Tag: Minimum Wage

Vermont’s Minimum Wage Set to Break 14$/Hour

December 17, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Vermont has a law that jacks the minimum wage up every year. Either 5% or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower, which makes you think the Dems running the place (for the most part) would want a bit more honesty when it comes to reporting inflation, and that’s not happening (maybe Trumps DOL will … Read more

Social Justice Failure: Workers AREN’T Equal

July 15, 2024July 14, 2024

by Skip

This is one of the basic economic ideas of the Left: reparations and retribution. And they never, EVER care about the results of their policies.

Social Justice Failure: Workers AREN’T Equal

July 15, 2024July 14, 2024

by Skip

This is one of the basic economic ideas of the Left: reparations and retribution. And they never, EVER care about the results of their policies.

Gov Nuisance and The Job Killers – Wage Hike Erases at Least 10,000 Entry Level Positions

June 12, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it hundreds of times: When the government interferes in the marketplace, bad things happen. Minimum wage mandates are not the least of these worries, but meddlers will meddle and, in the face of facts, still think they know better.

Uber and Lyft Promise to Leave after Democrat City Council Meddles With Wages

April 14, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Political meddlers like to mess with everything, including ride-share companies. Early on, it was to protect cab companies that exercised political power to retain their cartel. Later, when and where that didn’t work, the busybodies put their dirty fingers in the wage pie. You don’t pay your drivers enough. We’re making you pay them more.

Leading the Nation in Making People Jobless and Homeless

April 13, 2024

by Steve Earle

Democrats reportedly are celebrating after passing their $20. hr min wage for many businesses. Yup, a victory for labor rights, they say, only there is a cost. As predicted, fast food chains are scrambling to adjust. Layoffs of full-time employment, cutting hours, some even closing up. Topping this off, prices are rising as we knew they would.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (2/22/24)?

February 23, 2024February 23, 2024

by Judy Aron

We learned that we were able to get through reconsideration of HB154 (reconsideration failed), 44 regular calendar bills and 1 bill pulled off consent, between 9 am and 5:30 pm, with an hour for lunch (thankfully provided by the NH Nurses Association). Everyone was prepared to stay much longer into the evening, but speeches were relatively short, and we had a nice amount of voice votes on bills, too!

Sanders’ Minimum Wage Law Would Cost 700,000 Jobs

December 26, 2023

by Op-Ed

A proposed national minimum wage hike to $17 per hour by 2029 would come at an estimated cost of 700,000 American jobs, according to the nation’s Congressional Budget Office.

California Helps McDonald’s Wipe Out Its Competition

November 6, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

In the name of equity or some other progressive god, the State of California embarked on a pilgrimage to the minimum wage holy land. A search for a price-point on an hour of labor most likely to accumulate Democrat votes without any regard for the cost to voters.

Where is John Galt?

September 17, 2023

by Ian Underwood

There’s a new fast food law in California. It raises the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 per hour.

Not for employees of other businesses. Just for those at fast food restaurants.

And not even all fast food restaurants. Just some of them.

Proving Once Again That a Minimum Wage Costs Jobs

May 29, 2023

by Skip

The minimum wage costs jobs, especially entry-level positions that help teach the young and unskilled about working for a living, having pocket money, an income, basic personal budgets, spending, and even paying taxes.

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When Faced with Higher Wages, Poor People Suffer the Most

February 4, 2023

by Don

If Jay Newton is right, why are many workers poor after each minimum wage increase? Why, after about 24 minimum wage increases over 70 years, haven’t we achieved economic nirvana where everyone’s rich and no one’s poor? Minimum wage laws aren’t a panacea; they’re attractive-sounding political programs designed to get votes. A higher minimum wage … Read more

On January 1st, 2023 Vermont Will Legislate Even More Jobs Out of Existence

November 17, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

Good news for New Hampshire. Vermont’s next mandatory minimum wage hike is set to go off on January 1st, 2023. That means fewer jobs and job creators across the river, a few of whom will consider jumping the border to set up shop in New Hampshire.

The NH Senate Sees Donna Soucy’s Shadow So, Another Year without Government Meddling in the Minimum Wage

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022

by Skip

Once again, NH Democrats believe that Government has the “wisdom” to determine the economic worth of every wage earner in the State.

Just in Time to Make Things Cost More…Vermont Hikes Minimum Wage.

November 17, 2022January 3, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

The hubris is impressive. Democrats think they know what an hour of labor is worth in every job but simultaneously make any value they assign to it worthless with their irresponsible economic meddling.

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“Maximum Facts About the Minimum Wage”

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

by Skip

I’m against a Government-mandated minimum wage. The agreement between two people about the remuneration for one’s talents and time and that of the person paying that remuneration should remain between those two people.

Notable Quote – Minimum Wage Laws are Raaacist!

August 3, 2021

by Skip

Prof Sowell points out yet again the same phrase that Conservatives bring out over and over – Progressives believe in good intentions but care less about actual results.

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Josiah Bartlett: “Does Anyone in New Hampshire Make the $7.25 an Hour Minimum Wage?”

May 24, 2021

by Op-Ed

Officially, New Hampshire’s minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Finding someone who actually earns that, though, could be harder than finding a vegan in a Brazilian steakhouse on Flank Steak Friday. “You wont’ find it,” Mike Somers, president of the New Hampshire Restaurant and Lodging Association, said.

Notable Quote – Minimum Wage was born out of Racism

April 30, 2021

by Skip

The last year in which black unemployment was lower than white unemployment – 1930 – was also the last year in which there was no federal minimum wage law. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was openly advocated by some members of Congress on grounds that it would stop black construction workers from taking jobs from … Read more

Biden’s* 15.00/Hour Minimum Wage Order Will Help Union Bosses Fund Democrat Campaigns

April 28, 2021

by Steve MacDonald

Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA*) has Joe Signing another Executive Order. It’s meant to sound like lower-class goodness, but the only people Biden is helping are Union Bosses and Democrat politicians.