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Here is the number one priority of our Senator from Puna:
Sen. Russell
Ruderman said his No.
1 priority of the session
is raising the minimum
wage to $15 an hour.
The state’s minimum
wage reached
$10.10 on Jan. 1, but
he said it still doesn’t
approach a living wage.
Maybe he should read the latest news :
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/0...rease.html
Snip :
The CEO of fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box said “it just makes sense” to replace cashiers with robots due to the minimum wage increase in California.
"As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense" to swap cashiers with kiosks where customers can order their food themselves, CEO Leonard Comma said Tuesday at the ICR Conference in Orlando, Fla., Business Insider reported.
And more here :
http://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-w...ses-2017-3
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Where were the loss of profits related directly to when the minimum wage was raised each time in the past? There were none.
Raising the minimum wage would seemingly affect Rudderman's business pretty hard according to the claims being made by "Jack" himself, since Ruderman has around 200 employees I have heard.
Ruderman is also the only legislator to have a business with actual employees. Not to mention that most of Jack's customers are stoners (based on the targeting of their advertising), I wish them luck with the robots and kiosks, especially with 80-90% of the business of fast food places come from the drive-thru.
Let them bring in the automated systems, I for one am quite OK with not having to subsidize the labor costs of corporations making record profits while their employees qualify for welfare due to not being paid a living wage. Especially the fast food industry.
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"it just makes sense" to replace cashiers with robots
A $35000 robot is cheaper than $15/hour minimum wage.
quite OK with not having to subsidize the labor costs of corporations
Get ready to subsidize the newly unemployed...
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Ahhh well, perfectly explains why a Big Mac in the better developed countries are in same range of the US, and yet their minimum wages are 20-50% higher than ours.
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"I for one am quite OK with not having to subsidize the labor costs of corporations making record profits while their employees..."
Many of Rudderman's customers are supporting his profits through the EBT program. Unless you don't pay taxes, you are already subsidizing his labor costs. If he wants to raise the minimum wages of his employees he can already do that. The mom-and-pop stores who don't sell EBT subsidized products don't have a welfare system keeping them afloat. They pay income taxes that go into HIS pockets.
"Where were the loss of profits related directly to when the minimum wage was raised each time in the past? There were none."
Profits? Maybe not. Jobs? Yes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/busin...-wage.html
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/seattl...ized-data/
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?t...u-thought/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
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Jobs are not necessarily lost when the minimum wage rises.
Go to Google.
Type in: minimum wage unemployment correlation
You will find arguments on both sides of the issue, because all you have to do is pick a time frame that proves your point. When minimum wage is increased, the unemployment will sometimes go up, and just as often, down.
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Let them bring in the automated systems, I for one am quite OK with not having to subsidize the labor costs of corporations making record profits while their employees qualify for welfare due to not being paid a living wage. Especially the fast food industry.
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Why are people working in the fast food industry trying to raise a family in the first place? Shouldn't that job be for new to the workforce folks, people in college, etc? If you are still in fast food (and not in management) after more than about 2-3 years, maybe you aren't qualified to do anything else? In which case, why do you deserve $15+ an hour?
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You obviously grew up in the era when fast food and other minimum wage jobs were stepping stones to better paying skilled work. So did I.
But my skilled job was sent overseas, to nations that don’t have those pesky labor or environmental laws and get the work done for a fraction of what it cost domestically.
This has happened in almost every sector of skilled work, leaving only minimum wage jobs left.
I shudder to think what young people today face for their working careers. Although I did hear that soon there will great, fantastic jobs in beautiful clean coal.
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If you are working a low wage job, you should focus on bettering yourself before you skip right to the family part. In that situation, give yourself a goal.
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Agree completely. I’m just pointing out that there are less and less of those kinds of jobs out there, no matter how much you “better yourself“.
Also, many people were forced into those jobs due to the circumstances I’ve pointed out. Not much of a market for 50 year old workers with a skill lost to overseas markets. I was lucky. I qualified for training (that there is no way I could have afforded) and was able to get a job making a little more than half what I was making before, but more than minimum.
Some people, through lack of opportunity, education or IQ will never be able to rise above minimum wage jobs. Yet they show up every day, work hard and do a good job. Why shouldn’t they make enough money to live on their own and have enough money to pay bills and perhaps have a little left over to save or have some fun once in a while? Even a single person has a hard time doing that on minimum wage.
