Shocking, I tell you!
The Board of Supervisors commissioned the study by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. to look at the potential economic effect of gradually raising minimum pay to $15 an hour.
The city of Los Angeles earlier this month approved a plan that will increase the minimum wage within the city limits from $9 to $15 by 2020. County supervisors will vote on a similar plan on Tuesday.
A draft version of the report was released earlier this month, including results of a survey of 1,000 businesses around the county. The final report, released Friday night, added summary observations and included more a detailed breakdown of the survey results.
The economists concluded that as a result of the wage increase, “many prices will increase, including those that lower-income households commonly face; wages will rise for those in minimum wage jobs that remain employed; employment opportunities for those at the bottom of the skills ladder will be diminished” and “employment growth will slow.”
I wonder how many people have forgotten that the REAL minimum wage is $0/hr? And I further wonder how many people in Los Angeles who would be happy to take a job for $7 or $8 an hour?
Come to that, if people aren’t making enough take-home pay, how about cutting taxes to the point where they are making whatever these do-badders think is appropriate?
Getting the government involved in distorting any market created by supply and demand never ends well, whether it’s price control, wage freezes/minimum wage, rent control, rationing, whatever… It’s no more honest than a butcher with his thumb on the scale.
Fascism really pisses me off. They have to destroy the country in order to save it.
My whole concept of feel-good legislation has been shattered. I need to go lie down.
Where they messed up was thinking too small. Instead of gradually raising to $15, they shoulda immediately kicked it up to $50, then another $50 next year. Surely THAT would end poverty.
Actually, now that I think about it I’m making the same mistake! What would really be a game changer is forget about hourly wages altogether, and make it minimum employment. Say, $65,000 a year. Poverty would be erased forever!
Uh-oh. I think I messed up the space/time continuum.
You want definitive proof that ignorance is NOT bliss, look at a leftist. Pig- ignorant a unhappy that the world doesn’t conform to their delusions.
feets Zelda Gilroy has been sucking at the teat of “public service” for way too long enough.
The mayors conference was in Oakland last week. I think much of bad city legislation is caused by these get-togethers. All the big city mayors trying to impress each other. Minimum wage is one example. Electric street cars is another.
And the inflation/stagflation will just come back with a vengeance, as the price of the higher wage gets passed on to the consumer. And suddenly the “living wage” isn’t liveable anymore….the dupes who cheer this on can’t see more than one step ahead.
To paraphrase Kipling:
“And so the leftist progressives promised abundance for all
By robbing selected Peters to pay for collective Paul
And though we had more and more money
Less and Less that our money would buy
And the free market economists shook their heads and said
“if you don’t work you die.”
All the big city mayors trying to impress each other. Minimum wage is one example. Electric street cars is another.
The fetish they have for streetcars is something to behold. It is almost as stupid as their fetish for “traffic calming”.
Hey McGehee! I really think you need to throw us a post more often. Darleen has been heroic I think, but everyone uses guest bloggers regularly anymore. Your last post was a thing of beauty!
And others of you with posting privileges, please? I hate to see PW die…
Did you hear the one where the pope told a group of young people ‘you can’t manufacture weapons and call yourself a Christian’ ? Then added you can’t even invest in weapons manufacture without being hypocritical.
I’m finding this pope very unsettling.
And I’m not even Catholic.
Tell that to Beretta papa.
What does the Swiss guard use? Swiss Army knives with out blades?
OT: http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/22/seven-liberal-pieties-that-only-the-right-still-believes/
But when you want the really good Fascism, it’s worth paying a little extra to get the German variety: [a set of new billboard regulations in Berlin]
Damnit ‘feets, why are you time-travelling? Get back in the past where you belong!
I couldn’t keep coming up with material regularly enough to keep my own blog alive.
if Sheila Kuehl isn’t a tranny then what this means is she missed the tranny boat
and that bothers me a little
but it’s her own damn fault
And having high-quality threads unraveled by infantile cartoon characters does not appeal.
No, feets, it means she’s a dy…a les…a woman in comfortable shoes.
(If Robin Williams hadn’t killed himself last year, I think depression and frustration at American society’s shriveling sense of humor would have driven him to it sooner rather than later. God rest his soul.)
Some threads are just NSFW*
*Not Safe For Wit.
What’s killing PW is too much hamster and not enough armadillo.
Which is exactly the point – in the same way that Obamacare is designed to destroy private health insurance in order to make way for universal single-payer “healthcare”, minimum-wage laws are designed to fail in order to make way for some sort of “universal basic income” scheme.
