Liberals subscribe to magical thinking, believing that free college tuition and free health care to illegals will somehow end up a net win for the public. But reality often intrudes on this magical thinking like a big pimple on the end of your nose, and it is painful and unsightly. In this case, the laws of economics are intruding into the magical thinking of liberal politicians in San Francisco (as if there were any other kind there), and it is a growing problem.
San Francisco has declared that the minimum wage in the city, now being replicated in several other fact-challenged cities, will rise to $15 by 2018, and polls there predict happy, better-paid workers who will finally have a “living wage.” They have also insisted that this will not increase inflation and that it will be a boon to the minimum wage worker. That is a lie. And the impact is just now showing up as the first mandated rise from $10.74 to $12.25 is being implemented by certain retailers.
See who is raising prices in San Francisco, page 2:
If a minimum wage law is all that great, why stop at $15 an hour? Why not just make it $1000 an hour. That would even be greater wouldn’t it?
Only natural that businesses would jump at the chance to raise prices. Maybe it needs to be changed.
What about businesses that cant raise there prices.
If you oay 40 dollars for some land scape company to cut your grass.
Would you still use them if it webt to 80
I believe businesses hate to raise prices , but the money has to come from somewhere .
Idiots mandating price increases that have absolutely no economic sense at all!!
I’ve often wondered what happens with all the more skilled workers already making 15 an hour. Do you have to jump everyone up all the way up the line. If you don’t you know what will happen
Just hire the Republican kids they love to work for nothing
Learn trade better than cooking fries would help!
Dream on!
Oh yeah why would they ever work