Comments on: New min wage law clears CA Senate committee

By: Karl Bonner

Karl Bonner — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:49:31 +0000

In reply to Ulysses Uhaul. Nonsense. Capitalists have been screwing workers for over 35 years now, relative to their productivity.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:50:26 +0000

Raising the minimum wage is a GOOD thing because it eliminates the hidden banquet of taxpayer-funded subsidies that allow these corporations to pay their work force rock bottom wages.

Consider your average McDonald’s worker. Even at full time on minimum wage they are still eligible for a smorgasbord of benefits: WIC, SNAP, EITC, Medicare (Medical), and if they really do their homework they can get help with the rent, utilities, clothing, etc etc….ad infinitum.

I don’t know about you but I consider the current profitability of the McDonald’s Corporation, dishing out pink slime burgers, worthy of subsidization. Ditto the hospitality industry….

Bottom line is that a minimum wage that does not allow minimum standards of survival by the workforce is a hidden subsidy from the taxpayers to the fortune 500.

By: Billybs

Billybs — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:23:43 +0000

As long s business has a place to go without unions, more unions won t work. Oh I know, put the unions in charge of well…everything. One world government run by unions. Come on China, sign right here to turn the PRC over to SEIU.
Oops, now we have to get Bangladesh to sign up.
The unions worked in different economy without globalization.
Oh wait, unionize everything, put up trade barriers to all who don t go along.
That will work. May want to store up all the supplies of rare earth elements…don t want to do that. Damn, anti-union country who won t sell what we need. Invade them.
A bit more complicated than the standard moocher can understand.

By: Steve Mehlman

Steve Mehlman — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:09:52 +0000

http://www.anti-unionol.com

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:09:34 +0000

Raising the minimum wage is only a band aid over the wound for the middle class, but does not heal the wound for the middle class.

Government actions resulting in over regulations on businesses, over taxation and uncontrollable fees are contributing to the middle class becoming an endangered species as the inequality has deepened. The results are that consumers are paying for over regulations to businesses.

Extra costs resulting from government actions on businesses are a slight inconvenience to those making the big bucks such as those making the big bucks. Those behind the over regulations, over taxation, and uncontrollable “fees” on businesses are mostly the highly compensated, and most with sweet defined retirement benefit packages waiting for them upon retirement, i.e., those that CAN afford the higher costs that trickle down to all citizens for products and services.

Those that earn less than $20 per hour, which includes virtually all those in the food and hospitality industries, are the ones that can least afford higher costs for power, transportation fuels, and food. There is minimal impact to those that can afford the results of our relentless business unfriendly efforts, but little hope for those that barely exist at today’s cost of living.

How will the political environment explain to the middle and poor classes why over regulations and more costs being imposed on businesses is helping to improve the inequality of the middle class that has been growing rather than shrinking?

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:23:39 +0000

If your good you make money….Selling yourself to a union or fascist politicians is not personal freedom..OH WELL..

Who minds a three buck buttermilk donut or a fast food joint’s eight buck rusty salad!