Headline one year from now:
Seattle Store Fronts Empty
Been to Seattle? It won't happen.
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Headline one year from now:
Seattle Store Fronts Empty
So right wingers are going to abandon Seattle because the burgers cost a dollar more? Better start this in solid Democrat states then.
for sure, try Detroit
Republicans want to reward ownership.
Democrats want to reward work.
That is the way it has always been.
wow'
Democrats want's to reward work huh?
well at least they won't JOB LOCKED when they lose their jobs because companies don't want to pay for someone $15 who didn't even graduate high school
The funny part is the starting wage in Seattle is usually around $15. My friend is a manager at a hotel downtown and she talks about how the front desk starts out at $16 an hour. While the same position at the same type of hotel here would be around $10.
So right wingers are going to abandon Seattle because the burgers cost a dollar more? Better start this in solid Democrat states then.
The funny part is the starting wage in Seattle is usually around $15. My friend is a manager at a hotel downtown and she talks about how the front desk starts out at $16 an hour. While the same position at the same type of hotel here would be around $10.
What hotel? I'd like to look it up.
The funny part is the starting wage in Seattle is usually around $15. My friend is a manager at a hotel downtown and she talks about how the front desk starts out at $16 an hour. While the same position at the same type of hotel here would be around $10.
What hotel? I'd like to look it up.
The funny part is the starting wage in Seattle is usually around $15. My friend is a manager at a hotel downtown and she talks about how the front desk starts out at $16 an hour. While the same position at the same type of hotel here would be around $10.
What hotel? I'd like to look it up.
That's what I thought. How much do you pay your employees?
Do you have any employees? Next....
Starbucks, a democratically owned company based in Seattle only paid their head barista 9 dollars an hour and supervisors only made 12 dollars an hour.
And this is for a 5 dollar cup of coffee.
Hmmm seems democrats don't pay very well in the real world.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Starbucks-Hourly-Pay-E2202.htm
Perfect...send all the wortless occutards there
Why do conservatives always say that lowering taxes will put more money in people's pockets and thus stimulate the economy,
Because conservatives understand economics and incentives.
but raising the minimum wage won't?
See above.
What's the difference? If a tax cut gave me an extra hundred dollars a week, or a wage increase gave me an extra hundred dollars a week...
One gets drafted out of the local economy and wasted on levels only measurable by societies running a ground and dying off. The other allows money to stay local and be re-invested in ways that grow the local economy.
Tax cuts mean money stays where it is and is mostly invested locally...
No tax cut means that money is taken away, far away.
No tax cuts and forcing employers to pay a lot more means money is taken from the local economy and businesses growth is stifled.
I have already talked to my business partner and if a 15$ min wadge was forced on us in our area we would look at dropping half our staff ASAP and cover the hours ourselves. Not that we want to do this, in fact we try very hard to keep people on that we should have let go but times are tuff.
Martina Phelps says the Seattle City Council's historic vote Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour could change her life.
Phelps, 22, earns $9.47 per hour working for a McDonald's restaurant near downtown. She wants to move out of her mother's South Seattle home, and she wants to go back to school. She says those things could happen now that the city will have the nation's highest minimum wage.
"It's hard right now," she told USA TODAY hours before the midafternoon vote. "I have been trying to save up for school, but I just can't do it. This would mean a lot."
The council unanimously approved the measure before a packed house.
The plan, which includes a lower training wage aimed at teenagers, will phase in the higher, local minimum over three to seven years, depending on the size of the business and benefits they provide employees. Next April 1, when the plan takes effect, every worker will get at least a $1-an-hour raise.
Seattle raises minimum wage to $15 an hour