Author Topic: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money  (Read 7255 times)

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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2017, 12:35:37 PM »
Next you will suggest the government will determine what our pay will be and will handle that silly paycheck nonsense for us so neither we nor our employer will need to bother with it. 
Nah - the ultimate goal is that government will just collect from each according to his ability, and apportion to each according to his needs.

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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2017, 01:01:52 PM »
Now that's a job I would love, gulag inspector...

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« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2017, 01:29:38 PM »
And everyone with their own business, including side businesses, gets to log their hours with the IRS and gets a tax rebate to bring their take home earnings/profits up to 15 an hour, plus time and a half for anything over 40 hours a week.

Prosperity and living wages for all!

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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2017, 01:41:05 PM »
Others have said it better than I can:

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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2017, 10:56:05 PM »
They tried, just recently, to do the minimum wage super-lunacy in Saint Louis. Couldn't get enough votes on the board of alderman. I'm guessing it's probably the most reasonable decision that board has made in quite some time.
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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2017, 09:39:12 PM »
Well gee, here's a shocker:

Seattle's solution to the failed $15/hr wage is to create a new tax on high wage earners.

http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/07/10/raging-grannies-cheer-as-seattle-adds-high-earner-tax-to-15-minimum-wage-win-next-housing-justice/
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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2017, 10:36:13 PM »
^^^This will likely not pass Constitutional muster with our State Supreme Court: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-council-to-vote-today-on-income-tax-on-the-wealthy/
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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2017, 10:40:59 PM »
If it does pass muster, expect to see a rapid exodus of people and jobs.

Just ask France how it worked ...
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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #34 on: July 11, 2017, 03:42:31 AM »
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/07/06/seattle-fires-research-team-proved-minimum-wage-hike-hurt-low-wage-workers/

If your plan doesn't work, obviously the solution is to find people that will say it's working.

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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #35 on: July 11, 2017, 06:52:31 AM »
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/07/06/seattle-fires-research-team-proved-minimum-wage-hike-hurt-low-wage-workers/

If your plan doesn't work, obviously the solution is to find people that will say it's working.


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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #37 on: August 02, 2017, 02:54:18 PM »
Here's my shocked face.

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Re: $15/hr in Seattle = Less Money
« Reply #39 on: August 02, 2017, 04:45:14 PM »
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