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.
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Notable Quote – Minimum Wage was born out of Racism
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
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.
Minimum Wage – A Cute Vignette…
This comes to us from a post at FEE (The Foundation for Economic Education) that features Mike Rowe (of “Dirty Jobs” fame). It talks about the real damage caused by the minimum wage.
A $15 Minimum Wage Would Make NH Poorer, Less Populous
Raising New Hampshire’s minimum wage to $15 an hour would cost the state nearly 6,000 jobs and more than 9,000 residents, raise consumer prices, reduce economic output, and cause serious harm to small businesses and the leisure and hospitality industries, a new report from New Hampshire Employment Security concludes.
More Damning Evidence: A Mandated Minimum Wage Hike Will Harm, Not Help
Eugenicists and racists, mostly Democrats, crafted the original minimum wage idea to harm the same people that our modern-day Democrats now claim would benefit. Their ideological forebearers had it right, so are their 21st-century social re-engineers ignorant, stupid, or evil?
Response to Natalie Kelly on ‘The Minimum Wage’ – You Are an Economic Illiterate, and Selfish
Natalie Kelly is holding her own employees as “wage hostages” because the State of NH won’t raise the minimum wage to $12/hour. Hey, if you are the owner, just raise your OWN employee’s wages – don’t wait for someone else to be that impetus for you.
Notable Quote – Why NOT hold politicians personally accountable for their decisions about the rest of us?
Prof. Don Boudreaux brings up an EXCELLENT idea / point about the miserable outcomes that may well come from really bad policies – can we hold Bernie (the socialist with three houses and millions made from his best selling books?) personally accountable? Reformatted, emphasis mine: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to punitively tax certain firms … Read more
Notable Quote – It’s Not About The Entry Level Wage, It’s The Entry Or Non-existent Skill Set
It is clear that the advocates of any arbitrary minimum wage hike believe that if you have a job, any job, you should automatically be able to support yourself and be installed into the Middle Class. They focus on the wage and do the “it’s not important” about whether someone’s skill set is up to the job.
Notable Quote – Black Teens Hit Hardest By Progressive Obsession with Minimum Wage
“The minimum-wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the most disadvantaged members of our society. The absence of work opportunities for many black youngsters does not only mean an absence of pocket money.”
Prof. Thomas Sowell on Uncommon Knowledge (2018) – Income Inequality
“Socialism is a great idea. That doesn’t mean that it is a great reality (16:09)” – And The evidence doesn’t match up to the ideology.
Notable Quote – Minimum Wage is RAAACIST (said by a Black man)
The minimum wage law is very cleverly misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero – and that is what many inexperienced and low-skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.
NH Senators Shaheen and Hassan “Vote Against” a 15.00 Per Hour Federal Minimum Wage
The Progressive bid to push the Federal Minimum Wage to fifteen dollars per hour hit a wall in the US Senate. The measure died 58-42 with the help of a handful of Democrats, including New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.
US Rep Ro Khanna: we Democrats don’t want small business that can’t pay $15/hour.
If US House Rep Ro Khanna’s attitude was around when TMEW and I ran our daycare center, he would have shut us down in a heartbeat. Without a care in the world for what had gone into saving an almost failed business at the time, we bought it. But here he is.
The Minimum Wage is Actually Zero
If you have no job, you have no wages. When that is the case you are getting the minimum wage. ZERO dollars per hour. Biden has a plan to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. If we go there it will kill over a million jobs according to the CBO. Do you trust your government?
Kroger Tests 100% Self-Check Out Store Ahead of Threatened National Minimum Wage Hike
The Congressional Budget Office, which can only tell you things based on what they are given, says a 15.00 national minimum wage will cost 1.4 million jobs. Sorry, it’ll cost a lot more than that. And that reaping is already underway.
Grocery Store Has to Close Two Locations after City Passes 4$/Hour Pay Hike to ‘Help’ Grocery Employees
The City of Long Beach, California, has elected to be a laboratory for political intrusion by Left-Wing ‘experts.’ The city passed a four-dollar an hour wage hike labeled “Hero Pay.” The added cost is forcing Kroeger to close two locations in the city.
Notable Quote – You’re Racist if You Support Minimum Wages
The racial effect of the minimum wage laws exist in the absence of racial preferences on behalf of employers. The minimum wage law gives firms effective economic incentive to seek to hire only the most productive employees, which means that firms are less willing to hire and/or train the least productive employee, which includes teenagers, … Read more
More Min. Wage Nitwittery from NH State Reps Jan Schmidt and Sherry Frost
We’ve got more min. wage nitwittery from NH state reps Jan Schmidt and Sherry Frost – Let me expand on that title for a fuller impact.
Biden and Ossoff Sitting in a Tree…
Jon Ossoff is the Democrat Georgia Senate candidate. Mr. Ossoff believes federal immigration officials should provide workplace protections for illegal immigrants. He specifically thinks that includes enforcement of a minimum wage. Ossoff made the argument at a campaign event over the weekend.