Seattle Minimum Wage Hike Fails

Seattle Minimum Wage Hike Fails

Seattle Minimum Wage Hike Fails

Full confession here: I love Seattle. I travel from my midwestern home to the Emerald City about twice every year mainly to visit my daughter, son-in-law, and little grandson, but I have come to love the casual, funky feel of the Pacific Northwest, liberal warts and all.

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Recently Seattle decided to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour after low wage workers agitated for months. Now, as with most liberal feel-good ideas, the consequences have come back to bite the backers of increased wages.

It seems that many of the workers want fewer work hours. Why? Well, with their higher wages they’re losing their food stamps and rent assistance.

No, I’m not kidding.

On the other side of the nation, New York City is set to raise the minimum wage for its fast food workers to $15 per hour over the next three years.

One fast food CEO has called out the lunacy of this sort of move. Dunkin Donuts CEO Nigel Travers appeared on CNN to demonstrate to the skeptical anchorette that yes, raising the minimum wage to these levels would lead to firings and excessive burdens on employers.

The class warriors on Twitter threw their little hissy fits, demonstrating that they know absolutely nothing about how the free market actually operates.

Right. Because it’s not fair that a 65-year-old CEO with a college degree and decades of experience in high-level business management should be paid a lot more than a teenager squirting jelly into a donut.

Guess which candidates are agitating for raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour? Why, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, of course.

Bernie Sanders, being the old socialist Power-to-the-People sort he is, has demanded that all employers in America pay their workers $15 per hour, no matter what. But what’s this? How much does Bernie pay his interns?

Why, he pays them only $12 per hour.

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Here’s a screenshot from Sanders’ website offering internships:

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Click to enlarge. H/t RightScoop.

And Hillary Clinton? While she supports the $15 minimum wage in NYC for fast food workers, her campaign CFO Steve Kornacki couldn’t say what Hillary thought the federal minimum wage should be.

What does Hillary pay her adult, full time, grassroots organizers?

She doesn’t pay them anything.

As one Democratic strategist told the British news source The Guardian, the Clinton campaign would “. . .hire people as interns and treat people as free labor who have already done the job before. It is a really terrible way to treat the most vulnerable people on the campaign staff and makes me question their leadership on everything else.”

So once again, the Democratic mantra is ‘do as we say, not as we do.’ But you know what we should tell Hill and Bernie? How about this suggestion from Donald Trump’s reality TV show, Celebrity Apprentice?

“You’re fired!”

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Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!

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  • Outcastgolfer says:

    Kim, liberal logic will now demand that the entitlement safety net must be raised. These poor people can’t be expected to “suffer” without their entitlements. They are entitled to la dolce vita … just like those corner office CEO’s. But heaven forbid they suffer the sacrifice and stress that goes with that job. The hazy fog of Mary Jane make this all logical.

  • Mike says:

    The liberals bleat about a “living wage”, but under the spot it tells interns they only get $12/hr, it tells them they are responsible for their own housing. Any idea just how expensive it is to live in the Nation’s capitol? It ain’t cheap. (Bernie is.)

  • Merle says:

    AHH yes – the Farmers Market. It was my favorite place in Seattle, followed closely by the underground city.

    Merle

  • ZZMike says:

    We could give the complainers what they want, and more: let them all quit or be laid off, so they won’t have to worry about being “overpaid”. Then everybody would be happy.

    Alternatively:
    The workers want fewer hours or less money – that’s fine.
    Employers would be fine with paying less.
    Both sides would come out ahead.

    But the Progressive Left said “no, you can’t do that”.

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