if they pay someone $15 and hour to flip burgers you can bet prices will be going up.

No one will be eating out and there goes your $15 an hour job. Right down the shitter.

You realize other cities are doing the same thing and don't have your gloom and doom right?

And they won't see any doom and gloom. As usual, conservatives are barking up the wrong tree. I'm predicting something different. I'm betting that the cities implementing high minimum wages will look pretty good on paper, even after the higher minimums have settled in. Their median incomes will rise and poverty levels will go down. Unemployment might bump up for a bit, but it will level off. When you look at what these laws really do, it isn't hard to see why.

Minimum wage advocates run on the fantasy that government can make labor worth more by decree - that we can pass a law and force those greedy capitalists to pay more for labor than the going market value. But the market value isn't something that can be dictated by government. It's something we all determine via our individual value judgements. Instead, all these laws really do is make labor valued at beneath the minimum wage illegal. They tell low wage workers that if they can't find a job making the minimum, they can't work.

Despite the claims of conservatives, most people would rather work than live on welfare, so when faced with the dilemma forced on them by minimum wage laws, most low wage earners will leave - if they have somewhere to go where they can work. Some will stick around for a while and milk unemployment benefits, but when those run out, they'll leave too. What's happening with localized minimum wage laws is, essentially, legally enforced gentrification.

The key here, and the reason the isolated minimum wage hikes will "work", is that all they're really doing is chasing the poor out of town.

 

[Blackrook]

A law that unfairly targets fast food restaurants but not other types of restaurants is probably going to be ruled unconstitutional.

So liberals, don't do a victory lap just yet. This will be taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.