Guest shiloh357 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 49 minutes ago, tigger398 said: I also heard when you raise wages, you raise prices on things. So back to where we started from. Yes, the raise in wages, means you have to offset the cost and that comes from raising prices and or cutting hours or laying off help. Companies have to maintain a particular profit margin to stay in business. You cannot break even; there must always be a profit. The profit margin is non-negotiable and many liberals just don't understand the matrix of economics. Which is why they don't understand the futility of raising min. wage to $15 an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted March 24, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 185 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,224 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,647 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted March 24, 2018 Over 15 years ago someone called me trying to raise the wages of people who wash dishes in cafes to $15/ an hour. I said that I only made $12/ an hour and my job required 2 years of college minimum. So to keep up they would have to raise me to $20. Everyone else would be raise commensurably which would cause run away inflation. Goods would have to cost more to cover the raise in wages. So Seattle has now raised wages to that level for food service workers and they want to impose it on the rest of the state. This will also put small independent businesses out of business. The people pushing this stuff are members of the socialist party. Free enterprise creates self respect and ambition to work hard. Communist countries often have rampant alcoholism due to the lack of self respect their system created. I know Russian immigrants who have 20 kids to get more money from the government. They quit their jobs to go on welfare here, hoping to get more money. When it didn't happen and they didn't get rich here with all their kids, they went back to Russia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger398 Posted March 24, 2018 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 562 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2,074 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 648 Days Won: 2 Joined: 11/01/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/31/1966 Share Posted March 24, 2018 11 minutes ago, Willa said: Over 15 years ago someone called me trying to raise the wages of people who wash dishes in cafes to $15/ an hour. I said that I only made $12/ an hour and my job required 2 years of college minimum. So to keep up they would have to raise me to $20. Everyone else would be raise commensurably which would cause run away inflation. Goods would have to cost more to cover the raise in wages. So Seattle has now raised wages to that level for food service workers and they want to impose it on the rest of the state. This will also put small independent businesses out of business. The people pushing this stuff are members of the socialist party. Free enterprise creates self respect and ambition to work hard. Communist countries often have rampant alcoholism due to the lack of self respect their system created. I know Russian immigrants who have 20 kids to get more money from the government. They quit their jobs to go on welfare here, hoping to get more money. When it didn't happen and they didn't get rich here with all their kids, they went back to Russia. Well isn't that one of the biggest problem of why were broke, because of illegals coming in and getting free stuff. Isn't that a big problem now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted March 24, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 185 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,224 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,647 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted March 24, 2018 8 minutes ago, tigger398 said: Well isn't that one of the biggest problem of why were broke, because of illegals coming in and getting free stuff. Isn't that a big problem now. The people I spoke of immigrated legally but had other Russians bring some of their kids in. And yes it is a problem that some illegal immigrants come here for medical help and other benefits for the poor. Many desperate people that get free help lose their dignity because they can't repay it and end up hating us instead of being grateful. Most of the illegal people are very hard working and loving parents who work several minimum paying jobs to provide. These should have some path for legal status. The criminals who come in give them a bad name, and are the ones we are most concerned about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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