Which is exactly the point – in the same way that Obamacare is designed to destroy private health insurance in order to make way for universal single-payer “healthcare”, minimum-wage laws are designed to fail in order to make way for some sort of “universal basic income” scheme.
With all the public assistance, don’t we effectively have that already?
Honestly, I see it as more of a con game for the prole rubes. Mandating higher wages, without bringing down the costs of other inputs for goods and services (raw materials, taxes, legal fees, etc.) is just an inflation 3-Card Monty con game for the suckers.
The people who cheer this on think they can mandate more wages be paid out, and they can’t ever realize that those costs get passed on to them as the end consumers.
Since this typically affects fast food workers, one wonders why they don’t think about what has happened to the cost of said fast food, in just a few short years.
Remember the Carl’s Jr. “Six Dollar Burger” promo–when it was introduced it was a high end sit-down restaurant burger at a fast food half price. It isn’t half the formerly $6 price anymore, is it. Now it is about $6.
Soon the extra value fast food meals, which a few years ago were $5-$6 and are now about $8-$9, will be $12-$14.
And then those who demand “a living wage” will say they need even more.
“Running to stand still”, as the U2 song goes. They demand more wage money, but they never do anything to lower the cost of the inputs other than labor.
Stagflation, here we come.
Come to think of it, mandating higher wages is also a clever “ghost” tax hike on the part of the Left.
Some taxes, like the property tax, are obvious, because they hit with a noticeable impact. Ditto for hiked sales taxes percentages and spiked user and registration fees. But a gradual spiraling cost mandate, imposed on private industry? Not so noticeable.
So the minimum wage mandate is a “ghost” tax increase. The average working stiff will believe government when it blames “big business” (which in reality is ALL commerce) when Commerce responds to the government created price spiral by raising prices in order to keep investment returns and purchasing power up to snuff. Wages rise, then prices rise to cover wages, and higher wages are demanded yet again to keep up with increased prices, and we all play a game of “leapfrog” that no one can win because there is no finish line.
“I couldn’t keep coming up with material regularly enough to keep my own blog alive.”
See, I think that’s why few blogs are individual efforts these days. A wider spectrum of perspectives appeals to a wider interest, and it’s easier on the contributors to have help.
Anyway, just a thought for y’alls consideration…
Oh, and Happyfeet? He’s just a fly at a picnic. Irritating and kinda gross, but nothing to get all bent out of shape over. Certainly nothing to let ruin the picnic. Just swat it and go get yourself some BBQ.
Prisoner’s dilemma. Somebody always responds to him and the thread unravels.
As for group blogging, there are considerations beyond just material when you may inadvertently step on someone else’s more substantive post.
I just don’t have that much patience.
Speaking of ‘feets and time travel, anybody recall the incident that sent xhim into xhis first rage?
Kevin Jennings is back!
Oh. Tiny phone is tiny.
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15118/
There’s a post for someone to expand. Many Leftists are content to accept an increase in LGBT suicides, because like abortion, suicides satisfy their inner Malthusian and resultant eugenics tendencies; end result being to keep this mudball safely controlled and harmonized. Just the way they want it.
i’d like to stay and taste my first champagne…
yes?
No.
Pro tip – when anyone gets breathless about “what the Pope said”, try and find out what he actually said.
Often that may be bad enough – but not nearly as bad as the click bait headlines and agenda-serving paraphrases.
Data indicate that kids are actually put at risk when schools encourage them to identify themselves as gay or transgender at an early age. For each year children delay labeling themselves as LGBT,
their suicide risk is reduced by 20 percent.
No Ideologue [be he Communist, Fascist, Libertarian] cares ultimately about the Individual. It’s all about The Plan, man, for Immanentizing The Eschaton.
I wonder if the $15 per hour idiots still have a fucking tip jar out.
The last time I had a restaurant job the minimum wage was 5.35. I was paid 2.00 and made the rest in tips. If I didn’t make it to 5.35 including my tips, the owner paid the difference. He had to. It only happened when the place was dead for a whole week, like during hurricane Gloria. I averaged about 7 per hour. When people realize that their servers are making 15 an hour they, like me, will be tipping less. The owner will be paying more out of pocket and there will be fewer servers, no busboys or bar backs and eventually no restaurant because service will suffer. Fast food will turn to self checkout and push button ordering.
If we are really lucky we’ll witness the return of the automat.
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